Course Designer Ryan McPherson to Present @IOLConf Tomorrow!

So how do we take a bunch of OER and make it into a Saylor course? Course Designer Ryan McPherson knows the recipe well. He has helped design and perfect our BUS 210 and COMM 102 courses. And tomorrow, he will be presenting and spreading the word at the Innovations in Online Learning Conference 2013, […]

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We Love Resources: Scores of video and podcast lessons from The Faculties

Keep an eye out for our upcoming K-12 Statistics and ELA-10 courses, which make use  of video from The Faculties. Want to make your parents (children, friends) proud and catch up on some extra learning this summer? Excited about starting college but unsure of what to choose as your major? Curious about employment opportunities and […]

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Kathi Fletcher on #DigEdCon and Ed Tech

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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MOOC News & Reviews: An Interview with Tina Grant, NCCRS

If you’ve been having a slow start to your Friday morning, or just been cruising (or carousing) around for some interesting news, you might have noticed the article, MOOC Credit Watch – Q&A with the National College Credit Recommendation Service. In this piece, MOOC News & Reviews‘ Robert McGuire interviews NCCRS Director Tina Grant. The breakdown: NCCRS, affiliated with […]

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