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, […]
Tag: Open Education
A shrinking Public Domain hurts open education
We let Public Domain Day sneak by without comment only because we didn’t want to spoil a perfectly good New Year’s Day; Monday, however, is a perfectly good day to be spoiled with disappointments. Public Domain Day isn’t exactly a real holiday, but it is a real day, January 1st of every year, marking which cultural […]
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Saylor Summer Learning
In lieu of a summer reading list, we have some recommended courses to help you stay sharp — or get sharp — before September rolls back around. Working on a degree? Three of these courses connect to college credit! What are your summer learning goals? Tell us and your networks with #SaylorSummerLearning, or just say […]
How Bay College borrowed, improved, and reshared Saylor Academy OER
Open Educational Resources (OER) are at the core of what we do, so we are always happy to learn of ways that others are able to adapt and reuse our materials. Open learning materials can be edited, translated, localized, and generally improved upon by anyone, which effectively extends the usefulness of resources while distributing the […]
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Partnering with Accredible to build interactive portfolio certificates
Update November 2017: you can see an example certificate and current features at https://www.saylor.org/accredible-certificates With Accredible, we have just announced our work to build the next generation of course certificates. As Accredible says on their post, Accredible’s certificates go beyond the standard PDF certificate, showing what a student has learned by embedding evidence and insights into […]
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