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Monday Morning Digest: Textbooks, ahoy!

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Camie Rodan

Happy Monday to you! With the start of a new school year, last week there were a flurry of news announcements related to textbooks: specifically, a number of organizations making waves in the free and low-cost textbook market. Also, it’s worth noting that Kevin Carey was on CSPAN last week to talk about MOOCs. The […]

Monday Morning Digest: Education should go online…. yes or no?

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Camie Rodan

This week’s digest is chock-full of articles covering a wide array of education-related topics and submitted to me by a number of our staff members. What I find most interesting is the juxtaposition of two articles – one stating why we shouldn’t be putting education online because it widens the gap between the financially/educationally-privileged and […]

Participate in the Extreme and Informal Learning Survey

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Camie Rodan

Want to help further research in the field of open education? Then, respond to this short survey from MIT OpenCourseWare! We received the survey via email from MIT OCW, which read: A message from Dr. Curtis Bonk: “My research team and I from the Instructional Systems Technology Department at Indiana University are conducting a study […]

Wikipedia and Academia team up for special event

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Camie Rodan

Wikimedia UK, a charity supporting Wikipedia, is inviting you to the Education Conference run on 5-6 September 2012 in Leicester, UK. A day-and-a-half event will be looking at Wikipedia and related projects in terms of educational practice including open content and global participation. It’s a chance to find out more about this, talk about innovative work in your […]

Upcoming Webinar: Leveraging the Saylor.org Platform in Your Course

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Camie Rodan

Attention course designers and educators: want to learn how you can best utilize the Saylor.org platform for your own course? Then check out the second webinar in our series entitled Leveraging the Saylor.org Platform in Your Course! We’ll have Saylor staff on hand to walk you through some of the latest innovations and features on […]