Just in time for Open Education Week and ongoing legislative proposals before the U.S. Congress, today we announced a new open textbook produced in collaboration with author David Bourgeois, Ph.D. Information Systems for Business and Beyond is free for download, reuse, and remixing under a Creative Commons license (CC BY). The book is already in use in […]
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In the midst of the recent craze and controversy about free online learning, Jonathan Haber wanted to see things from the learner’s perspective. He undertook a daunting project: earn the equivalent of a four-year philosophy degree* in just a quarter of the time. He documented everything at Degree of Freedom, and recently recapped his experience […]
[blog_update customblogupdate=”Visit https://www.saylor.org/degrees/ for the latest on this program — since 2014 (when we wrote this post), we have been able to bring the cost down even more.”] I’m sure it seems that every time I step in for Sean to pen a blog post, I sling the idea of college credit for one of […]
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In collaboration with staff from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, we are thrilled to present a free, online, six-week course in Space Systems Engineering. [Edit September 2020: This course originally ran in the spring of 2014. The course materials are still available on our legacy courses site. Register now, then find out more (or vice […]
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The U.S. PIRG Education Fund and The Student PIRGs yesterday released a report on “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market”, based on a survey of students on 150 college campuses. Among the report’s findings: Students will risk poor grades rather than purchase assigned textbooks The price of textbooks can produce a “ripple effect” on a student’s […]
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