Happy Monday to you! With the start of a new school year, last week there were a flurry of news announcements related to textbooks: specifically, a number of organizations making waves in the free and low-cost textbook market. Also, it’s worth noting that Kevin Carey was on CSPAN last week to talk about MOOCs. The […]
Saylor.org Student Profile: Declan Flowers
Editor’s Note: For the next installment of the Saylor.org Student Profiles, we hop across the pond to Ireland to meet Declan Flowers. Thank you so much to Declan and the other Saylor.org students who have participated in our series. If you’re a Saylor.org student and would like to be featured in this series, please drop […]
WiderNet providing free offline education for inmates
The Saylor Foundation’s mission – to improve access to high-quality higher education worldwide – is shared by many notable organizations. To foster an understanding and awareness of these awesome institutions, from time to time we like to highlight these groups on the Saylor Journals. Today, we’ll look at the work that WiderNet is doing. At the […]
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Monday Morning Digest: Education should go online…. yes or no?
This week’s digest is chock-full of articles covering a wide array of education-related topics and submitted to me by a number of our staff members. What I find most interesting is the juxtaposition of two articles – one stating why we shouldn’t be putting education online because it widens the gap between the financially/educationally-privileged and […]
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Participate in the Extreme and Informal Learning Survey
Want to help further research in the field of open education? Then, respond to this short survey from MIT OpenCourseWare! We received the survey via email from MIT OCW, which read: A message from Dr. Curtis Bonk: “My research team and I from the Instructional Systems Technology Department at Indiana University are conducting a study […]
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