Student Savings Tops $500,000 with Saylor courses at University of Memphis. Like most students, Melanie Williams started down her path to a degree at the University of Memphis full of excitement and possibility. She enjoyed the academic life at Memphis and progressed into her final year. Then trouble arose. Hit with an unexpected financial crisis, […]
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A refreshed student dashboard: making progress!
We recently rolled out some changes to the student dashboard (the page you see when you first sign in to your Saylor Academy account). They’re pretty modest tweaks, but we think they make for a noticeably nicer experience. In particular, your course progress is now displayed alongside each course, and certificates you’ve earned are now […]
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Watch the keynotes and panels from the Saylor Higher Education Summit
On June 21st and 22nd, we brought together educators, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and non-profit leaders from around the world in Washington, DC, for our Higher Education Summit. The goal was to carry forward the conversation about education and credentialing for the next billion students worldwide — students who will be served by both traditional and […]
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Site maintenance June 4th
As part of a software update, our courses and materials at learn.saylor.org will be unavailable for several hours on Sunday, June 4th. We expect to have everything back in order by 3:00 PM EDT. If you would like to do some studying while the site is offline, you can use the Wayback Machine to view […]
Speaker Feature: Dr. Andrew Sears, City Vision University
Andrew Sears is the President of City Vision University, which is a nationally accredited online-only Christian university with the goal of providing radically affordable education. City Vision launched a four-year bachelor’s degree in Business for $5,000 (in total) targeting developing countries in partnership with Saylor Academy (http://web.cityvision.edu/saylor-qualifi/) and is developing a similar Computer Science degree. […]
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