The free education project of The Saylor Foundation, from its very beginning, has been committed to open educational resources (OER). We also committed early on to an…er, ambitious…slate of courses — 241, to be exact. To get there, we had to source great content from all over, working hard to gather up open resources when possible, […]
Month: January 2013
A Students’ Bill of Rights — Joining the Conversation
On December 14, 2012, work began on A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age, published today across multiple platforms. The declarations are quite appealing, if generally unsurprising, and in whole the document neatly outlines principles, young and old, that might inspire the politics of teaching and learning in this hyper-connected century. […]
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Course o’ the Week – PRDV103 Available on iTunes U
Just got a call for a job interview? Are those classic “interview nerves” keeping you up at night the night before? Then take a deep breath and be sure to study our PRDV103: Interviewing Skills course (a quick one…3 hours…hey, you can’t sleep anyway!) before your next interview. Third in our 4-course Job Search Skills Program, […]
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Monday Morning Digest: MOOCs are Spreading like Wildfire
Good Morning and happy Monday! We start off today with a look at the spread of MOOCs. Economic woes have hit everyone, including higher education. MOOCs (and some other unifying ideas) have been slowly but surely becoming a real solution for many colleges and universities. First, Inside Higher Ed‘s article proposes MOOCs and more technology in […]
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We Love Resources — Memrise!
True confession time: I have explored, but not signed up for, Memrise. And lest I inadvertently mislead anyone, this lovely web app is not openly licensed or open source to the best of my knowledge. So why am I sharing it here, on a Saylor.org blog, where we love to talk about OER and open access and Creative […]