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Welcome EdSurge Readers!

May 26, 2020 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, Online Learning

For those of you visiting after reading my most recent piece in EdSurge about how to improve the quality of lectures in courses taught remotely, that article is actually part of a series, the rest of which will cover discussion and assessments/assignments. I’m not sure yet where the next two entries will be published, so […]

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 […]

MOOC Grading

December 9, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, Testing and Assessment

One of the more challenging aspects of working with a MOOC provider to improve assessments (or, as I prefer to call them: “Active Learning Components”) is what all this assessment (sorry “Active Learning”) is supposed to add up to. After all, the way to improve MOOC quizzes and exams is by applying appropriate elements of […]

Rebekah Nathan’s Freshman Year

May 21, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, Cost of College, Research

This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Book/Film Reviews

I just finished a book that provides an interesting response to the question I hinted at in my last posting, namely, what makes up that component of the college experience that seems to command so much more of the cost of college than do classes alone? My Freshman Year, by Rebekah Nathan (a pseudonym, for […]

Hogwarts is Here! – MOOC from Other Worlds

May 7, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components

Tomorrow morning, I plan to record an interview with Russell Beale, one of the people behind the MOOC provider FutureLearn, a platform launched by Britain’s venerable Open University (the world’s oldest and still largest distance-education institution). A quick scan of their site demonstrates the success FutureLearn has had drawing in well-known British institutions such as […]

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