Last week, Alana Harrington and I had the opportunity to travel to Houston, Texas for the 2012 Connexions Conference. This was our first time attending this conference, and let me tell you – it did not disappoint! The daylong conference was so chock-full of information and excellent presentations that it could have easily run across […]
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Here at the Saylor Foundation, our mission is to make education freely available to all. Our primary focus is curating college-level courseware and making these courses freely available on www.saylor.org. However, we also want to ensure that individuals – students, professors, and anyone interested in polishing his or her knowledge in various subject areas – […]
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Late last week, we announced the fourth and final text to be accepted in Wave I of our Open Textbook Challenge! Mathematical Analysis I, a text written by the late Elias Zakon of the University of Windsor, was submitted by Dr. Bradley Lucier thanks to a joint effort between Lucier and Zakon’s daughter Tamara Zakon. […]
Read More… from Open Textbook Challenge Wave I Winners: Fourth Textbook Released!
This morning, we were so excited to announce the first round winners and accepted texts of the Saylor Foundation’s Open Textbook Challenge! We were utterly impressed by each of the submissions we received in this first wave of our Challenge, and found that three of the texts really fit our course needs. We’re thrilled to […]
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We are excited to announce today that we will be extending the Wave II deadline of our Open Textbook Challenge! Yes, you heard that right: we’ve decided to push back our Wave II deadline to May 31, 2012. There are a few reasons why we felt prospective OTC candidates should have some extra time to prepare their […]
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