Course O’ the Week – ECON305 Available on iTunes U

There’s no time like the present to dive into the study of public finance. We won’t speak for the rest of world (lest we reveal our ignorance), but the talk here in D.C. has been all “Fiscal Cliff this, Debt Ceiling that…” We don’t know what it all means, of course, but it seems like […]

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New Course: Sociology 101

Brand new, fresh out of the box, and available in our grab bag Electives area of study, we humbly present: SOC101: Introduction to Sociology A century and change after emerging as an academic discipline, sociology is still growing and improving its methods, helping us to make concrete our observations of society around us. From the […]

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OER Newsletter – January 2013

We’re going to aim to have these out mid-month from here on out; as always, if you’ve got links that belong in one of the categories below (or if we’re foolishly missing a category), drop us a line! See the end for more info on the credits. Open License KA Lite [BY-NC-SA 2.0] Historically, network […]

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Monday Morning Digest: Afternoon Edition; online learning is growing up

Happy Monday Everyone! This week we pose two questions, “How will the evolution of online learning and MOOCs affect higher education?” and “How will certification look like for free online courses?” We start off with a look at just how far online learning has come.  According to Tony Bates (see the first link below), online […]

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