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Interview with Danny King of Accredible and David Blake of Degreed

November 15, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, College Credit, Interviews

On today’s podcast, we’re joined by the founders of two different companies: Degreed and Accredible, each of which are dedicated to helping students – including MOOC students –signal their learning through the use of portfolio systems that take different approaches to how students can communicate their traditional and non-traditional educational accomplishments to the world. If […]

MOOCs and the Law

October 24, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs

If MOOCs are so great, how come no one has been sued over them yet? This sentiment is meant mostly in jest.  I say “mostly” because creators of other great innovations and new industries in the past have only been seen to have “made it” when someone finds them worth dragging into court. While the […]

Have MOOC Challenges Already Been Solved?

September 26, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs

Those in the MOOC business face a number of seemingly daunting challenges. What is the business model that can turn millions of subscribers into a profitable (or at least sustainable) business?  How can the intimacy normally associated with learning be replicated in classrooms containing tens of thousands of students?  Is there a solution to fundamental […]

MOOC.org

September 16, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, MOOC Providers

I kind of breezily mentioned MOOC.org, the new partnership between edX and Google, in a recent posting without addressing the significance of the coming together of the open-source course management system of one of the world’s premiere MOOC providers with, well… Google. Google has made forays into the educational s space over the years, notably by packaging […]

MOOCs and the Future – No Going Back

September 12, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, Online Learning

Simultaneous with a new semester starting in brick-and-mortar College-land we’re seeing new MOOC courses begin, coupled with a post-summer reboot of debates from earlier in the year regarding the plusses and minuses of massive online learning. Given that MOOCs still seem to be stuck between the Peak of Inflated Expectations and the Trough of Disillusionment […]

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