SkillSmart and Saylor Academy Announce Skills-Based Training Partnership

SkillSmart and Saylor Academy are partnering to accelerate skills-based learning and employment opportunities. Together, SkillSmart’s skills matching algorithm and Saylor Academy’s cost-effective training platform will streamline the pathway from education to employment for job seekers. Ninety percent of employers believe that graduates lack the skills they need, while nearly 50 percent of recent college graduates […]

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Recap: Open Courses for College Credit

If you missed our Open Education Week edition of our occasional office hours, we focused on using open courses for college credit, with an intended audience of both students and educators. The archived video is below. The main takeaways we hope we conveyed are these: We now have 22 courses recommended for over 60 credits […]

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Join our live office hours on Wednesday, part of celebrating Open Education Week 2016

Please join us for our Open Office Hours this Wednesday, March 9th at 3:00 PM EST! Our topic will be Open Courses for College Credit — we have chosen to highlight credit opportunities for open online learning in order to inform and inspire not just our current student community, but a wider community of parents, […]

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Monday Morning Digest – 16 November 2015

After a one-week hiatus, the Monday Morning Digest is back. Next week will be a special edition, of sorts, as our team returns the Open Education Conference in Vancouver — we will do our level best to share the ideas, presentations, and initiatives that jump out at us. Check the links below for what inspired us […]

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Monday Morning Digest – 02 November 2015

Why California’s community colleges will soon offer some four-year degrees (The Hechinger Report) Some technical fields once well-served by two-year degrees have grown more complex; California is piloting a program to get students the additional training their industry needs without asking them to take on additional burdens. From the article: “Beginning in 2017, Littleton and her classmates […]

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