Wikimedia UK, a charity supporting Wikipedia, is inviting you to the Education Conference run on 5-6 September 2012 in Leicester, UK. A day-and-a-half event will be looking at Wikipedia and related projects in terms of educational practice including open content and global participation. It’s a chance to find out more about this, talk about innovative work in your […]
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Attention course designers and educators: want to learn how you can best utilize the Saylor.org platform for your own course? Then check out the second webinar in our series entitled Leveraging the Saylor.org Platform in Your Course! We’ll have Saylor staff on hand to walk you through some of the latest innovations and features on […]
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Here are some of the top headlines from last week: Universities Reshaping Education on the Web Coursera announces that about a dozen major research universities will be joining their cause of offering open online courses (MOOCs). The folks behind Coursera are very interested with what can be done with certification instead of offering degrees. This […]
Editor’s Note: This is our second installment of the The Saylor Journals – Saylor Student Profiles. These profiles provide an opportunity to meet the variety of people that are studying our courses. We hope that their experience will inspire you to take a new course! If you’re a Saylor.org student and would like to be […]
Last week, Saylor employees had the opportunity to attend Wikimania 2012, the annual international Wikimedia conference. The conference was organized into multiple sessions during which members of the Wikimedia Foundation advisory board, academics, and general wiki enthusiasts gave presentations on their work with Wikimedia. Though the topics varied considerably, we found that certain key issues […]
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