By aggregating resources and standardizing metadata from OER content providers, the site supports knowledge sharing and access to teaching and learning materials, strategies, and curricula online.

Finally, ISKME's research revealed the role that collaboration plays in supporting the creation of open educational resources.

The authoring environment produces OER that is accessible using a broad range of assistive technology devices such as screen readers.

Starting in 2011, OER Commons provides an embedded Common Core State Standards alignment tool and Achieve OER Rubric to support state-level curriculum committees as well as individual instructors to review content for quality and alignment and to collaboratively address gaps in content collections.

[10] ISKME was named an Education Laureate by the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation in 2007 for OER Commons.

[11] In December 2010, ISKME was named a finalist in the Qatar Foundation World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards for its OER Commons teacher professional development programs.

[12] In 2011, ISKME won the Award for Bodies which Influence Policy from the Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL),[13] a consortium that includes UNESCO, the International Council for Open and Distance Education, the European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning, and several European universities.