Late last year, we blogged about California State Senator Darrell Steinberg’s ambitious plans to introduce digital textbooks into the California State higher education system, with a proposal to give students free access to texts for 50 core undergraduate classes in California’s three-tier public higher education system: University of California, California State University, and California Community […]
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Have a question about a Saylor.org course? Want to introduce yourself to other Saylor.org students? You’re in luck! With today’s launch of the Saylor Discussion Forums, we’re excited to provide a place for Saylor.org students to say hello to other students, ask a question, or start a conversation. I chatted with Devon Ritter, Saylor’s Special […]
“Sign the U.S. Petition to Support Public Access to Publicly Funded Scientific Research” by Timothy Vollmer was originally published on Creative Commons on 21 May 2012. This week, open access advocates in the United States and around the world are rallying around a petition that urges public access to publicly funded research. The petition is now […]
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One of the biggest obstacles we encounter here at Saylor is link rot. Although we work to host as many resources as we can, we sometimes link to freely available copyrighted material until we can locate resources that we can host on Saylor.org Every day we find new links in our courses that have gone […]
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Earlier this year, we were thrilled when Apple made three major announcements that indicated the corporation’s interest in education. Of those three announcements, we’ve been watching the progress of iTunes U very closely – and today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Saylor Foundation on iTunes U! “Saylor’s free, complete and intuitively-structured courses […]
Read More… from ICYMI: The Saylor Foundation is now on iTunes U!