or, The Economics of Individual Non-purchasing Decisions Undeniably clever titling aside, the news is this: Peter Tsigaris, Associate Professor of Economics at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia (who, disclaimer, also happens to consult for us), is using Saylor.org materials next term to support his Introductory Microeconomics course. “I did not order a textbook for […]
No, the title isn’t a Zen koan — although, if you do obtain some enlightenment from reading on, we’ll gladly accept credit. Rather, we’d like to pick your minds about something. See, lately, we’ve had a lot more readers find (tweet, share, comment on) The Saylor Journals…and that is awesome. As more people swing around and […]
This post is an in-case-you-missed-it (ICYMI) special. Maybe that’s another way of saying “slow news day”; we won’t quibble, but we do like to think we’re transcript-half-full kind of people. Without further ado, here are some of our stories you may have missed in the past few days… Credit: tomhe via photopin cc by-nc-sa 2.0 […]
Apologies if you’ve caught this already in the social media streams…this is just to share that we’ve made a print-edition debut in the Chronicle of Higher Education: A Dot-Com Entrepreneur’s Wild Ambition: Drive Education Costs to Zero For our part, we’re just thrilled to mention it. But for anyone interested in the origins of Saylor.org, […]
Read More… from Saylor’s “Wild Ambition” – Now in Chronicle Flavor.
In the first offering below, Peter Harsha of the Computing Research Association clues us in to the idea that fluency in computers is about more than what we might pick up in high school (or even college) classes; it’s about “knowing…how to use a computer to solve problems.” Folks once thought that personal computing was […]
Read More… from Monday Morning Digest: Learn Computer Literacy Online? Nah, It’ll never work.