Here are some of the top headlines from last week: Universities Reshaping Education on the Web Coursera announces that about a dozen major research universities will be joining their cause of offering open online courses (MOOCs). The folks behind Coursera are very interested with what can be done with certification instead of offering degrees. This […]
Editor’s Note: This is our second installment of the The Saylor Journals – Saylor Student Profiles. These profiles provide an opportunity to meet the variety of people that are studying our courses. We hope that their experience will inspire you to take a new course! If you’re a Saylor.org student and would like to be […]
Last week, Saylor Foundation staff made the quick journey to the George Washington University over the weekend to participate in Wikimania 2012. To kick off the first day of sessions, we had the pleasure of hearing from Mary Gardiner, co-founder of the Ada Initiative and Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikimania is an annual conference […]
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Editor’s Note: Ever wonder who is taking Saylor.org courses? In interviews, presentations, and conversations, we’ve hinted at some of the profiles of Saylor.org students – which includes thousands of individuals from a variety of backgrounds – but we’ve never introduced our readers to any of them. That is, not until now. This blog post kicks […]
Today’s blog post comes from Kevin Carey, the Director of Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation. On May 9, 2012, Carey attended the College Affordability and Innovation Roundtable, an event hosted by Aneesh Chopra, former U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration and Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia; Michael Saylor, Chairman, […]
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