Reading material associated with a K-12 or college level course can be organized into two broad categories: First you’ve got novels, short stories, poems, non-fiction books and essays that primarily consist of just words (maybe with the occasional image or diagram) on the printed page. Then you’ve got K-12 or college textbooks which curate a […]
MOOCs and Reading
Since I ended yesterday’s piece on MOOCs and textbooks on the subject of value, I’d like to look at what the general reading experience has been like for the MOOC classes I’ve taken so far to see what value texts in general bring to this flavor of education. As of now, I’ve finished ten courses started since […]
The MOOC and the Textbook
With Coursera’s recent announcement that it would be offering free e-books that could be used during the run time of some of its courses, the subject of textbooks comes to the fore. In the interest of full disclosure, I need to admit that I briefly worked at one of the big textbook publishers (albeit overseeing […]
A MOOC Backlash?
Before getting started, a family obligation means that the Degree of Freedom weekly newsletter will likely be published on Tuesday (rather than the usual Monday morning). So that gives anyone who has not signed up yet an extra day to punch your e-mail address into that box to the right to receive regular progress reports […]
Interview with edX President Anant Agarwal
I’m happy to provide Degree of Freedom readers with their first taste of multimedia at the site: an audio recording of an interview with edX President Anant Agarwal. I had the great pleasure of talking to Anant a day before edX’s first anniversary where he shared a number of insights into edX’s involvement in and […]
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