Saylor OTC Textbooks Now Available in iTunes Bookstore

The Saylor Foundation is excited to announce that two of its Open Textbook Challenge winning textbooks, Mathematical Analysis I by Elias Zakon and Elementary Linear Algebra by Kenneth Kuttler, are now available for free download in the iTunes Bookstore. The textbooks correspond to MA241: Real Analysis and MA211: Linear Algebra I, respectively. The books are […]

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2012 CGI America: Turning Ideas into Action

The Clinton Global Initiative held its annual “domestic focused” working conference, aptly named “CGI America”, earlier this month.  I was honored to represent The Saylor Foundation and join nearly 1,000 private, public, and non-profit thought leaders at the event in Chicago to commit to action to help tackle some of our country’s biggest challenges.  Of […]

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The College Affordability and Innovation Roundtable

Today’s blog post comes from Kevin Carey, the Director of Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation. On May 9, 2012, Carey attended the College Affordability and Innovation Roundtable, an event hosted by Aneesh Chopra, former U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration and Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia; Michael Saylor, Chairman, […]

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OER Commons Presents ISKME’s Open Author

Attention educators: Are you looking for an easy way to create and organize units, lessons, and courses for the next school year? Want to share your lessons with other teachers around the globe? OER Commons has just the application for you! Yesterday, OER Commons announced the arrival of ISKME’s Open Author, a cloud-based Open Educational […]

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UC President: “I don’t think everyone should go [to college].”

Interviewed yesterday on American Public Media’s Marketplace program, Mark Yudof, president of the University of California system, discussed the fiscal health of higher education in his state. The California state legislature has approved a budget and the governor has pitched a ballot proposition to raise taxes to pay for public education – including higher education, but the […]

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