Here are some of the better links that landed on my desk over the past month. If you’re hungry for more, you can explore past OER newsletters or take a look at our Resources and Tools features. If you liked this page, share it! And, of course, if you know of something I missed, do […]
Read More… from March Miscellany: 17 Resources (Or So) for Those in The Know
Hello Kelly, thanks for taking the time to let us and our readers get to know you! We’ll get started with our first question (it’s an easy one): What have you been up to with the Saylor Foundation? I have worked as a peer reviewer and also as a consulting professor to complete several peer review […]
Read More… from Educator Snapshot: Kelly Gordon, M.S. Chemistry
This post is by Sarah Foregger, Ph.D., a consultant for the Saylor Foundation in the Communication discipline. Dr. Foregger taught for several years at the University of San Diego and has worked in consulting since 2012. By Sarah Foregger, Ph.D. “We need not fear that democratizing knowledge will cheapen its worth.” In an article published […]
Following up on last week’s little treatise on the study skills miracle that is the second notebook (one for mess, the other for success), we’re dipping once again into the Old School’s bag of tricks. To wit: your every-day, plain-vanilla browser bookmark — a student emailed in support of this tool, and I agree: it can […]
Watch and see: young people have great ideas. The Conrad Foundation’s Spirit of Innovation Challenge is driven by this notion. It’s one that we at the Saylor Foundation share, which is why we’ve chosen to be a 2013 partner for SOIC. In this competition, 13-18 year olds design “commercially viable products or services to address issues of […]