Good Morning and happy Monday! Today is Memorial Day for Americans and us here at Saylor. As we take a step back and reflect on the news of week, we can look at what one can learn from others and how that push expand to bigger and better things. We begin this week with an […]
Tag: MOOC
(re)Inventing the free online textbook
“First came free online courses. Now come…free online textbooks” (“Coursera to offer students free online textbooks, with conditions” | WaPo). Call us picky, but the implication that free textbooks are an xMOOC innovation is a bit frustrating, especially coming a couple days before we announced the release of a free-and-open, no-strings-attached college mathematics textbook. Even more […]
MOOC News & Reviews: An Interview with Tina Grant, NCCRS
If you’ve been having a slow start to your Friday morning, or just been cruising (or carousing) around for some interesting news, you might have noticed the article, MOOC Credit Watch – Q&A with the National College Credit Recommendation Service. In this piece, MOOC News & Reviews‘ Robert McGuire interviews NCCRS Director Tina Grant. The breakdown: NCCRS, affiliated with […]
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Free MOOC from Sunstone Business School and the Saylor Foundation
We’ve teamed up with Sunstone Business School for their upcoming MOOC “Being an Effective New Leader“! Materials from our BUS401: Management Leadership help to round out the course, which is built, hosted, and facilitated by Sunstone. You’ll learn how to1: Influence without authority Make decisions even with incomplete data Help people do their best to […]
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MMD: Different Schools of Thought
Good morning and happy Monday! As we begin our Monday morning routine here at Saylor, we are bringing some different ideas over onto you. This week different opinions, visions, and thoughts come from varied sources. We begin today with one radically different school of thought, a Hackathon. Former Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates and Facebook are […]