“College Completion: Still a Big Deal, So Let’s Make It Easier and Cheaper” by Tom Vander Ark was originally published on Getting Smart on 10 May 2012. The return on investment from American colleges is dropping—a combination of insane cost inflation and a crummy job market. To be fair, many colleges are giving kids what they […]
Read More… from On the Web: Making College Completion Easier and Cheaper
The Saylor Foundation has not one, but two very exciting pieces of news today! First, we are thrilled to announce a formal partnership with StraighterLine. Beginning in the Fall of 2012, students taking advantage of this partnership will have the opportunity to earn college credit for a very low cost. More details are available in the press […]
Head’s up, course designers: we’re holding a free webinar next month just for you! Details are below: Description: The Saylor Foundation is pleased to announce the second installment of its course design workshop series: Articulating and Aligning Learning Outcomes. In this workshop, you will hear from Ellen Bremen, Emily Wood, Andy Williams, and Stephanie Delaney, […]
Read More… from Course Design Workshop: Developing and Testing for Learning Outcomes
Attention journalists! Want a free resource that will help you locate data for better reporting? Read this update, originally posted by June Park at Creative Commons (original post here). This Saturday’s International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy will unveil a months-long collaborative effort — the Data Journalism Handbook, a free, CC BY-SA licensed book to help journalists find and use […]
Read More… from Data Journalism Handbook to launch under CC BY-SA
We’ve just returned from Cambridge 2012, a conference that combined the OpenCourseware Consortium’s global meeting and UK OER’s annual conference and was held at the very beautiful Queens College in Cambridge, UK. Themes of innovation, impact, and collaboration were sprinkled throughout each of the presentations. While we were familiar with a number of the initiatives […]