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Free MOOC from Sunstone Business School and the Saylor Foundation

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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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Spirit of Innovation Challenge Winners Announced

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The Saylor Foundation was proud to serve as a Champion Partner for the 2013 Spirit of Innovation Challenge produced by the Conrad Foundation and its partners. The Challenge “invites high school students…to develop innovative products to help solve global and local problems while supporting global sustainability.” From just twenty finalist teams, four winners emerged in […]

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We Love Resources: the Digital Public Library of America

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Perhaps you’ve heard of WorldCat, which is, in brief, “the world’s largest network of library content and services” — but to folks like you and me, that means that we can search across many different library collections for a particular holding. It’s fun, it’s convenient, and it helped Yours Truly solve an Advanced Power Searching with […]

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A MOOC Mini Primer

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If you want a good, brief primer on xMOOCs, business models for online education, California higher ed politics, open educational resources, and free/open textbooks — all on one page — you could do worse than Abby Clobridge’s “The Wild West of MOOCs“. She mentions the Saylor Foundation…ever heard of ’em? […]

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