The concept of community helpers or leaders offers a starting place for teaching civics to young learners. Students can make a connection to the idea, reflect on their experiences with it, and ask meaningful questions about the importance of helpers… Read More »Community Helpers, Leaders, and Primary Sources
Financial institutions are increasingly serving consumers in languages other than English. www.consumerfinance.gov · Public Domain
Including junk data and mistakes on people’s credit reports is against the law. www.consumerfinance.gov · Public Domain
Forgotten second mortgages may be coming back to haunt homeowners who haven’t received notices or account statements for years. www.consumerfinance.gov · Public Domain
CFPB Deputy Director Zixta Martinez discusses changes at the ASC since she became Chair in 2022, including enhanced state oversight, landmark hearings on appraisal bias, and improved collaboration with The Appraisal Foundation to create a more equitable and accountable appraisal… Read More »Strengthening Appraisal Oversight: Progress at the Appraisal Subcommittee
Argus Information and Advisory Services, a subsidiary of TransUnion, has agreed in writing that it will not seek any government contract with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for three years. www.consumerfinance.gov · Public Domain
The OER Foundation implemented its digital learning ecosystem in the Pacific region using cloud hosting services which cost only US$46 per month for the Commonwealth of Learning. Data generated from the inaugural Digital skills for OER Sharing course offered to… Read More »OER Foundation demonstrates an innovative and low cost cloud hosting solution for OER-enabled online courses in the Pacific
The OER Foundation contributed to an initiative led by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) in partnership with UNESCO and L’Université Numérique (The Digital University in France) to adapt the OERu’s Open education, copyright, and open licensing… Read More »French adaptation of OERu course builds technical capability for OER capacity development in multiple languages
During 2022, the OER Foundation supported capacity development of staff at the Samoan Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture (MESC) to establish and maintain their own instance of the OER Foundation’s award winning Free and Open Source (FOSS) Digital Learning… Read More »Samoan Ministry of Education implements the OER Foundation’s FOSS Digital Learning Ecosystem
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) commissioned the OER Foundation (OERF) to deploy its open digital infrastructure to host a growing inventory of OER-enabled online courses for the Pacific Partnership for Open, Distance and Flexible Learning, thereby providing an innovative and… Read More »OER Foundation’s open digital infrastructure powers the Pacific Partnership’s open online courses