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Palo Alto College Projects $225,000 savings from Saylor OER Textbook Adoption

Posted on April 8, 2015 (November 19, 2018) by Jeff Davidson

We want to share some great news out of San Antonio, Texas. Palo Alto College, part of the Alamo College family, has adopted an openly licensed textbook that was originally published as part of our Open Textbook Challenge. Professor John Dunn, who serves as Department Chair, informed us that a faculty review committee officially adopted […]

Course Peer Reviewer

Saylor Academy seeks experienced subject-matter experts to review its online, OER-based courseware. Peer reviewers are responsible for reading and evaluating courseware and providing feedback on courses’ overall rigor, quality, and cohesiveness through a provided comprehensive questionnaire. Because this feedback is essential to Saylor Academy’s success, an honorarium of $250 is awarded for each review. Requirements In order to […]

Giving and getting feedback for your work

Posted on March 25, 2015 (November 19, 2018) by Sean Connor

Seeking feedback on the work that you do as a learner is important. For one thing, it implies that you create your work with an expectation of sharing it, which has cognitive benefits (see #13, “15 Surprising Discoveries About Learning“). For another thing, it allows you to gather others’ perspectives, insights, and critiques toward improving your knowledge and […]

Certificate Chain Issues with Gandi SHA2 Certificates

Posted on March 12, 2015 (November 19, 2018) by Admin Admin

Earlier in the week, you may have noticed some… issues when connecting to our sites. Last Friday, I had updated our SSL certificates to new SHA2 certificates from Gandi. I went through the normal process to get a replacement certificate: specifying SHA2 in the CSR, grabbing the newly generated certificate and intermediate certificate, replacing them […]

Soft Launch of Moodle-Based Saylor Courses

Posted on March 3, 2015 (November 19, 2018) by Devon Ritter

As mentioned in a previous post a few months ago and discussed in our recent Hangout on Air, we have been working on updating various components of our site and courses. Phase I of this (or at least the first part to be public facing) was the redesign of our website in September. We announced then that, moving […]