We’ve had psychology courses on our site for a long time, much to the chagrin of sociology partisans, but the latter got a seat at the table back in January when we introduced SOC101 to everyone. Today, SOC101: Introduction to Sociology arrives on our iTunes U channel. A few things set this course apart: […]
Read More… from Introduction to Sociology now available on iTunes U
We made it to the weekend! It was an…interesting…week for the staff here at Saylor.org HQ as we battled first a relentless D.C. heatwave and then a network implosion. Half of our air conditioning gave up on us, driving staff to our upstairs digs — imagine when the best place to be on a day with […]
Read More… from Smorgasbord: Heat, Internet, Humanities, K12, Philanthropy, Economics, and Debt
Sometimes our work can feel close by, bounded by the river to the south, the High Street to the north, the snarls of downtown to the east, and the wilds of Virginia to the west — or even by the borders of a computer screen. The team behind the blog, social media, and the contact […]
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 […]