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How Much Can You Learn For Free?

February 23, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

If anyone’s interested in meeting up, or just hearing a talk about MOOCs and my Degree of Freedom One Year BA project, I’ll be giving a talk at Harvard’s new Ed Portal in Allston next Tuesday, March 3rd, at 6:30 PM:   Word has it that food and drink will be served, and there will […]

MOOCs: More than the Sum of their Parts

February 9, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Uncategorized

I finally got to star in my own MOOC! Well, a mini-MOOC anyway.  Or a SPOC.  Or whatever you want to call what we previously called “online learning” before the MOOC phenom created a new set of categories with associated acronyms. My course is actually an internal one for HarvardX that attempts to make the […]

Free Community College

January 27, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Cost of College

Well Snowmageddonpocalypse means a day of lolling, cooking and pondering, including noddling down some thoughts regarding recent discussions about free community college for all. Well, not “all” exactly.  But the proposal from the White House that’s been bandied about (one that was mentioned during the recent State of the Union address) wants to translate the aspirational […]

New News

January 13, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

For those of you who still need a “fix” with regard to debating the cost of college, I just restarted my Huffington Post column and plan to focus on the subject over the next few months.  While I’ll be drawing from some of the research I did last year, this Huffpo series will provide a […]

MOOCs in 2015

January 5, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Online Learning, Online Learning Sources

Now that we’re a good three years past “The Year of the MOOC,” I decided to see how far we’ve come since the New York Times named 2012 after the massive open online course by looking at what it would take to put together a new One Year BA curriculum using free-learning resources available two […]

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