Saylor.org

The Saylor Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established by Michael J. Saylor, founder and CEO of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy and the Foundation’s sole trustee. Mr. Saylor created the Foundation because he had a very simple, very earnest, and very bold idea: Education should be free.

Changes in technology are making the distribution of information faster, easier, and cheaper. At the same time, high-quality educational materials are becoming increasingly digital and easier to access around the world. Accordingly, the Saylor Foundation is harnessing technology to make education free via www.saylor.org.

The Saylor Foundation is pushing the open education movement forward and creating greater access to Open Educational Resources (OER). Saylor.org features over 200 free, self-paced, automated courses. While we do not confer degrees, we do offer the knowledge equivalent of thirteen popular disciplines.

We hire credentialed professors to create course blueprints and to locate, vet, and organize OER materials into a structured and intuitive format. Our consulting professors also create original OER content and link to freely posted copyrighted materials to fill in any gaps. Each course culminates with a final exam, and students receiving a passing grade can download a certificate of completion.

Our current focus is on the undergraduate college level with the goal of producing high course and program completion rates. We intend to focus on the primary, secondary, and post-graduate levels in the future.

We’re excited to work with the OER community to help pave the way for students to obtain a quality education at no cost.

To read more about the Saylor Foundation, click on the links below.

Our Trustee and Team
Our Permissions Initiative
Our Open Textbook Challenge
Frequently Asked Questions
Media Kit
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