On October 16th Alana Harrington, Executive Director of Saylor.org, presented at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Alana’s presentation, titled Making Open Courseware Count, explored how students are using Saylor.org courses to improve their lives. Here is an excerpt from the presentation summary: Over the past year, we’ve found that our courseware attracts […]
Month: November 2012
The Big Picture: A World Map of OER Initiatives
This one’s filed under “ideas we wish we’d had.” The world OER community has grown a lot in the 10 years (to the extent one can measure these things) of its existence. But who are we? Where are we? Who have we yet to meet, to partner with? Enter Alberta’s Athabasca University, which is hosting […]
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OER Newsletter – November 2012
No Monday Morning Digest this week. Instead, a new resources newsletter and an invitation to step back and look at some of the stories you may have missed last week: Study Groups are now LIVE in ePortfolio! (Friday) Brand new: Professional Development area of study! (Thursday) Infographic: the Open Textbook Challenge (Wednesday) A whole slew of news and […]
Study Groups are now LIVE in ePortfolio!
Have you noticed anything…new…in the ePortfolio? The title of the post kind of gives it away, doesn’t it? Okay, so we aren’t great at surprises, but we are absurdly pleased to announce a new element that promises to add real dimension to the ePortfolio: integrated study groups! When we launched the ePortfolio back in April, […]
Brand new: Professional Development area of study!
Not too long ago, we announced the new Communications area of study. We added a tile to our homepage, and we were oh…so…close to glorious rectangularity. Today, we are pleased to announce that we have achieved that goal with the addition of the Professional Development area of study. You can check it out here. Now, […]
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