Release: Saylor.org Web Traffic Increases 500% Year-to-Year

I know what you’re thinking: ‘So, a news release about old news. Riiight.’ Well, yes, but here’s the thing: we’re summing up some of the great things that happened in 2012, especially in the last half of last year. Among other things, we: Launched a successful provider channel on iTunes U; Smashed through our ‘Original 241’ […]

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Course o’ the Week: POLSC101 Available on iTunes U

Ah, politics. An awfully messy business, often enough, and replete (if all its critics are to be believed) with greed, treachery, and (worst of all!) inefficiency. The topic is always good for a lively conversation…or a fight — sometimes, unfortunately, quite literally so. But politics is really just governance and policy-making…sometimes with the people, sometimes without them, sometimes effectively, […]

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Announcing: The Saylor Foundation Digital Education Conference

The Saylor Foundation Digital Education Conference is the venue for those with their heads in the Cloud and their feet on the ground — the people who unite funding, technology, and content to build education for all. This two-day program is slated for April 11-12, 2013 in the Greater DC area.  The conference will feature […]

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Monday Morning Digest: Further Developments and Investments

Good Morning Everyone! Hope that your Monday has started off well! For us, we start off with how universities (and also private firms) think that awarding credits for MOOCs might help recruitment. Also, the push for professional development on how to create such a massive course is also in the works for Coursera. If you’re […]

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We Love Resources – Photo Pin

If you’re vigilant (nosy, bored, etc.), you’ve probably noticed that nearly all of our image credits here in the blog are labeled something like this: Photo credit: [owner] via photopin [license] There’s a pretty sweet tool behind that simple line of text, saving us plenty of headaches. We’re pretty serious about open licensing and attribution, but it can be a […]

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