We’ve paired with EdTech startup Memory Science to offer Saylor Academy students free premium access to study tools, using the promo code SAYLOR. […]
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Using the DBSelf plugin to sync course enrollments, grades, and completion between Moodle and Eportfolio
For the last couple of months, you may have noticed that both your in-progress and completed courses – non-legacy courses, that is – are synced from your Saylor Academy ePortfolio to learn.saylor.org. Syncing that information between the two systems turned out to be a bit of a challenge. Moodle (the LMS we use for learn.saylor.org) […]
Open Education Works Better with Partners
As a nonprofit, we constantly ask ourselves how to provide more value for our students, because that is at the core of our open education mission: we want to help students by reducing barriers to entry, to access, and to strong returns on their learning. In part, we do this simply by providing free college and professional […]
Stories from our students
Saylor Academy is more than a collection of courses; we are a growing community of learners from all around the world, wonderfully diverse but united by the desire to learn — for school, for work, and for the sheer joy of it. We love to hear from students and to be able to share stories from […]
Monday Morning Digest – 02 November 2015
Why California’s community colleges will soon offer some four-year degrees (The Hechinger Report) Some technical fields once well-served by two-year degrees have grown more complex; California is piloting a program to get students the additional training their industry needs without asking them to take on additional burdens. From the article: “Beginning in 2017, Littleton and her classmates […]