Because the mission of the Saylor Foundation is to make education freely available to all, we’re continuously looking for outlets to post our educational materials and expand our reach. When we first heard about GoodSemester earlier this year, we were intrigued by their model – and knew it was the channel for our materials. We […]
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Today’s blog post comes from Kevin Carey, the Director of Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation. On May 9, 2012, Carey attended the College Affordability and Innovation Roundtable, an event hosted by Aneesh Chopra, former U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration and Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia; Michael Saylor, Chairman, […]
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Attention educators: Are you looking for an easy way to create and organize units, lessons, and courses for the next school year? Want to share your lessons with other teachers around the globe? OER Commons has just the application for you! Yesterday, OER Commons announced the arrival of ISKME’s Open Author, a cloud-based Open Educational […]
Next up in our professor profile series, meet Dr. Chad Redwing! Hi Chad! Please tell our readers about yourself. My family and I live on a small ranch in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of Northern California. Professionally, I have worked at the high school, college and university levels in both teaching and administration. Currently, I […]
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Late last year, we blogged about California State Senator Darrell Steinberg’s ambitious plans to introduce digital textbooks into the California State higher education system, with a proposal to give students free access to texts for 50 core undergraduate classes in California’s three-tier public higher education system: University of California, California State University, and California Community […]
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