We let Public Domain Day sneak by without comment only because we didn’t want to spoil a perfectly good New Year’s Day; Monday, however, is a perfectly good day to be spoiled with disappointments. Public Domain Day isn’t exactly a real holiday, but it is a real day, January 1st of every year, marking which cultural […]
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American Council on Education Unveils Alternative Credit Project Course Pool Saylor Academy Participating in Initiative to Help Nontraditional Learners Gain College Degrees and Credentials Washington, DC (Oct. 21, 2015) — The American Council on Education (ACE) today announced the pool of courses selected as part of ACE’s Alternative Credit Project™, a groundbreaking initiative to boost the […]
This post is only about our archived courses — if you are learning with us at learn.saylor.org, the courses, exams, and certificates work the way they did yesterday, the way they do today, and the way they will tomorrow! One of the major requests we have had since we closed the old testing center last month if to make final exams available for […]
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Change is nearly upon us: The old testing center at school.saylor.org, which currently serves our set of legacy courses, will close down this coming Wednesday, 26 August, after 10:00 AM EDT (2:00 PM GMT). Learn.saylor.org, the current courses and testing site, will also be unavailable between 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM EDT (2:00 PM and 4:00 […]
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Neelam Malik-Tajani, learning with Saylor Academy as part of the Adamjee Life Academy initiative, talks about the need to practice juggling multiple tasks — while one is already juggling multiple tasks. Saylor Academy is great way of initiating the learning process. The purpose of choosing three particular courses was to learn how to manage the tasks […]