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Pure OER: SOC101

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Sean Connor

The free education project of The Saylor Foundation, from its very beginning, has been committed to open educational resources (OER). We also committed early on to an…er, ambitious…slate of courses — 241, to be exact. To get there, we had to source great content from all over, working hard to gather up open resources when possible, […]

Course o’ the Week – PRDV103 Available on iTunes U

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Marissa Citro

Just got a call for a job interview? Are those classic “interview nerves” keeping you up at night the night before? Then take a deep breath and be sure to study our PRDV103: Interviewing Skills course (a quick one…3 hours…hey, you can’t sleep anyway!) before your next interview. Third in our 4-course Job Search Skills Program, […]

Course O’ the Week – ECON305 Available on iTunes U

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Sean Connor

There’s no time like the present to dive into the study of public finance. We won’t speak for the rest of world (lest we reveal our ignorance), but the talk here in D.C. has been all “Fiscal Cliff this, Debt Ceiling that…” We don’t know what it all means, of course, but it seems like […]

New Course: Sociology 101

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Sean Connor

Brand new, fresh out of the box, and available in our grab bag Electives area of study, we humbly present: SOC101: Introduction to Sociology A century and change after emerging as an academic discipline, sociology is still growing and improving its methods, helping us to make concrete our observations of society around us. From the […]

Course O’ the Week – BUS206 Available on iTunes U

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Sean Connor

When I was a kid, I managed information with one of these, but age and wisdom have a way of complicating things. These days, working with Management Information Systems covers things like using email, databases, content management software…in short, “interactions between organized data and people.” People in the workplace use this stuff every day. Without […]