Hello Kelly, thanks for taking the time to let us and our readers get to know you! We’ll get started with our first question (it’s an easy one): What have you been up to with the Saylor Foundation? I have worked as a peer reviewer and also as a consulting professor to complete several peer review […]
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Following up on last week’s little treatise on the study skills miracle that is the second notebook (one for mess, the other for success), we’re dipping once again into the Old School’s bag of tricks. To wit: your every-day, plain-vanilla browser bookmark — a student emailed in support of this tool, and I agree: it can […]
Watch and see: young people have great ideas. The Conrad Foundation’s Spirit of Innovation Challenge is driven by this notion. It’s one that we at the Saylor Foundation share, which is why we’ve chosen to be a 2013 partner for SOIC. In this competition, 13-18 year olds design “commercially viable products or services to address issues of […]
Like the resource we featured two weeks ago (Free Music Archive), we haven’t yet found a place for the videos at Open Chemistry (UC Irvine), though in this case we might be forgiven; the site arrived with the just-finished Open Education Week 2013. Whether you’re just a die-hard Breaking Bad fan or in love with chemistry for its […]
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To the smart, dedicated, totally awesome Saylor Community– I’m both excited and sad to announce that I will be stepping down from my post as Director of the Saylor Foundation at the end of this month. My family and I have decided to relocate to our hometown of Houston, Texas! The search for a new […]
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