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Interview with the edX/HarvardX Greek Hero MOOC Team

June 14, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

This week, we’re joined by the team behind The Ancient Greek Hero, one of Harvard’s longest-running classes which has become one of the most talked about MOOCs on the Internet. Students enrolled in this edX class will recognize Professor Greg Nagy and his colleagues Leonard Muellner, Claudia Filos and Jeff Emanuel, a subset of a […]

MOOCs – How Far We’ve Come

June 13, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Online Learning

It occurred to me that some of the things I’ve written regarding the shortcomings or limitations of MOOCs might look like a form of ingratitude. After all, institutions around the world are paying tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to put their courses up on the web for free.  Companies like Coursera, edX and […]

Measuring MOOC Learning

June 12, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Online Learning

Given the response I could expect if I proposed to a major publication my desire to write a 300-part series on a single subject (even one as important as the revolution now underway in online learning), I’m a big fan of what blogs allow individuals to accomplish on their own. That said, their reverse chronological […]

MOOC Homework – Tech Talk

June 11, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, Testing and Assessment

The folks at Coursera have graciously allowed me to say a few words at their blog on the subject of succeeding on homework, quizzes and other assignments associated with MOOC courses. The focal message of that posting is to do what it takes to get the most out of MOOC assignments: pace yourself for maximum […]

Speculation

June 10, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Online Learning

People like to talk about which industry EdTech in general and MOOCs in particular most resemble. A recent analogy specific to MOOCs has to do with the textbook industry which, like online learning, was initially greeted as a threat to the professorate.  After all, if the expertise of the greatest teachers in a field were […]

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