Continuing the subject I ended with last time (“What is college for?”), traditional answers to that question include: College is a time for intellectual exploration (and even indulgence) College offers young people a rite of passage between the end of adolescence and young adulthood Completion of a college degree provides a credential that can be […]
College Credit by Exam
Continuing the discussion of how to make online learning count towards actual degree credits, the ACE accreditation service I described yesterday provides colleges and universities the means to judge whether a course taken by one institution (or taken online) is equivalent to a course taken locally. And as I mentioned in that posting, ACE approves […]
ACEing College
One of things that motivated me to blog about this subject was a recognition that that the conversation about the MOOC phenomenon seemed to be getting ahead of itself, with too much discussion of how MOOCs might replace traditional college informed by too little end-user experience regarding the actual level of learning associated with taking […]
Doing MOOCs Right
Some of the observations I’ve made over the last few weeks with regard to many free classes I’ve been taking being easier to complete than equivalent classes I remember from college needs to be tempered by a couple of critical points. First, not all open classes are equivalent in terms of their mission or required […]
Odds and Ends and Sophomore Year
Starting with some housekeeping: First, welcome all you Boston Globe readers out there. If you’re interested in getting the skinny on this project, you can start by reading my first post which introduced what’s behind this experiment in extreme learning. And anyone who wants to follow my progress can subscribe to the weekly newsletter by […]
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