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 […]
Spirit of Innovation Challenge: Vote Now!
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 […]
Course o’ the week: Professional Writing Available on iTunes U
So, your boss asks you to write a memo on your most recent business trip to a conference. But you haven’t written one before. (Or maybe you have, but you want a little bit more practice?) Then relax, because PRDV002: Professional Writing is our iTunes U course o’ the week. In just 3.5 hours, learn […]
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MMD: The Need For Reform?
Good Morning and Happy Monday! Sometimes, change can be a good thing. And in other places people believe a change still needs to happen. For this week we look at reforms and changes in U.S. Federal Aid for students in higher ed., the needs for: international accrediting offices, reform in certain U.S. states, and the […]
We Love Resources: UC Irvine’s Open Chemistry
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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