Hearing about this Degree of Freedom project, a friend who teaches at a university made the comment that online learning does the most for people who need it the least. I appreciate the sentiment, especially from someone who teaches at ground level where many students struggle to pay attention and keep up with their work, […]
Degree of Freedom at HuffPo
A recap of some of the MOOC economics discussions from earlier this week (as well as a surprising comment I hope to respond to) over at Huffington Post.
The MOOC Gorilla
When I started an economic discussion of MOOCs and what they’re worth, I anticipated someone would bring up the two-ton-ape economic controversy surrounding free online college-level courses: their impact on the traditional academy. I didn’t anticipate that this would coincide with yesterday’s story regarding the high-profile refusal of the Philosophy Department at San Jose University […]
What’s a MOOC Worth?
If you look at how we pay for college using the “per-credit” economic model I described yesterday (one that divides annual tuition by the number of courses taken per year to arrive at what we’ll pay for each credit in a traditional college environment), then we end up confronting some challenging questions. For if we peg […]
Highest Value
It dawned on me that, in addition to learning all kinds of things about online education in the process of taking 32 courses in twelve months, I’m also being exposed to a wide range of ideas in those classes that might provide insight into the phenomena being dissected on this blog. Which means that every […]
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