This post is an in-case-you-missed-it (ICYMI) special. Maybe that’s another way of saying “slow news day”; we won’t quibble, but we do like to think we’re transcript-half-full kind of people. Without further ado, here are some of our stories you may have missed in the past few days… Credit: tomhe via photopin cc by-nc-sa 2.0 […]
Saylor’s “Wild Ambition” – Now in Chronicle Flavor.
Apologies if you’ve caught this already in the social media streams…this is just to share that we’ve made a print-edition debut in the Chronicle of Higher Education: A Dot-Com Entrepreneur’s Wild Ambition: Drive Education Costs to Zero For our part, we’re just thrilled to mention it. But for anyone interested in the origins of Saylor.org, […]
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Monday Morning Digest: Learn Computer Literacy Online? Nah, It’ll never work.
In the first offering below, Peter Harsha of the Computing Research Association clues us in to the idea that fluency in computers is about more than what we might pick up in high school (or even college) classes; it’s about “knowing…how to use a computer to solve problems.” Folks once thought that personal computing was […]
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Making Open Courseware Count
On October 16th Alana Harrington, Executive Director of Saylor.org, presented at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Alana’s presentation, titled Making Open Courseware Count, explored how students are using Saylor.org courses to improve their lives. Here is an excerpt from the presentation summary: Over the past year, we’ve found that our courseware attracts […]
The Big Picture: A World Map of OER Initiatives
This one’s filed under “ideas we wish we’d had.” The world OER community has grown a lot in the 10 years (to the extent one can measure these things) of its existence. But who are we? Where are we? Who have we yet to meet, to partner with? Enter Alberta’s Athabasca University, which is hosting […]
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