The Saylor Foundation’s mission – to improve access to high-quality higher education worldwide – is shared by many notable organizations. To foster an understanding and awareness of these awesome institutions, from time to time we like to highlight these groups on the Saylor Journals. Today, we’ll look at the work that WiderNet is doing. At the […]
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Editor’s Note: This is our second installment of the The Saylor Journals – Saylor Student Profiles. These profiles provide an opportunity to meet the variety of people that are studying our courses. We hope that their experience will inspire you to take a new course! If you’re a Saylor.org student and would like to be […]
Last week, Saylor Foundation staff made the quick journey to the George Washington University over the weekend to participate in Wikimania 2012. To kick off the first day of sessions, we had the pleasure of hearing from Mary Gardiner, co-founder of the Ada Initiative and Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikimania is an annual conference […]
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Editor’s Note: Ever wonder who is taking Saylor.org courses? In interviews, presentations, and conversations, we’ve hinted at some of the profiles of Saylor.org students – which includes thousands of individuals from a variety of backgrounds – but we’ve never introduced our readers to any of them. That is, not until now. This blog post kicks […]
Here at the Saylor Foundation, we are eagerly awaiting the start of Wikimania 2012, this year’s worldwide conference on all things Wiki-related. This year the conference is being hosted in our hometown of Washington, DC, July 11th through 14th at the George Washington University. We are proud to announce our sponsorship of this exciting international […]