Well it’s been a week of extracurricular activities here at Degree of Freedom (including a speaking gig that starts in about four hours). So, rather than the usual posting, I’ve included some pointers to DoF appearances at different sites this week. First off, if you haven’t checked out MOOC News and Reviews recently, that interview […]
When is a MOOC Not a MOOC?
Coincidentally, the last three courses I reviewed in the weekly Degree of Freedom News (to which you can subscribe by punching in your e-mail over there to the right) all elicited similar commentary regarding whether a course felt like a college class vs. something else. Canvas.net’s Cheating in Online Courses, for example, seemed more like […]
MOOCs and Entropy
A couple of quick program notes: (1) Because I’m close to but haven’t quite completed the next courses I’d like to review, there will not be a Degree of Freedom newsletter this week (2) Check out an interview with yours truly at MOOC News and Reviews! With that out of the way, I’d like to […]
Interview with Jeff Young, Chronicle of Higher Education Senior Technology Editor
On this week’s podcast, I interview Jeff Young, Senior Technology Editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle has been covering the MOOC story since it inception, and has served as the (even-handed) platform where debates about the massive open online course phenomenon have played out. And as Senior Technology Editor for the go-to source […]
Hunting Big Game
I ended yesterday’s piece with two options for making a million dollars, drawn from the wisdom of a 1963 cartoon based on the 1919 Snuffy Smith comic strip. This advice includes: Find someone with two-million dollars and ask him for half; and Enter and win a contest with a million dollar prize And just as […]
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