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MOOC Providers – edX

March 26, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: MOOC Providers, Online Learning Sources

When the number of people enrolling in Stanford’s original experiment in free online learning exceeded expectations by an order of magnitude, educators, the media and policy makers took notice.  But when Harvard and MIT each contributed $30 million to create the online learning non-profit edX (which I’ve been inadvertently calling EdX until now), it was […]

Quick Notes

March 25, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

First off, welcome all visitors from the wonderful Leiter Reports philosophy blog with special thanks to Professor Leiter for the mention and reader Lee for the pointer.  And, yes, I’m majoring in philosophy this year (and keeping my fingers cross enough advanced classes come online by the time I need them). Second, the latest Degree of […]

MOOC Providers – Coursera

March 25, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: MOOC Providers

This week, I’d like to focus on sources for free learning, starting with the “Big Three” providers who tend to get brought up in any news piece or discussion of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Coursera, EdX and Udacity. All three grew out of the original Stanford University experiment in open learning that made news, […]

MOOC Components – Assessment

March 22, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, Testing and Assessment

Assessment is such an important topic with regard to MOOCs and other new learning models that I plan to devote a week to the subject in April.  But for now, I’d like to provide an argument why testing is both the greatest vulnerability for moving MOOCs forward, as well as the ripest area for innovation […]

MOOC Components – Discussion

March 21, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components

One of the biggest criticisms leveled against not just MOOCs, but online learning in general is the lack of human connection in courses where students and teachers are primarily interacting with one another via technology. Lecture videos can be stunningly produced, can edit out a professor’s burps and brainfarts, and even integrate footage highlighting examples […]

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