We’re wrapping up week three of our Saylor Summer School experiment. We surveyed our three student cohorts to learn a bit more about them and why they signed up for the torture pleasure of ten weeks of online learning. We share some of the results (pictures! world map!) below. If you’d like to sign up […]
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20 Summer Professional Development Learning Opportunities
What’s on your learning docket this summer (besides Saylor Summer School, of course)? If the great list at Lifehacker University: Summer Semester 2013 is a little too straight-up academic, you might try MOOC News & Reviews‘ Summer Professional Development MOOC Opportunities list. You’ll spot our Accounting Principles I, HTML Coding and CSS for Beginners, and Job Search Skills program there. Here […]
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MMD: Movements in Ed. Tech. & Higher Ed.
Good morning and happy Monday! For this week, there are many different movements occurring in Ed. Tech. and higher ed., and we’re here to shed some light. The ideas behind these movements range from encouraging offline interaction, to too many teachers paying out of pocket for digital content, to some different movements that apply to higher […]
Saylor Summer School 2013: 10 Weeks, 9 Credits, No Excuses.
We’re pleased to announce an exciting — and experimental! — summer project. Here’s the gist: for the next ten weeks, we’re going to run sessions for three of our best courses — with the possibility of getting real, portable college credit (yeah, with caveats*). We’d call it a MOOC, but that’s soooo 2012, don’t you […]
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MMD: Innovations in EdTech
Good Morning and Happy Monday! Well here we are at the start of June. Summer weather has come here to our HQ in DC, and with change in the air, this week we look at innovations around the world. We begin this week with the Land Down Under, Australia. An innovative Aussie MOOC platform, […]