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Saylor Free Open Textbooks - professorduck - 09-14-2017
I was wondering if you can pass a Saylor Exam by just reading the Open Textbook associated with the course
https://www.saylor.org/books/
As I go through the course it seems like some of the sources you read and videos you watch duplicate the info.
RE: Saylor Free Open Textbooks - ronaldemail1 - 09-17-2017
(09-14-2017, 08:22 AM)professorduck Wrote: I was wondering if you can pass a Saylor Exam by just reading the Open Textbook associated with the course
https://www.saylor.org/books/
As I go through the course it seems like some of the sources you read and videos you want duplicate the info.
If you read the whole book, you will pass. But remember that the Saylor course requires you usually to read
only certain parts of the book. You will study some parts that are not required by the exam.
RE: Saylor Free Open Textbooks - a2jc4life - 09-21-2017
It probably depends on the course. I've just started the Intro to Statistics course, for instance, and it uses parts of several different textbooks. It could be a little confusing to figure out which information it's drawing from where without actually working your way through the course.
RE: Saylor Free Open Textbooks - davewill - 09-22-2017
That was certainly true of Sociology. However, Env Ethics didn't draw from a single text, the material was completely scattered across the web.
RE: Saylor Free Open Textbooks - bernieyeater - 10-01-2017
I have taken MicroEconomics, MacroEconomics, and Introduction to Business on Saylor and the free textbooks listed at Saylor were most helpful. I also used audio books from Audible to take advantage of my 1 hour commute. The most helpful audio books were the Great Courses, and Vango. Audible has a $14 a month subscription that saved me quite a bit of money. For example the Great Course Economics by Tim Taylor is listed as $39.95, but using my monthly $14 credit, it was $14.
RE: Saylor Free Open Textbooks - sylr - 11-14-2017
Disclosure: I'm on Saylor staff.
Echoing the above, it really depends on the course; some courses have many different materials, while others rely on just a few consistent resources. For each course, there is a "resources" link that can give you a good sense of what to expect.
Use the regular (non-credit) exam early and often (up to once every 7 days) for practice and to guide your study. We also have a kind of hidden search page (saylor.org/search) that can make it much easier to track down information that browsing through a course.
Understand that, historically, we've been about the course experience. What that means is that the best preparation for the exam is the course and its particular materials/sequence. But if you learn how to mine the course and resources, you can move more quickly through. This is our official take: https://sayloracademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000744614-How-to-Study-for-Final-Exams
https://sayloracademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000744614-How-to-Study-for-Final-Exams
Sean
Saylor Academy