ISKME

ISKME Announces “Big Ideas Fest 2013 Innovation in Action” Award

Half Moon Bay non-profit hosts education stakeholders at annual action-oriented event, incubates new ideas in learning

New report identifies first steps in supporting cloud-based accessibility, taking into account physical as well as cognitive needs

Driven in part by changes in technology and student expectations, the landscape of music teaching and learning is rapidly transforming.

ISKME announces first "Big Ideas Fest Innovation in Action" Award, designed to stimulate creativity and collaboration in education, to Nirvan Mullick and the Imagination Foundation for their work on Caine's Arcade.

ISKME's OER Commons and Open Author translated into Arabic; including system for educators to save and share content, as well as to build, remix, and translate content for Arabic speakers and those who want to learn Arabic language and culture.

New project to help people with disabilities personalize a "one-size -fits-one" approach to accessibility, harnessing global networks and cloud services to deliver appropriate solutions to users anywhere, anytime, and on any device or platform

ISKME appoints Mark Milliron, chancellor of WGU Texas, and Jonah Houston, senior designer at IDEO to Board. Current ISKME board member Lance Izumi, Director of Education Studies at Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, elected as Board Chair.

One hundred seventy-five teachers, innovators, edupreneurs, and policy makers with big ideas for transforming K-20 education are about to converge at the third annual Big Ideas Fest, Dec. 4 through 7, in Half Moon Bay, CA.

Mark Milliron, the Board Chair for the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), will become the Deputy Director for Higher Education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, effective February 1, 2010.