Last week, Saylor Foundation staff made the quick journey to the George Washington University over the weekend to participate in Wikimania 2012. To kick off the first day of sessions, we had the pleasure of hearing from Mary Gardiner, co-founder of the Ada Initiative and Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikimania is an annual conference […]
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Editor’s Note: Ever wonder who is taking Saylor.org courses? In interviews, presentations, and conversations, we’ve hinted at some of the profiles of Saylor.org students – which includes thousands of individuals from a variety of backgrounds – but we’ve never introduced our readers to any of them. That is, not until now. This blog post kicks […]
Because the mission of the Saylor Foundation is to make education freely available to all, we’re continuously looking for outlets to post our educational materials and expand our reach. When we first heard about GoodSemester earlier this year, we were intrigued by their model – and knew it was the channel for our materials. We […]
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The Saylor Foundation is excited to announce that two of its Open Textbook Challenge winning textbooks, Mathematical Analysis I by Elias Zakon and Elementary Linear Algebra by Kenneth Kuttler, are now available for free download in the iTunes Bookstore. The textbooks correspond to MA241: Real Analysis and MA211: Linear Algebra I, respectively. The books are […]
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The Clinton Global Initiative held its annual “domestic focused” working conference, aptly named “CGI America”, earlier this month. I was honored to represent The Saylor Foundation and join nearly 1,000 private, public, and non-profit thought leaders at the event in Chicago to commit to action to help tackle some of our country’s biggest challenges. Of […]