NOTE: The OTC has ended, but you can visit our collection of textbooks here. “The Saylor Foundation’s Open Textbook Challenge” by Melissa Venable was originally posted on OnlineCollege.org on 22 May 2012. Calling all academic authors! The Saylor Foundation’s Open Textbook Challenge is expanding, and awarding $20,000 for accepted textbooks that align with eligible Saylor courses […]
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“Sign the U.S. Petition to Support Public Access to Publicly Funded Scientific Research” by Timothy Vollmer was originally published on Creative Commons on 21 May 2012. This week, open access advocates in the United States and around the world are rallying around a petition that urges public access to publicly funded research. The petition is now […]
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One of the biggest obstacles we encounter here at Saylor is link rot. Although we work to host as many resources as we can, we sometimes link to freely available copyrighted material until we can locate resources that we can host on Saylor.org Every day we find new links in our courses that have gone […]
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Have you heard? Saylor.org is now hosting a complete, college-level Modern Art course – built entirely through a partnership with the Art Story Foundation! When the Saylor Foundation’s consulting professors set out to build ARTH208: Modern Art, they stumbled upon the Art Story Foundation’s website, which hosts thousands of educational materials focused solely on Modern […]
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Earlier this year, we were thrilled when Apple made three major announcements that indicated the corporation’s interest in education. Of those three announcements, we’ve been watching the progress of iTunes U very closely – and today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Saylor Foundation on iTunes U! “Saylor’s free, complete and intuitively-structured courses […]
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