While the first six weeks of this blog were dedicated to subjects that each required a full week of entries to flesh out (an introduction to what this project is about, course components, course providers, time, testing, and credit), it’s now time to switch to a new mode where I’ll be talking about different subjects […]
HuffPo, MOOC News and Reviews
Well one of the more bizarre weeks ever experienced by we Bostonians is thankfully ending without more bloodshed. Just a quick note as the city recovers (and I try to play catch up) that highlights a few links. First, the latest Huffington Post Degree of Freedom entry can be seen here. Second, a great new […]
The MOOC Credit Paradox
This might need to be a short posting, given that I’m in the midst of that multi-tasking that I recommend students never do while working on something important. But as I write this, one of the two suspects in last Monday’s Marathon bombing is at large, and last seen a couple of towns over tossing […]
Independent Educational Portfolios
Continuing the subject I ended with last time (“What is college for?”), traditional answers to that question include: College is a time for intellectual exploration (and even indulgence) College offers young people a rite of passage between the end of adolescence and young adulthood Completion of a college degree provides a credential that can be […]
College Credit by Exam
Continuing the discussion of how to make online learning count towards actual degree credits, the ACE accreditation service I described yesterday provides colleges and universities the means to judge whether a course taken by one institution (or taken online) is equivalent to a course taken locally. And as I mentioned in that posting, ACE approves […]
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