Kathi Fletcher, a fellow with the Shuttleworth Foundation and presenter at #DigEdCon, shared her thoughts on the conference and on the wider questions of technology in education: “Notes from the Saylor Digital Education Conference April 2013” (16 April 2013), on: Kathi Fletcher’s Blog Shuttleworth Foundation Of note: [Michael Saylor] stressed that the goal of the […]
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It’s conference time, people.
We’re taking a hiatus from the usual schtick because today and tomorrow we’ll all be on our best behavior at the Saylor Foundation Digital Education Conference 2013, known more generally around the world as DigEdCon. We’ll put through a couple of posts, but they’ll be probably, oh, say a “6” rather than our usual “10” (that’s on […]
A Case Study in Obstacles to and Strategies for Negotiating the Relicensing of Third-Party Content
Over the past four years, the Saylor Foundation has developed over 300* college level courses, made up of nearly 28,000 educational objects (essays, textbooks, videos, assessments, etc.). Initially, our goal was to use the wide breadth of resources available online to build these courses. We encouraged the use of openly licensed and public domain materials, […]
Ninja Skills: So stealthy, it’s as if we weren’t even here.
You may have noticed (or not) that we skipped the Ninja Skills lesson this week. A shame, because I was going to tell you all about how to use the weird course outline thing on our courses. Next week, yeah? I was busy playing with a press release about how seven schools will give you […]
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With Spring, A Transition: A Message from Director Alana Harrington
To the smart, dedicated, totally awesome Saylor Community– I’m both excited and sad to announce that I will be stepping down from my post as Director of the Saylor Foundation at the end of this month. My family and I have decided to relocate to our hometown of Houston, Texas! The search for a new […]
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