Continuing our theme of not having a theme (the news cycle sometimes suffers from great dialogue but poor plot), please find below a smattering of the news of roughly-last-week! As always, if we’ve missed something, let us know! But first, some Shameless Self-Promotion… The Open Education Conference starts tomorrow, October 16, in Vancouver, BC, and runs through Thursday. The Saylor […]
Month: October 2012
Monday Morning Digest: Learning Competency
What else this week but the whole future of education? (Our ambition is so narrow, we know.) Well, actually, it’s mostly this: the Chronicle of Higher Education did a roundup of their own on all things MOOC, and Sal Khan wrote a book (we’re assuming he didn’t use a tablet and a screen recorder to do […]
OER Newsletter – October 2012 (open. useful. fun.)
We’re going to make this a regular public gig (we’ve been circulating these internally for a year or so) — each month, we’ll serve up the latest and greatest of free and open learning resources, tools, and fun sites. We try to get the details right and to toss out thanks where they’re due; please […]
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Monday Morning Digest: Keeping Score
It’s Monday, the start of a whole new week! And it’s SAT season again — the time of year when countless bright-eyed juniors and panicky seniors first take the test that will determine the rest of their lives be a significant piece of their college applications. Scores are down: reading and writing both fell a point each, […]