As a substitute for the Degree of Freedom podcast I didn’t have time to put together this week, I’d like to talk about an educational podcast that has become a favored learning activity since finishing my One Year BA. Last summer, I kind of drew a line with regard to what constitutes a course in […]
Forget About MOOCs – What’s an Actual College Diploma Worth?
Over the last couple of Monday’s I’ve started to address what my Degree of Freedom project might mean for students and parents trying to figure out what’s next for them as they think about applying, selecting and shelling out thousands for college. Questions regarding whether I worked as hard or learned as much during my […]
Comings and Goings – MOOCS4D and Tufts
Speaking is picking up again, enough so that I’m planning to add a speaking-schedule piece to this site sometime in the next few weeks. In the meantime, if anyone is attending this week’s MOOCs for Development (MOOCS4D) conference at the University of Pennsylvania, I’ll be there for the first day (Thursday), taking part in their “Buzz […]
What’s a Free College Class Really Worth?
When people ask if my Degree of Freedom project actually involved taking dozens of free college courses, my answer usually hinges on what they mean by a “college course.” If you think of a college course as a unit of currency, for instance, one of 30 or so educational “payments” made towards a diploma from […]
Interview with Lindsay Murphy from the Saylor Foundation
Today we are joined by Lindsay Murphy, Education Project Manager for the Saylor Foundation – a non-profit provider of free online college courses. Saylor provides curated courses, meaning they are built using public domain and open access content drawn from the web and other public sources. You can read a review of an advanced philosophy […]
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