If you’re vigilant (nosy, bored, etc.), you’ve probably noticed that nearly all of our image credits here in the blog are labeled something like this: Photo credit: [owner] via photopin [license] There’s a pretty sweet tool behind that simple line of text, saving us plenty of headaches. We’re pretty serious about open licensing and attribution, but it can be a […]
The free education project of The Saylor Foundation, from its very beginning, has been committed to open educational resources (OER). We also committed early on to an…er, ambitious…slate of courses — 241, to be exact. To get there, we had to source great content from all over, working hard to gather up open resources when possible, […]
On December 14, 2012, work began on A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age, published today across multiple platforms. The declarations are quite appealing, if generally unsurprising, and in whole the document neatly outlines principles, young and old, that might inspire the politics of teaching and learning in this hyper-connected century. […]
Read More… from A Students’ Bill of Rights — Joining the Conversation
True confession time: I have explored, but not signed up for, Memrise. And lest I inadvertently mislead anyone, this lovely web app is not openly licensed or open source to the best of my knowledge. So why am I sharing it here, on a Saylor.org blog, where we love to talk about OER and open access and Creative […]
There’s no time like the present to dive into the study of public finance. We won’t speak for the rest of world (lest we reveal our ignorance), but the talk here in D.C. has been all “Fiscal Cliff this, Debt Ceiling that…” We don’t know what it all means, of course, but it seems like […]
Read More… from Course O’ the Week – ECON305 Available on iTunes U