Happy Monday to you! With the start of a new school year, last week there were a flurry of news announcements related to textbooks: specifically, a number of organizations making waves in the free and low-cost textbook market. Also, it’s worth noting that Kevin Carey was on CSPAN last week to talk about MOOCs. The […]
This week’s digest is chock-full of articles covering a wide array of education-related topics and submitted to me by a number of our staff members. What I find most interesting is the juxtaposition of two articles – one stating why we shouldn’t be putting education online because it widens the gap between the financially/educationally-privileged and […]
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Want to help further research in the field of open education? Then, respond to this short survey from MIT OpenCourseWare! We received the survey via email from MIT OCW, which read: A message from Dr. Curtis Bonk: “My research team and I from the Instructional Systems Technology Department at Indiana University are conducting a study […]
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Continuing our Consulting Professor Profile series, I’d like to introduce you to John W. Rooney, Ph.D., J.D. Hi John, and thank you for taking to the time answer a few questions! Can you please tell our readers what you’re currently working on for the Saylor Foundation? Certainly! I’m currently putting the finishing touches on […]
Read More… from Saylor.org Professor Profile: Dr. John W. Rooney
“This is AWESOME! This is, like, as close as it gets to ‘in person’!” These were among the first words that I heard from Josh Lipovetsky, a 20 year-old Saylor.org student, studying from his home right outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I first saw Josh when he posted a video about Saylor.org on his website Optimistic […]
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