In a press release (pdf) issued yesterday, the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) announced the completion of the second group of the 81 highest-enrollment college courses. Available as open education resources (OER), these courses and their constituent materials are built for re-use and sharing, in and out of the classroom. Indeed, the Saylor […]
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Good Morning and Happy Monday! This week, science and experimentation have made some great advances lately-thanks to technology. Some have been getting some help from politics and rewards. Still, others are in the experiment stage. We begin this week with online test proctoring. Webcams can provide us with the ability to take videos and pictures of ourselves […]
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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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Our own Angelyn Pinter is presenting on “Full Curriculum OER”, an overview of the Saylor Foundation’s Common Core-aligned K12 offerings, at Open Educational Resources Day in Spokane, WA on Monday, April 22. If you are in the area, you should check her out! More information on Open Educational Resources Day is here. […]
Good morning and happy Monday! As the sun rises on another Monday morning, we look at a world the is so digitally interconnected, and yet human interaction and teamwork are still key to bridging gaps. Can the internet become the medium for this effective interaction to occur? We begin with a look at MIT and […]