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Welcome New York Times Readers

March 20, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

For any visitors not linking here from the New York Times site, the Times Education section ran a terrific piece this morning on what it means to be an independent learner in an age of information abundance (or overload). The piece uses my One Year BA project as an example of a structured approach to education […]

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March 2, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

A couple of announcements for friends, fans and followers. First, that book event I mentioned last time taking place tomorrow evening at Harvard’s new Ed Portal is going to be livestreamed at https://new.livestream.com/accounts/8714559/events/3839785.  So if you can’t make it to Alston to listen, talk and maybe pick up a book, tune in to the stream […]

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 […]

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