This fall, Saylor Academy is creating more study guides to accompany its free online courses. These online resources will help you focus your studies to assist you in successfully completing your courses. The material in our study guides will tie directly to the learning outcomes outlined in each unit of our courses. Our study guides: […]
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Our Diploma Pathways are now Certificate Programs
The certificates formerly known as “diplomas” are back with a new name and a refreshed certificate template. We are calling the course sequences “Programs” and each program is further differentiated as a [full] curriculum or a specialiazation. Here is an example certificate for the Customer Service Specialization: You can find the new page here: www.saylor.org/certificate-programs […]
Graphing the growth of the Saylor Direct Credit program
Can Saylor Academy save college students $1 million in tuition in 2016? In April, we reported on completion of exams for credit recommended courses, in which we estimated confirmed student tuition savings to date of more than $250,000 — that’s about $2,000 per student! With this post, we wanted to share a couple graphs to […]
Report: Student Savings from Saylor Direct Credit Courses
In December of 2012, Saylor Academy officially launched a program aimed at providing students with opportunities to receive transferable college credit for our tuition-free courses. The cost for this credit: time spent learning from one of our free courses, and $25 to have an exam proctored. This initiative has since taken on a name, Saylor Direct Credit, and has grown […]
Intro to Literary Studies Now Available on iTunes U
If freshman composition is often considered the bane of university first-years, the introductory literature course is merely the butt of a joke. (And good luck to those who try to major in English Lit without suffering the scorn of their so-called friends with “real” majors.) A sad story, indeed, and sadder still that the cynics […]
We Love Resources: NextGenU
Calling all health students, practitioners, scientists, and those of you who are just curious! Students ask from time to time about what courses we have in the health fields, and the answer, we’re sorry to report, is none as yet. So if you’re interested in taking a free course about how climate change affects one’s […]
Release: Guaranteed Transfer Credit for Students of Free Online Courses
Good news for a Wednesday morning — today we announced agreements with seven colleges and universities to guarantee credit for three of our courses. More schools and more courses are on the way in 2013. Read the release here, and please do share! […]
New Course: Sociology 101
Brand new, fresh out of the box, and available in our grab bag Electives area of study, we humbly present: SOC101: Introduction to Sociology A century and change after emerging as an academic discipline, sociology is still growing and improving its methods, helping us to make concrete our observations of society around us. From the […]