Black Friday, Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday — one of these things is not like the others

Friends, we live in times when Black Friday starts on Thursday and runs through Cyber Monday…which then runs through the rest of the week. With that in mind, let us begin by confirming that, to our way of thinking, #GivingTuesday starts and ends today. And on this just-once-a-year Tuesday, we ask of you this: if […]

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CANCELED – Site maintenance Saturday 12p to 4p

UPDATE: Maintenance is canceled for this weekend entirely. Any students planning to take exams should feel free to do so without restriction. In the spirit of breaking things to make them better, we will be performing maintenance on our CAS (login) and ePortfolio platforms on Saturday, 29 November, from 12pm to 4pm Eastern Standard Time […]

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What we’re thankful for this Thanksgiving (and not just our days off)

We will close our offices from this afternoon through Sunday to celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends over the next few days, although of course the free learning goes on! Speaking of learning, is there a word for sesquicentennial-plus-one? That’s how long the streak of the official Thanksgiving holidays in the U.S. has gone unbroken, […]

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Quick reactions from Open Ed 2014

Some of our team spent Wednesday through Friday of last week at the “family reunion” of the open education community, the 2014 Open Education Conference (just down the road from our offices, as luck would have it). In addition to sponsoring, volunteering, and presenting in several sessions, we spent the days hearing a few score speakers […]

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