Our recent foray into the MOOC world, a systems engineering course produced in partnership with NASA personnel, was an astronomical success (pardon the pun). Over 9,000 students from 143 countries enrolled and nearly 600 completed the final exam; nine students who completed the Mars Sample Return Mission project took a VIP tour of the Goddard Space Flight Center. […]
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Four quotes from Marc Singer’s interview with The Evolllution on prior learning credentials
In a recent interview with online higher education news source The Evolllution — the three L’s emphasize “life-long learning” — Marc Singer of Thomas Edison State College outlines the open course option (text | graphic) for TESC’s Associate in Science in Business Administration (ASBA) degree. The fruit of a long relationship and partnership between Thomas Edison […]
Students wanted for pilot program: 4 credits for free from SUNY Empire State College
Go ahead…take the credit Between March 15 and August 30, we are inviting up to one hundred students to earn up to four college credits for free. (Nothing; nada; zip; zero; zilch.) Through a pilot program in partnership with SUNY Empire State College, students can submit Saylor Academy coursework for portfolio evaluation and potential credit under […]
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Open Course Option at Thomas Edison State College
[blog_update customblogupdate=”Visit https://www.saylor.org/degrees/ for the latest on this program — since 2014 (when we wrote this post), we have been able to bring the cost down even more.”] I’m sure it seems that every time I step in for Sean to pen a blog post, I sling the idea of college credit for one of […]
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Announcement: Space Systems Engineering Course Starts March 3rd
In collaboration with staff from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, we are thrilled to present a free, online, six-week course in Space Systems Engineering. [Edit September 2020: This course originally ran in the spring of 2014. The course materials are still available on our legacy courses site. Register now, then find out more (or vice […]
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