From about 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT) on Wednesday, March 16th, students will be unable to log in to their Saylor Academy accounts, complete exams, etc.. During this time, we will permanently close down our eportfolio platform (eportfolio.saylor.org). After this maintenance, login and account management will be exclusively available via https://learn.saylor.org. For more details […]
Please join us for our Open Office Hours this Wednesday, March 9th at 3:00 PM EST! Our topic will be Open Courses for College Credit — we have chosen to highlight credit opportunities for open online learning in order to inform and inspire not just our current student community, but a wider community of parents, […]
If you keep up with some of the hot topics in our forums, you know that our Eportfolio system (eportfolio.saylor.org) and our student sign-in system (cas.saylor.org) have long been scheduled to be taken out of service, allowing you to manage your studies in a single location (learn.saylor.org). That day is nearly upon us. In two […]
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If you have been with Saylor Academy long enough (or have just poked around our site enough), you will know that open educational resources (OER) have been at the heart of our courses from the very beginning. We use OER for our learning materials as much as feasible and our courses themselves can be remixed […]
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Wherever you turn in the media, you hear that refrain: American Government is broken. Not so! Well…it was. But we fixed it! Here’s what happened: large gaps appeared when the “checkpoint” widgets in POLSC232 went down; most browsers were issuing a security warning and refusing to display the content. We learned of this from several […]