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Why Does College Cost So Much?

July 14, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Cost of College

This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Book/Film Reviews

The title of today’s entry sums up the question I’ve been trying to answer during Monday postings over the last several months. But it is also the title of one of the most intriguing books on the subject of the price of college: Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman’s Why Does College Cost So […]

Ivory Tower

July 7, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Cost of College

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Book/Film Reviews

Back when I started my Degree of Freedom project, I heard word of a film in the making that would center on MOOCs which I later learned had branched out from that subject to more broadly discuss the current state of higher education. I’m guessing that Ivory Tower, a documentary currently doing the rounds at […]

MOOCs In Search of a Problem

June 20, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Online Learning

That web site update I mentioned earlier will likely be finished over the weekend and for blog readers the only significant change will be that these entries will now appear on a specific blog page, rather than making up the entirety of the site. New pages focus on my upcoming book (which now looks slated […]

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 […]

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