Yesterday, the Creative Commons blog posted on Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies This post is right up our open education alley, so we’re recommending it and have pulled a few juicy bits to quote below. After some treatment of “free” vs. “open” and “libre” vs. “gratis”, the author (Alek Tarkowski) gets to some issues even […]
Back in September of last year, we asked people on our email list just one question: ▸ Considering your experience as a whole, how would you rate Saylor Academy? From 750 people who got back to us, here are the numbers (1 is a “very low” rating; 10 is “very high”): 1 2 3 4 5 6 […]
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Since 2008 or so, Saylor Academy has built over 300 online courses. We know what we’re doing. But you know what they say about the best laid plans…well, sometimes things get out of hand, even for old pros like us. Enrollment for this course, which launched earlier today, has been closed to ensure the safety […]
We currently have some important roles we need to fill at Saylor Academy. These contract jobs are temporary but a huge part of our success — just check out the list of our course consultants and reviewers to get a sense of how important they are to Saylor Academy. Specifically, we are looking to hire […]
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If you missed our Open Education Week edition of our occasional office hours, we focused on using open courses for college credit, with an intended audience of both students and educators. The archived video is below. The main takeaways we hope we conveyed are these: We now have 22 courses recommended for over 60 credits […]