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Interview with Katie Cleary, Community Director at MOOC Campus

June 28, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Can you create a college with no professors or administrators, just mentors and coaches helping students follow their own learning adventure? The Black Mountain Self Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) is attempting to answer that question with their new MOOC Campus project, an experiment in independent, self-directed education that provides a college environment where students can […]

Culture of Integrity – 2

June 27, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Testing and Assessment

Other research results we learned about in that online cheating MOOC mentioned in the first part of this discussion include: Cheating levels tend to go down as the risk and level of punishment associated with getting caught go up If cheating requires more work than simply doing the assignment honestly, people will not go down […]

A Culture of Integrity – 1

June 26, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Testing and Assessment

For the final project for my Canvas.net class Understanding Cheating in Online Courses, I need to (and I quote from the course’s web page – so you know I’m not plagiarizing): “design a plan of action for helping to cultivate a culture of academic honesty and integrity in one or more specific contexts (like the […]

My Junior Year Lineup

June 25, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

The choice of courses for junior year of the Degree of Freedom One Year BA project (which will run from July through September) is being driven by the need to focus on my major (which means finding and taking more advanced philosophy courses).  And since these are harder to come by in the MOOCiverse (at […]

Catching Everyone Up

June 24, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

It looks like a number of new visitors have been stopping by the site lately, likely a result of the new podcast that has included interviews with some of the most important thought leaders in online education. So in an effort to catch people up on the Degree of Freedom project (and to catch up […]

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