Back in November, I blogged about the first annual Open Education awareness week, set to run from March 5 – 10, 2012. I feel as though I’ve blinked my eyes, and it is upon us already! That’s right, Open Education Week is next week, kicking off on Sunday with a reception at the 2012 Innovations […]
Month: February 2012
2012 Connexions Conference: Recap Part II
Yesterday, I posted a recap of the OpenStax College Launch presentation that we attended as part of last week’s 2012 Connexions Conference. As I mentioned, that presentation was one out of two presentations that were most applicable to our Saylor.org students and fans. Today, I want to quickly run through the second presentation that many […]
2012 Connexions Conference: Laying the Foundation for Significant Change
Last week, Alana Harrington and I had the opportunity to travel to Houston, Texas for the 2012 Connexions Conference. This was our first time attending this conference, and let me tell you – it did not disappoint! The daylong conference was so chock-full of information and excellent presentations that it could have easily run across […]
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Sharing Saylor.org Courses Across The Internet
Here at the Saylor Foundation, our mission is to make education freely available to all. Our primary focus is curating college-level courseware and making these courses freely available on www.saylor.org. However, we also want to ensure that individuals – students, professors, and anyone interested in polishing his or her knowledge in various subject areas – […]
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Open Textbook Challenge Wave I Winners: Fourth Textbook Released!
Late last week, we announced the fourth and final text to be accepted in Wave I of our Open Textbook Challenge! Mathematical Analysis I, a text written by the late Elias Zakon of the University of Windsor, was submitted by Dr. Bradley Lucier thanks to a joint effort between Lucier and Zakon’s daughter Tamara Zakon. […]
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