Have you noticed anything different about our homepage? Okay, yes…we updated a couple of the images in the banner, but not that. Further up. No? Huh…let’s try it this way: Yup! We are pleased to announce a new Area of Study: Communications! You can take a look at it here. Our Comm field has 22 […]
Monday Morning Roundup: Happy Open Access Week!
Ever-mindful that it is not consistency, but a foolish consistency, that is the hobgoblin of little minds, we’re publishing a real assortment today… First of all, happy Open Access Week! You can find all the details at openaccessweek.org, but suffice it to say that the folks behind the growing open access movement are striving to ensure […]
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The Future is Mobile
[Post by David Rose] In case you missed it, on October 5th, Saylor Foundation trustee Michael J. Saylor spoke at the Brookings Institution on “Riding the Mobile Wave: The Future of Mobile Computing.” Two of our illustrious number, David Rose and Charlie Adair, were in attendance. Here’s what they report… Hello to all our faithful […]
Monday Morning Digest: Open Ed Conference!
Continuing our theme of not having a theme (the news cycle sometimes suffers from great dialogue but poor plot), please find below a smattering of the news of roughly-last-week! As always, if we’ve missed something, let us know! But first, some Shameless Self-Promotion… The Open Education Conference starts tomorrow, October 16, in Vancouver, BC, and runs through Thursday. The Saylor […]
Monday Morning Digest: Learning Competency
What else this week but the whole future of education? (Our ambition is so narrow, we know.) Well, actually, it’s mostly this: the Chronicle of Higher Education did a roundup of their own on all things MOOC, and Sal Khan wrote a book (we’re assuming he didn’t use a tablet and a screen recorder to do […]