Individual, self-guided learners are the primary audience for our courses, but programs, institutions and individuals educating others account for a significant proportion of the people we reach. As a nonprofit, understanding our impact is crucial for us to spread the word and enlist support. By learning about how programs and institutions benefit from our materials, we can more […]
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Returning students are unlikely to go straight to our homepage, opting for their eportfolio accounts or courses instead. But students who log in on our courses site, Learn, are unlikely to have much ongoing use for the homepage there. Sure, it’s nice to feel welcome. It’s less nice, though, to be asked day after day if […]
Thanksgiving, a day of both gratitude and [food] consumption, is followed hard upon by the retail “holidays” of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. (Small Business Saturday is nestled quietly between.) Today is something a bit different: #GivingTuesday, a “national day of generosity” and a great day to invite our community to help Saylor Academy finish […]
Tomorrow is (American) Thanksgiving, a holiday that we celebrate mainly with family and food. As the name of the celebration implies, there is also a tradition of gratitude — reflection on all that we are thankful for and a turning away, however temporarily, from the problems that we face, however large or small. Because we […]
For the last couple of months, you may have noticed that both your in-progress and completed courses – non-legacy courses, that is – are synced from your Saylor Academy ePortfolio to learn.saylor.org. Syncing that information between the two systems turned out to be a bit of a challenge. Moodle (the LMS we use for learn.saylor.org) […]