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Our first CLEP® aligned course — POLSC232: American Government

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Sean Connor

We’ve just launched our first CLEP-aligned course! The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP®) is a widely-recognized credit-by-exam program. According to The College Board’s website, 2,900 higher education institutions are willing to accept CLEP exams for credit. While our course is not endorsed by The College Board, we’ve carefully re-worked our Intro to American Politics course (POLSC231) into POLSC232: American […]

Put your knowledge of OER to work at Thomas Edison State College!

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Sean Connor

Our friends at Thomas Edison State College (one of our college credit pathways partners; learn more here and here), are looking for an Assessment Strategist for Open Courseware and Competency-Based Education. The person hired “will be responsible for exploring opportunities for developing assessments and granting credit in the emerging area of open educational resources, open courseware, […]

Monday Morning Digest: Open Ed.-It Makes the World Go ‘Round

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Marissa Citro

Good Morning and Happy Monday! Open Education Week started today and we’re very psyched about it here at Saylor. Further building on this theme, we take a look at news from around the US and the world. From the state of California,to Scotland, to Berlin, Germany, open education is the name of the game. Student […]

Spoiler Alert: Agenda Revealed for The Saylor Foundation Digital Education Conference

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Jacqueline Arnold

We know. You have been anxious to see what we’ve slated for our first-ever Digital Education Conference. Well, rest assured, after months of conference calls, emails and brainstorming we are ready to reveal our agenda (download the “pretty” copy here)! We have plenty planned to bring about new ideas, projects, partnerships and parties…ahem…networking opportunities. Not to […]

We Love Resources: Free Music Archive

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Sean Connor

Okay, so there’s no shortage of free music available on the web, even when we don’t count all the not-so-legal stuff. Anybody with a good Internet connection can listen to (and occasionally download) just about any popular song at any time for little or no cost. “Free” in these cases means “free of cost for […]