by Marissa Citro on May 23, 2013 in Like-minded Organizations, News & Events
So how do we take a bunch of OER and make it into a Saylor course? Course Designer Ryan McPherson knows the recipe well. He has helped design and perfect our BUS 210 and COMM 102 courses. And tomorrow, he will be presenting and spreading the word at the Innovations in Online Learning Conference 2013, in San, Antonio, TX, USA. His presentation is title Saylor University: Bringing Order to Chaos in Open Educational Resources.
Quick look:
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by Marissa Citro on May 20, 2013 in Monday Morning Digest, News & Events
Good morning and happy Monday! Today we are going to travel around the world – in way less than 80 days. Come with us in our hot-air balloon, bring your coffee too! Take a short a break from your Monday Morning routine and explore the world of ed. tech.
We begin in the U.K., England to be exact.
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by Sean Connor on May 15, 2013 in Courses, News & Events
You’ve probably seen this already, and we haven’t exactly gone to great lengths to hide it, but today it’s official:
Our first batch of K-12 courses, aligned to Common Core State Standards and built to be as open as possible, have been released.
None of us is happier than Angelyn Pinter, who’s been working non-stop on this since the middle of last year. We’ll be sharing more thoughts on the program this week and next, but here’s the quick version:
- Ideal for teachers, parents, students, homeschools
- Vetted, organized, well-structured content
- 3 Math, 1 ELA, 1 Common Core primer live now
- Full set of 6-12 + AP-style ELA and Math coming soon
- K-5 and additional subjects in the future
Let us know if how you plan to use these, what you’d like to see, and share with your parent/teacher/homeschool friends!
by Sean Connor on May 14, 2013 in Courses, News & Events, Opinion
Today, we’re releasing BUS305: Small Business Management on our iTunes U channel. And that got us thinking: variations on the word “entrepreneur” show up 137 times.
But entrepreneurship doesn’t come easy, and it doesn’t come cheap.
Back in April, our trustee, Michael Saylor, shared some of his thoughts on getting started in business:
“You could call me a risk-taking entrepreneur, but the truth of the matter is I got incredibly lucky on two fronts….I got this very lucky access to a skill, and I showed up with no debt, and the combination of having a skill and having no debt emboldened me to take a risk and the result is today we have…3500 employees. That building, none of those jobs, nothing we do would exist had I either not gotten extremely lucky or been in debt when I graduated from college.” [
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Compare that to this quote from a recent blog post at The New York Times:
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by Marissa Citro on May 13, 2013 in Monday Morning Digest, News & Events
Good morning and happy Monday! This week we look at the perceived roles and values of the uses of technology in education. Technology’s many advances have helped shape the world that we learn from and live in today. But how will it shape our future?
Today, we begin as most children do, with the wonderful world of pre-school. Pre-school and pre-kindergarten (aka: pre-k) classrooms have always been filled with crayons, finger paints, toy instruments, miniature firetrucks-ways that encourage students to put their energy into hands-on and fun activities.
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