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In the News/Playing Ketsup

October 15, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

A trip to the White Mountains combined with an unruly WordPress login screen prevented me from posting yesterday, so special apologies for new visitors who caught wind of this Degree of Freedom project from its recent mention in the Wall Street Journal. Having greeted new visitors from other media sources over the last several months, […]

Interview with Lynne Harlow, Instructor for MOMA’s Online Course Experimenting with Collage

October 11, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

This week, another discussion with someone whose work might help square some of the circles confronted by those involved with massive open online classes. The artist Lynne Harlow recently completed teaching a course entitled Experimenting with Collage for the online learning program created by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. MOMA has been at the […]

Yes I Kant

October 10, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Online Learning, Philosophy, Time

It’s been a few months since I tried my hand at applying some of the subject matter I’ve been studying to issues arising out of the existence of massive open online courses. I previously used course topics such as economics, utilitarianism and entropy as a springboard for discussion of meta-matters related to MOOCs, but today […]

My Senior Thesis

October 9, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

I hinted at the possibility of filling the last slot in my Senior Year lineup with something other than a MOOC (or other free learning course).   Lack of detail surrounding that option was due to the fact that I’ve been waiting for word on a writing project that would shuffle things up for the rest […]

Advice for Fellow MOOC Maniacs

October 8, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Testing and Assessment, Time

The number of people writing to say they’re planning to take on their own Degree-of-Freedom like project in the near future has grown from one a month to one a day. The stories these folks tell are varied (I’ve heard from at least two older people telling me they were actively looking to become a […]

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