We’re wrapping up week three of our Saylor Summer School experiment. We surveyed our three student cohorts to learn a bit more about them and why they signed up for the torture pleasure of ten weeks of online learning. We share some of the results (pictures! world map!) below. If you’d like to sign up […]
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Declaring independence
Today is Independence Day in the US, so we’re all off celebrating, each in our own way (although food, family, and friends will likely be common themes). If online learning is on your agenda, we’d of course suggest our Introduction to U.S. History, among others, and you can’t go wrong with Joanne Freeman’s American Revolution lectures (peppered […]
Taking K-12 and affordable credit to the Open Ed 2013 Conference!
Save the date! We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be presenting a double-feature at the celebrated 2013 OpenEd Conference in Park City, Utah. We’ll be showing off our shiny new K-12 full-curriculum OER initiative and teaming up with Mark Michalisin of Excelsior College to talk about using OER aligned to exams to connect students to college credit. Of course, you […]
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MMD: Times Are a Changin’
Good morning and happy Monday! As enter the month of July, we take a look at how the situation of education has changed over time. Due to the economic recession, pushes for higher standards, and to get a dream job have all forced education to change with the times. Sometimes these are good and others […]
MMD: Concerns About the Uses of Tech. in Ed.
Good morning and happy Monday! This week, we look at some recent concerns that have been popping up about the many uses of technology in education. Sometimes, certain innovations are built to aid in efficiency, or to replace classroom altogether, but is the objective really achieved? We begin with foreign language learning and a popular […]
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