Earlier in the week, I gave a talk about this Degree of Freedom project to a group of educators, most of whom taught at community colleges in the Boston area. At first, I wasn’t sure about the reception I’d get from such an audience. While I didn’t anticipate hostility, one of the big MOOC controversies […]
MOOCs and Utilitarianism
Given that I’m taking a wide range of courses meant to be useful not just for edification but for life, I like to occasionally look at the topic of free learning through the lens of one of the subjects I’m studying. A couple of weeks back, I went over some economics questions regarding MOOCs using […]
Cheating on MOOCs
This is the first blog post I’ve done as a homework assignment. For the teacher in my new Canvas class in Understanding Cheating in Online Courses (Bernard Bull, Assistant Vice President of Academics and Associate Professor of Educational Design & Technology at Concordia), has asked those of us who blog to write something about their […]
Welcome Chronicle of Higher Education Readers
Well that latest blip on my site’s radar indicates that Chronicle of Higher Education story about this Degree of Freedom project hit the ether. So for anyone stopping by for the first time, here is the skinny on what I’m doing. As the Chronicle story mentioned, my goal is to complete 32 free online classes […]
Interview with Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng
Continuing the series of conversations with leaders in the MOOC movement and other people doing interesting things with free learning, this week we’re joined by Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera who tells us about his experience building one of the most powerful players in massive online courses. As mentioned last week, I’m in the process […]
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