When I initially drafted this piece about affordable options for college credit, I was going to frame it with background information and shocking details about the rising cost of education, how that cost is outpacing other economic indicators, and how student loan debt has reached $1,000,000,000,000. But you already knew that. So I’ll jump right […]
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Calling all students: So, you’ve been taking our courses here at Saylor for a while now (or just getting started — welcome!) and many of you have asked about badges, credits, etc. as ways to include your achievements on your transcripts and resume. Let’s focus on that resume, shall we? I mean, why not? You […]
Good Morning and Happy Monday! This week, science and experimentation have made some great advances lately-thanks to technology. Some have been getting some help from politics and rewards. Still, others are in the experiment stage. We begin this week with online test proctoring. Webcams can provide us with the ability to take videos and pictures of ourselves […]
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Kathi Fletcher, a fellow with the Shuttleworth Foundation and presenter at #DigEdCon, shared her thoughts on the conference and on the wider questions of technology in education: “Notes from the Saylor Digital Education Conference April 2013” (16 April 2013), on: Kathi Fletcher’s Blog Shuttleworth Foundation Of note: [Michael Saylor] stressed that the goal of the […]
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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