A schedule conflict has pushed this week’s podcast off until next Friday. But for those hungry for a multimedia fix, here is a recording of a presentation I gave at the Saylor Foundation earlier this week in which I talk about the origins of the Degree of Freedom project as well as going over discoveries […]
Final Exams
On a couple of occasions over the last few weeks, I’ve mentioned my plan to use the last 2013 entries of this blog to ask questions about what this whole Degree of Freedom project adds up to. One obvious point to work through regards whether this experience actually has provided the equivalent amount of learning […]
Measuring MOOCs – Human vs. Data
I had no sooner finished drafting a section of my senior thesis which hails Canada’s contributions to the massive learning phenom than a note arrived from George Veletsianos, Canada Research Chair at the Royal Roads University School of Education and Technology. In it, Professor Veletsianos pointed me towards an e-book he and his students put […]
MOOCs Unmoored
Pieces like this one fit a pattern we’ve seen during the second half of this year where negative “backlash” stories have muscled out the educational utopianism attached to earlier media accounts of the MOOC phenomenon. Yet even when listing all the alleged failings of the massive online course, such stories still find it difficult to say […]
How Long Should a MOOC Go On?
I got my biggest Halloween scare right before the sun went down and I logged into my edX account to see what ChinaX, Harvard’s latest edition to their MOOC catalog, would demand of me between now and the end of the year (when I anticipated its conclusion would wrap up my One Year BA). Imagine […]
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