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Hunting Big Game

July 18, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs

I ended yesterday’s piece with two options for making a million dollars, drawn from the wisdom of a 1963 cartoon based on the 1919 Snuffy Smith comic strip.  This advice includes: Find someone with two-million dollars and ask him for half; and Enter and win a contest with a million dollar prize And just as […]

MOOC Business Models

July 17, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs

Decades ago, I saw a cartoon based on the old Barney Google/Snuffy Smith cartoon strip.  In it, Barney (a city slicker living amidst hillbillies such as Snuffy and his wife Loweezy) excitedly plans a get-rich-quick scheme inspired by a book he had discovered entitled Two Ways to Make a Million Dollars or a Million Ways […]

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