The certificates formerly known as “diplomas” are back with a new name and a refreshed certificate template. We are calling the course sequences “Programs” and each program is further differentiated as a [full] curriculum or a specialiazation. Here is an example certificate for the Customer Service Specialization: You can find the new page here: www.saylor.org/certificate-programs … Read More …
Well, we went for the hat trick of career/education fairs — adding a third outing to our recent habit of stepping out of the office for some quality face time with potential students. Last week, Devon and I forged through the morning rain to attend the CareerUp Expo, just a few blocks away from our … Read More …
We emerged from behind our computers once again for the 2nd Annual City of Alexandria Employee Higher Education Fair, just down the road from us in Alexandria, Virginia. We are proud to be among the couple dozen schools and other organizations invited to share our college credit opportunities with employees of the City of Alexandria. … Read More …
We have updated our privacy policy to include a new section about our implementation of Facebook Pixel, a tool that lets us connect our ads on Facebook to events on our site. In short, we can learn how well our ads are working, reach people on Facebook most likely to be interested in our courses, … Read More …
Working at Saylor Academy usually means working from a computer in our offices — which is great, because it allows us to connect with students anywhere in the world. But we welcome any opportunity to get out in our city and meet prospective students face to face, as we were able to do this past … Read More …
On June 21-22, 2017, Saylor Academy will host the Saylor Higher Education Summit, an invite-only event that will bring together decision-makers and influencers impacting the post-secondary education space. We invite senior-level higher education administrators, nonprofit leaders, workforce development/e-learning executives, and policymakers to register or request an invitation. The Saylor Higher Education Summit will explore ways … Read More …
We are very happy to officially announce nine courses newly recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education (ACE®). Check out today’s press release for the full details: Saylor Academy Expands Tuition-Free Direct Credit Program to 91 Credits With these new recommendations, our zero-tuition Direct Credit program now offers 31 college-level courses that … Read More …
We are in the process of re-tooling our diploma pathways program. Specifically, we are changing terminology to eliminate “diploma” and “major” and “minor”. Until we are ready to unveil the re-vamped information, our page at www.saylor.org/diplomas will redirect visitors to this blog post. Here is the most important thing to note: this program is not … Read More …
One of the recurring questions we get is whether we have a mobile app. Try out Saylor Academy on the Moodle Mobile app and let us know what you think!
Our discussion forums, based on the open-source Discourse software, got a quiet update today — we moved from version 1.5 to 1.6. A big thanks to John for quietly, quickly, and successfully making this happen earlier today! The major changes can be found at the Discourse project’s blog, here; highlights include stronger security, a new … Read More …
We’d like to announce one recent change you might not have noticed but that many will be glad to see: the waiting period between attempts for regular certificate exams is now 7 days rather than 14 days. Why 7 days? Well, our resident political scientist set up a ranked-order* voting poll so that we could … Read More …
Can Saylor Academy save college students $1 million in tuition in 2016? In April, we reported on completion of exams for credit recommended courses, in which we estimated confirmed student tuition savings to date of more than $250,000 — that’s about $2,000 per student! With this post, we wanted to share a couple graphs to … Read More …
Our community discussion forums are powered by open source software called Discourse. If you (ahem!) haven’t visited or joined our forums, you can do so right now: Visit the forums Join the forums We are now up to date with Version 1.5 of Discourse and wanted to let you know about new features and what … Read More …
We have just rolled out a new student handbook, which you can view any time at saylor.org/handbook Those who have been around long enough to be quite familiar with Saylor Academy won’t notice too much that has changed, but here’s the news: We have removed references to the ePortfolio. We have clarified guidelines on maintaining … Read More …
Yesterday, the Creative Commons blog posted on Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies This post is right up our open education alley, so we’re recommending it and have pulled a few juicy bits to quote below. After some treatment of “free” vs. “open” and “libre” vs. “gratis”, the author (Alek Tarkowski) gets to some issues even … Read More …