We are honored to have Dr. Marie Cini, Provost and Senior Academic Innovation Fellow at University of Maryland-University College, join us for the Saylor Higher Education Summit on June 21-22, 2017. Dr. Cini will discuss how creating and adopting open educational resources (“OER”) at higher education institutions is an important step toward increasing access, improving […]
Panelist Profile: Marc Singer, Thomas Edison State University
As Thomas Edison State University leads higher education in innovating to increase access for non-traditional students, we are very pleased to have Marc Singer join us and moderate a panel on degree completion for working learners. Marc is Vice Provost at TESU, responsible for the University’s programs in prior learning assessment, open educational resources, and […]
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Panelist Profile: Katie Hall, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
We’re really pleased to have Katie Hall moderate our panel on alternative credentials at the Saylor Higher Education Summit. In addition to moderating the panel, Katie will discuss the “Connecting Credentials” initiative. Connecting Credentials is a cross-sector collaboration of educators, learners, employers, funders, community leaders, workforce development groups, and public policymakers working to is make […]
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Site maintenance June 4th
As part of a software update, our courses and materials at learn.saylor.org will be unavailable for several hours on Sunday, June 4th. We expect to have everything back in order by 3:00 PM EDT. If you would like to do some studying while the site is offline, you can use the Wayback Machine to view […]
The Weekend Assignment: Currency
Last weekend’s assignment was to learn something new about a little known invention, and with our #FridayFact we learned that Leonardo Da Vinci is considered to have been the first person to create a résumé. Da Vinci’s résumé took the form of a letter written around 1481–1482 to Ludovico Sforza. At the time Sforza was […]