For our next edition of our series of Saylor.org staff interviews, we spoke with Jenna Dawkins, one of our awesome Research Assistants. Hello Jenna. Hi. So why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself? Well, I’m Jenna. I’m a 22 year old GW Masters student, and am living and working in the DC Metro […]
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I recently had the opportunity to go through (a lot) of old papers and notes from elementary school, secondary school, and college. I saw years of attempting to stay organized: three-ring binders, portfolios, spiral notebooks, bound notebooks, index cards, loose papers, and the odd floppy disk. After nineteen years of schooling, I was just starting to […]
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When Jerry Maguire was forced out of his sports management agency that he helped build (it’s a fact) in a very public, humiliating way, he reminded some several dozen of his colleagues that “there is such a thing as manners; a way of treating people.” It was true then, and it’s true now: with colleagues, with clients, […]
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We’ve just launched our first CLEP-aligned course! The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP®) is a widely-recognized credit-by-exam program. According to The College Board’s website, 2,900 higher education institutions are willing to accept CLEP exams for credit. While our course is not endorsed by The College Board, we’ve carefully re-worked our Intro to American Politics course (POLSC231) into POLSC232: American […]
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Our friends at Thomas Edison State College (one of our college credit pathways partners; learn more here and here), are looking for an Assessment Strategist for Open Courseware and Competency-Based Education. The person hired “will be responsible for exploring opportunities for developing assessments and granting credit in the emerging area of open educational resources, open courseware, […]
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