Hello Ittay, thank you for taking the time to let us and our readers get to know you! We’ll jump right in with our first question: What have you been up to with the Saylor Foundation? I started off doing some review work on the course MA241 and some fine tuning of the accompanying exam. This […]
Month: February 2013
UnCollege – Fantasy, or Fantastic?
According to a recent interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Tech Therapy, a few years ago, Dale Stephens was a just another typical first semester freshman at Hendrick College. And yet, as a former home-schooled student, Stephens felt that his life in a classroom was missing something stimulating. This lack of a spark caused him to […]
Ensuring Public Access to Scientific Research
In May of last year, a petition was added to WhiteHouse.gov’s We the People site, requesting that the government of the United States “require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.” Much research that receives federal funding (which is to say, citizens’ tax dollars) is not subject to any kind […]
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Whither the OER Newsletter?
We are pleased to announce that yesterday’s OER Newsletter will be the last. Why “pleased”? Well, because it really isn’t going anywhere; we’re just going to improve on it a little. First, a brief history: the OER Newsletter began its run in private circulation; we used it to tell our academic consultants about resources we had […]
Course o’ the Week: ME101 Available on iTunes U
Distill mechanical engineering enough and you’ll end up with mathematics and physics (and we won’t wade into the argument of which one of those two is more elemental). Look closely, and you’ll find you’ve also wound up with a good bit of common sense. Engineering is whole-heartedly about real-world application and creative problem-solving, making it […]
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