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 […]
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Course Design Workshop: Developing and Testing for Learning Outcomes
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, […]
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Data Journalism Handbook to launch under CC BY-SA
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 […]
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Innovation and Impact in Cambridge
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 […]
MIT OpenCourseWare: New Resource for Entrepreneurship Education
Have you ever wanted to start your own business? Or thought about approaching your work with an entrepreneurial mindset? Well, thanks to MIT OpenCourseWare, you’re in luck! Just yesterday, the organization announced that, thanks to a grant from the NASDAQ OMX Foundation, it is now able to provide a collection of entrepreneurship resources. Here’s a blurb from […]
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