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Creative Commons Open Business Models Initiative – Call for Participation

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Creative Commons seeks to hear from businesses that use or might use open models and Creative Commons licensing to support their business models. Under this initiative, businesses will both contribute and receive feedback, advice, etc. on achieving sustainability with open models. Clearly, the Saylor Academy’s model depends on open content, both curated and created, which […]

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Partnering with Accredible to build interactive portfolio certificates

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Update November 2017: you can see an example certificate and current features at https://www.saylor.org/accredible-certificates With Accredible, we have just announced our work to build the next generation of course certificates. As Accredible says on their post, Accredible’s certificates go beyond the standard PDF certificate, showing what a student has learned by embedding evidence and insights into […]

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Chemistry mini-courses on iTunes U

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Right in time to help celebrate Engineer’s Week (happy week to our engineer friends out there…to everyone else: have you hugged an engineer yet today?), we are releasing some STEM gems to the iTunes U community in the form of single-serving, introductory-level chemistry courses. First up is Matter and Measurements, followed by The Atom. You […]

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Office Hours Recap: February 2015

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We held our first proper “office hours” Hangout on Air on Wednesday with staff representing the education, technology, and community facets of our foundation. Watch the video below and scroll down for the outline of what we covered. Stay tuned for our next office hours, subject TBD, which will be shorter, more focused, and easier […]

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Update: An (even more affordable) open course option for the ASBA

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Thanks, in part, to changes last year in some of the tuition options at our partner school Thomas Edison State College, using Saylor Academy courses to help achieve an Associate in Science in Business Administration (ASBA) degree can be over $500 cheaper for New Jersey residents and nearly $2,000 cheaper for out-of-state students. The need-to-knows can […]

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