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SkillSmart and Saylor Academy Announce Skills-Based Training Partnership

Posted on April 21, 2016 (November 19, 2018) by Jeff Davidson

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 […]

OER as a participatory activity

Posted on April 15, 2016 (November 19, 2018) by Sean Connor

Yesterday, the Creative Commons blog posted on Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies This post is right up our open education alley, so we’re recommending it and have pulled a few juicy bits to quote below. After some treatment of “free” vs. “open” and “libre” vs. “gratis”, the author (Alek Tarkowski) gets to some issues even […]

Recap: Open Courses for College Credit

Posted on March 11, 2016 (November 19, 2018) by Sean Connor

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 […]

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

Posted on March 7, 2016 (November 19, 2018) by Sean Connor

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, […]

Saylor Academy now offers over 2 years worth of tuition-free college credits with new ACE recommendations

Posted on March 2, 2016 (November 19, 2018) by Jeff Davidson

We are pleased to announce new college credit recommendations for five more courses from the American Council on Education. These additional recommendations push the Saylor Academy over the important milestone of offering 60+ transferable college credits. That equals two years worth of tuition-free college credit transferable to some terrific, accredited partner colleges! We are honored […]