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What’s the Most College Should Cost?

May 5, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, Cost of College

This entry is part 3 of 13 in the series Cost of College

In last week’s newsletter, I discussed some of the $10,000 BA programs that emerged after Texas Governor Rick Perry challenged the state’s college systems to come up with options that would allow students to graduate with a degree at that price point. As I noted then, this $10,000 degree concept is not about taking an […]

Udacity Certificates – Another Pivot

April 30, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, College Credit, MOOC Providers

Udacity sort of fell off the MOOC radar once they announced a change in plans to focus more on professional training than the total transformation of what it means to attend college. Initially, this re-orientation was greeted as an admission by the company that got the current MOOC ball rolling that massive open courses would […]

So What Actually is a “Degree”?

April 28, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, College Credit, Cost of College

This entry is part 2 of 13 in the series Cost of College

Returning to that continued Monday discussion of what new free learning tools might mean to students and parents staring down six-figure tuition bills (which allegedly buy a ticket to a better life), I read a story last week that clarifies why conversations containing the words “degree,” “diploma” and “college” seem to be so murky. The […]

HBX – Harvard Business School Gets Into the Game

April 2, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, MOOC Providers

During a year spent learning about MOOCs and listening to the people who make them, I noticed a continued curiosity over what those Harvard Business School (HBS) guys were cooking up with regard to their anticipated foray into large-scale online education. The assumption seemed to be that if anyone could figure out a way to […]

Executive Shuffles at Coursera and edX

March 27, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs

The big MOOC news this week involved the leadership changes taking place at the two biggest MOOC providers: Coursera and edX. As most readers probably already know, Coursera just announced that Richard Levin, former President of Yale, will be taking on the CEO role of the Silicon Valley based MOOC provider.  This means new roles […]

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