[Post by David Rose] In case you missed it, on October 5th, Saylor Foundation trustee Michael J. Saylor spoke at the Brookings Institution on “Riding the Mobile Wave: The Future of Mobile Computing.” Two of our illustrious number, David Rose and Charlie Adair, were in attendance. Here’s what they report… Hello to all our faithful […]
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Monday Morning Digest: Open Ed Conference!
Continuing our theme of not having a theme (the news cycle sometimes suffers from great dialogue but poor plot), please find below a smattering of the news of roughly-last-week! As always, if we’ve missed something, let us know! But first, some Shameless Self-Promotion… The Open Education Conference starts tomorrow, October 16, in Vancouver, BC, and runs through Thursday. The Saylor […]
Monday Morning Digest: Learning Competency
What else this week but the whole future of education? (Our ambition is so narrow, we know.) Well, actually, it’s mostly this: the Chronicle of Higher Education did a roundup of their own on all things MOOC, and Sal Khan wrote a book (we’re assuming he didn’t use a tablet and a screen recorder to do […]
Monday Morning Digest: Keeping Score
It’s Monday, the start of a whole new week! And it’s SAT season again — the time of year when countless bright-eyed juniors and panicky seniors first take the test that will determine the rest of their lives be a significant piece of their college applications. Scores are down: reading and writing both fell a point each, […]
Fiftieth Anniversary: History Programs at AIP
Fifty years ago today, J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke at the dedication ceremony of the Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics). On Monday, staff from the Saylor Foundation were pleased to be present at the Center in College Park, MD for the fiftieth anniversary celebration of […]
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