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

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 […]

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7 Steps to Effective – and Efficient – Self-Learning

Are you working through Saylor.org courses – or a number of free educational resources – and find that you’re having trouble managing your time?  In a recent newsletter, well-known education activist, DIY learner, and founder of UnCollege.org Dale J. Stephens shared his own steps to learning effectively and efficiently. With Dale’s permission, I am sharing […]

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Resources & Tools: The Awesome Highlighter!

I was first introduced to digital textbooks back in business school. After registering for an Advertising and Sales class, I got a notice that I could purchase a digital textbook in lieu of the standard hardcopy. Hoping to take a load off my shoulders (literally! My daily commuter bag could get very heavy as I […]

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Resources and Tools: Evernote

Picture this: You’re taking an online course, which directs you to YouTube, PDF readings, and external websites. There you read or hear something that peaks your interest, prompting you to enter a query into Google. Before you know it, you have 20 different windows open. Whew! At some point, you had made a mental note to […]

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