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Why is the Cost of College What it Is?

June 16, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Cost of College

This entry is part 7 of 13 in the series Cost of College

Over the last few months, Monday postings have been dedicated to the cost of college, one of the driving forces behind the initial enthusiasm for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a potential replacement for a residential college experience that continues to be the choice for most students, despite a price tag spiraling beyond the […]

Reading Assignment

June 13, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, College Credit

Apologies for the site being so up and down so much this week. This actually has nothing to do with the site update that’s underway (which I hope to have completed by the end of the weekend). Rather, a pair of unrelated server issues caused outages that stretched over a couple of highly frustrating days. […]

Itemizing the Cost of College

June 9, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Cost of College

This entry is part 6 of 13 in the series Cost of College

In case you’re wondering what my Monday musings on the cost of college have to do with MOOCs and free learning, while I realized quite early that pre-backlash fantasies of MOOCs replacing traditional residential college programs were not realistic, this does not eliminate the possibility that new free learning tools might one day provide an […]

Interview with Michelle Weise on MOOC Disruption

June 6, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Today we are joined by Michelle Weise, Senior Research Fellow for Higher Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. Articles about massive open online courses (MOOCs) would be a lot shorter if shorn of words and phrases containing the word “disruption.”  But disruptive technology and the like are not simply catch phrases, but […]

Site Changes

June 3, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

As keen-eyed readers will have no-doubt observed, this site is going through some changes that I expect to be completed by the end of the week. First off, none of the content on the site is going away, nor do I plan to change my current schedule of 2-3 blog postings a week and 2-4 […]

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