Today’s blog post comes from Kevin Carey, the Director of Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation. On May 9, 2012, Carey attended the College Affordability and Innovation Roundtable, an event hosted by Aneesh Chopra, former U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration and Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia; Michael Saylor, Chairman, […]
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Attention educators: Are you looking for an easy way to create and organize units, lessons, and courses for the next school year? Want to share your lessons with other teachers around the globe? OER Commons has just the application for you! Yesterday, OER Commons announced the arrival of ISKME’s Open Author, a cloud-based Open Educational […]
Interviewed yesterday on American Public Media’s Marketplace program, Mark Yudof, president of the University of California system, discussed the fiscal health of higher education in his state. The California state legislature has approved a budget and the governor has pitched a ballot proposition to raise taxes to pay for public education – including higher education, but the […]
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Here at the Saylor Foundation, we are eagerly awaiting the start of Wikimania 2012, this year’s worldwide conference on all things Wiki-related. This year the conference is being hosted in our hometown of Washington, DC, July 11th through 14th at the George Washington University. We are proud to announce our sponsorship of this exciting international […]
Interested in learning more about initiatives working to expand educational access? Then look no further! Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies, edited by Diana G. Oblinger, is a new and free e-book that brings together some of the most innovative organizations at the front line and highlights their efforts and models of success. To develop […]
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