A couple of quick program notes: (1) Because I’m close to but haven’t quite completed the next courses I’d like to review, there will not be a Degree of Freedom newsletter this week (2) Check out an interview with yours truly at MOOC News and Reviews! With that out of the way, I’d like to […]
Interview with Jeff Young, Chronicle of Higher Education Senior Technology Editor
On this week’s podcast, I interview Jeff Young, Senior Technology Editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle has been covering the MOOC story since it inception, and has served as the (even-handed) platform where debates about the massive open online course phenomenon have played out. And as Senior Technology Editor for the go-to source […]
Hunting Big Game
I ended yesterday’s piece with two options for making a million dollars, drawn from the wisdom of a 1963 cartoon based on the 1919 Snuffy Smith comic strip. This advice includes: Find someone with two-million dollars and ask him for half; and Enter and win a contest with a million dollar prize And just as […]
MOOC Business Models
Decades ago, I saw a cartoon based on the old Barney Google/Snuffy Smith cartoon strip. In it, Barney (a city slicker living amidst hillbillies such as Snuffy and his wife Loweezy) excitedly plans a get-rich-quick scheme inspired by a book he had discovered entitled Two Ways to Make a Million Dollars or a Million Ways […]
MOOCs and Entrepreneurship – Running the Numbers
For my 100th post at Degree of Freedom, I wanted to look at some numbers that can be used (or at least considered) by those thinking about trying their hand at some form of entrepreneurship connected to the rapidly expanding momentum of free learning. When I ran my own business oh so many years ago, […]
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