Good afternoon, and happy Monday! After having celebrated our independence over the weekend, we are back from vacation and ready to give you another wonderful edition of MMD. But since it’s the afternoon and we know that your Mondays can get busy very fast, this week’s MMD will be a little brief. For this week, […]
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We’re wrapping up week three of our Saylor Summer School experiment. We surveyed our three student cohorts to learn a bit more about them and why they signed up for the torture pleasure of ten weeks of online learning. We share some of the results (pictures! world map!) below. If you’d like to sign up […]
Today is Independence Day in the US, so we’re all off celebrating, each in our own way (although food, family, and friends will likely be common themes). If online learning is on your agenda, we’d of course suggest our Introduction to U.S. History, among others, and you can’t go wrong with Joanne Freeman’s American Revolution lectures (peppered […]
Save the date! We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be presenting a double-feature at the celebrated 2013 OpenEd Conference in Park City, Utah. We’ll be showing off our shiny new K-12 full-curriculum OER initiative and teaming up with Mark Michalisin of Excelsior College to talk about using OER aligned to exams to connect students to college credit. Of course, you […]
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Trivia Question (No Cheating!): Why is July 1st such an important day in the history of evolutionary biology? The answer is at the end of this post, but if you would rather figure it out the hard way — while learning more about how species and populations develop and interact with each other and their […]
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