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Welcome Chronicle of Higher Education Readers

May 20, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

Well that latest blip on my site’s radar indicates that Chronicle of Higher Education story about this Degree of Freedom project hit the ether. So for anyone stopping by for the first time, here is the skinny on what I’m doing. As the Chronicle story mentioned, my goal is to complete 32 free online classes […]

Interview with Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng

May 17, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Continuing the series of conversations with leaders in the MOOC movement and other people doing interesting things with free learning, this week we’re joined by Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera who tells us about his experience building one of the most powerful players in massive online courses. As mentioned last week, I’m in the process […]

What Might a MOOC-Text Look Like?

May 16, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Textbooks

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

May 15, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, Textbooks

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

May 14, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Textbooks

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 […]

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