Anya Kamenetz (known for her book DIY U and free-to-download The Edupunks’ Guide to a DIY Credential, among other things) has just written a piece for NPR on competency-based degrees, a subject near enough to our hearts and a core initiative for some of our partners. The occasion of her article is a just-out report from the American […]
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MIT recently announced that it was removing renowned physics professor Walter Lewin’s lectures from both MIT OCW and edX following a sexual harassment allegation from a woman in one of Dr. Lewin’s edX classes. According to the announcement, MIT’s decision is based, in part, on the desire to prevent “any further inappropriate behavior.” As OER […]
Did you know… …that Paul Smith’s College has announced a new minor program in “craft beer studies and operations”? And did you further know… …that the craft beer minor includes “a collection of business courses in management, marketing, advertising and promotion, in addition to practical coursework in brewing and the business of beer“? And did […]
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We will close our offices from this afternoon through Sunday to celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends over the next few days, although of course the free learning goes on! Speaking of learning, is there a word for sesquicentennial-plus-one? That’s how long the streak of the official Thanksgiving holidays in the U.S. has gone unbroken, […]
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With lead author John Hilton III of Brigham Young University, our staff members Lindsay Murphy and Devon Ritter have written and had published the article “From Open Educational Resources to College Credit: The Approaches of Saylor Academy” in open-access journal Open Praxis [Vol 6, No 4 (2014)]. The article considers the Saylor Academy’s history, philosophy, […]
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