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MOOCs on a Plane- Coursera and JetBlue

December 17, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, Class Components

Recently, the popular and edgy (for an airline anyway) JetBlue Air announced a partnership with Coursera that will make ten Coursera MOOCs part of a set of new inflight “Edutainment” options (alongside other content from organizations like National Geographic). Interestingly, only one of the courses on offer (an Introduction to Marketing MOOC from the Wharton […]

Reading Assignment

June 13, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, College Credit

Apologies for the site being so up and down so much this week. This actually has nothing to do with the site update that’s underway (which I hope to have completed by the end of the weekend). Rather, a pair of unrelated server issues caused outages that stretched over a couple of highly frustrating days. […]

What Kind of Degree Can You “Buy” for $15,000 a Year?

May 19, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, College Credit

A couple of weeks back, I provided a back-of-the-envelope calculation that said the cost of college (even at the best schools ) should be no more than $15,000 per year or $60,000 for a full four-year degree program if the price of a post-secondary education had risen at the same rate as buying a home. I […]

Udemy and the Market

May 14, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs

Robert McGuire, the man behind MOOC News and Reviews, has a new gig running the blog for SkilledUp, one of the MOOC aggregators trying to bring order to the growing and increasingly chaotic field of online education (free or otherwise). In a recent feature-length story, McGuire takes a look at some of the controversies surrounding […]

Clayton Christensen on MOOC Disruption

May 12, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs

An important article written by Clayton Christensen and Michelle Weise appeared in yesterday’s Boston Globe that relates both to MOOCs (still the primary subject of this blog) and the Monday series I’ve been running lately on how MOOCs and other forms of free learning might provide today’s (or, more likely tomorrow’s) students options other than […]

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