Good morning and happy Monday! For this week, there are many different movements occurring in Ed. Tech. and higher ed., and we’re here to shed some light. The ideas behind these movements range from encouraging offline interaction, to too many teachers paying out of pocket for digital content, to some different movements that apply to higher […]
Month: June 2013
CUNY/BA Uses Saylor Summer School to Give Students Credit
What’s The Buzz? One the things that most excites us about our Saylor Summer School project is that our students can potentially pick up some credit through one of our partner schools or many others that are willing to take a look at NCCRS-recommended exams. Our friends at CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies are helping to spread […]
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We Love Resources: NextGenU
Calling all health students, practitioners, scientists, and those of you who are just curious! Students ask from time to time about what courses we have in the health fields, and the answer, we’re sorry to report, is none as yet. So if you’re interested in taking a free course about how climate change affects one’s […]
Educator Snapshot: Eric Clark
Today, we’re here with Eric Clark, one of our Real World Math and K-12 Course Designers…and our newest addition to our Educator Snapshot series! Hello Eric! Thank you for coming out here to speak with us today. Hello Marissa, my pleasure. So let’s get started! What work have you done with the Saylor Foundation? The […]
Saylor Summer School 2013: 10 Weeks, 9 Credits, No Excuses.
We’re pleased to announce an exciting — and experimental! — summer project. Here’s the gist: for the next ten weeks, we’re going to run sessions for three of our best courses — with the possibility of getting real, portable college credit (yeah, with caveats*). We’d call it a MOOC, but that’s soooo 2012, don’t you […]
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