Good news for a Wednesday morning — today we announced agreements with seven colleges and universities to guarantee credit for three of our courses. More schools and more courses are on the way in 2013. Read the release here, and please do share! […]
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Watch and see: young people have great ideas. The Conrad Foundation’s Spirit of Innovation Challenge is driven by this notion. It’s one that we at the Saylor Foundation share, which is why we’ve chosen to be a 2013 partner for SOIC. In this competition, 13-18 year olds design “commercially viable products or services to address issues of […]
You can always check out the release for more details, but here’s the gist of what we announced today: Thomas Edison State College (in historic Trenton, New Jersey!) will create new exams and assessments for some of our most popular courses, and we’ll map/re-align some of our courses to match existing exams in the Thomas […]
Yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address to the combined houses of Congress. In the speech, the President called for colleges to be held to high standards of “affordability and value.” Florida Senator Marco Rubio, in his response to the speech, likewise called for meaningful change for students, specifically […]
Apologies if you’ve caught this already in the social media streams…this is just to share that we’ve made a print-edition debut in the Chronicle of Higher Education: A Dot-Com Entrepreneur’s Wild Ambition: Drive Education Costs to Zero For our part, we’re just thrilled to mention it. But for anyone interested in the origins of Saylor.org, […]
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