For reasons known only to the sprites living under the hood of search engines such as Google and Bing, the story on this site that continues to get more search engine traffic than any other is this piece on the distinction between xMOOCs (MOOCs based on professor-centric courses, usually associated with established universities and companies […]
Interview with Cathy Davidson of Duke University
Today’s interview is with Cathy Davidson, John Hope Franklin Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University, author of Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn, and the professor behind the upcoming Coursera MOOC on the history and future of higher education. Professor Davidson […]
August
As readers of the Degree of Freedom weekly newsletter already know, I’m planning to throttle back a little bit in August, partly in response to some scheduling-specific issues related to this project, but also to spend some time with my kids whose summer camp schedule lightens over the next few weeks. I’ll still be working […]
Level of Demand in MOOC Classes
I don’t know if it’s because it’s summertime or just the luck of the draw, but my junior year classes seem to be demanding less of me. Not that I’m not learning a great deal from them. In fact, my Coursera Mathematical Philosophy course started with a bang this week by demolishing Zeno’s Paradox through […]
Motivation on MOOC Classes
A few weeks back, I finally got around to printing out certificates for the MOOC courses I’ve completed so far. I remembered having done this when I found this stack of certificates in a pile of papers on the couch in my office, now dog-eared and crinkled from having other stuff piled on top of […]
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