Speaking is picking up again, enough so that I’m planning to add a speaking-schedule piece to this site sometime in the next few weeks. In the meantime, if anyone is attending this week’s MOOCs for Development (MOOCS4D) conference at the University of Pennsylvania, I’ll be there for the first day (Thursday), taking part in their “Buzz […]
What’s a Free College Class Really Worth?
When people ask if my Degree of Freedom project actually involved taking dozens of free college courses, my answer usually hinges on what they mean by a “college course.” If you think of a college course as a unit of currency, for instance, one of 30 or so educational “payments” made towards a diploma from […]
Interview with Lindsay Murphy from the Saylor Foundation
Today we are joined by Lindsay Murphy, Education Project Manager for the Saylor Foundation – a non-profit provider of free online college courses. Saylor provides curated courses, meaning they are built using public domain and open access content drawn from the web and other public sources. You can read a review of an advanced philosophy […]
HBX – Harvard Business School Gets Into the Game
During a year spent learning about MOOCs and listening to the people who make them, I noticed a continued curiosity over what those Harvard Business School (HBS) guys were cooking up with regard to their anticipated foray into large-scale online education. The assumption seemed to be that if anyone could figure out a way to […]
What My Free MOOC BA Might Mean for Tomorrow’s College Kids (and Their Parents)
The site seems to be drawing more readers whose interest in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other forms of free learning is based around one of the questions I’ve been trying to answer over the last year: what do these new, no-cost resources mean for students (and their parents) contemplating their options in a […]
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