Monday Morning Digest: Questioning Free Education Providers

Here are some of last week’s headlines: Berkeley Joins ‘EdX’ Effort to Offer Free Open Courses The University of California at Berkeley is the third institution to join EdX, which also includes MIT and Harvard. What’s interesting about this is that UC Berkeley will not be contributing any money to EdX – instead, they will […]

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Wikipedia and Academia team up for special event

Wikimedia UK, a charity supporting Wikipedia, is inviting you to the Education Conference run on 5-6 September 2012 in Leicester, UK. A day-and-a-half event will be looking at Wikipedia and related projects in terms of educational practice including open content and global participation. It’s a chance to find out more about this, talk about innovative work in your […]

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Upcoming Webinar: Leveraging the Saylor.org Platform in Your Course

Attention course designers and educators: want to learn how you can best utilize the Saylor.org platform for your own course? Then check out the second webinar in our series entitled Leveraging the Saylor.org Platform in Your Course!  We’ll have Saylor staff on hand to walk you through some of the latest innovations and features on […]

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Monday Morning Digest: Holy MOOCs!

Here are some of the top headlines from last week: Universities Reshaping Education on the Web Coursera announces that about a dozen major research universities will be joining their cause of offering open online courses (MOOCs). The folks behind Coursera are very interested with what can be done with certification instead of offering degrees. This […]

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Saylor.org + Excelsior College = Low Cost College Credit!

Looking for a pathway to low cost college credit? We’ve got you covered! This morning, we were excited to announce a brand new partnership with Excelsior College that will allow students to study select courses on Saylor.org (for free, of course!) – and then take an Excelsior College Examination or UExcel Exam that aligns with […]

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