An announcement* from our friends: The School of Open is launching beginning this Monday for Open Education Week, March 11-15. A community of volunteers from P2PU, Creative Commons, Open.Michigan, and Wikimedia will offer free online courses on copyright, CC licenses, Wikipedia, open science, open data, open video formats, and more. The main site has the digs on […]
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Filed under Things That Really Get Our Goat (actually, not really; that isn’t one of our blog categories…but pretend). The Chronicle‘s recent article “Caps on Data Use Dim Online Learning’s Bright Future” is missing a big part of the story in open licensing and open media formats. We don’t blame them, because in all the buzz about new-style […]
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David’s done it again. You might remember us mentioning our first appified* course (“We Love Resources: Special ME102 App Edition“) a couple weeks ago, and now we’re happy to chat up one of our courses that flies under the radar: Management Information Systems. This course “bridges the gap between computer science and the well-known business […]
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Still confused on how to calculate that annoying equation? Can’t seem to wrap your head around derivatives? Then cheer up, because MA101-EXC Single-Variable Calculus I is now available on our iTunes U channel. Straight from Isaac Newton, Archimedes, and Gottfried Leibniz to your iPad (or iPhone if you prefer), single variable calculus will break down those complicated functions and […]
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Good Morning and happy Monday! As we move on into March, and the time of spring here at Saylor, we look at how some in the world of Ed. Tech. have decided to link arms and tackle the sometimes arduous tasks of educating students, the masses and themselves. People are working together to provide more […]