an adventure in online learning
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Degree of Freedom Project
With my senior year technically starting tomorrow, it’s looking increasingly likely that I’ll be able to finish my One Year BA by the end of the year as planned. When I interviewed Scott Young about his own extreme learning project (the MIT Challenge), he mentioned the value of having collected and made public evidence demonstrating […]
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit
The latest version of the “Glass-Half-Empty” critique of MOOCs focuses on recent pull-backs of attempts to make massive online courses count towards official college credit. As this story highlights, legislation submitted that would require colleges to accept MOOC credentials in California and Florida has been quietly shelved. And programs designed to eliminate hurdles that were […]
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit
My wife is part of a generation of historians of technology who helped moved the field from a focus on inventions and inventors to an investigation of the broader context in which technologies were introduced and succeeded (or failed). For instance, it’s easy to assume that technologies we now take for granted (such as the […]
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit
The loud debate over what would happen to traditional universities once students were able to receive actual college credit for completing a MOOC seems to presume that: (1) MOOC classes provided (and could measure) the same amount of learning as their brick-and-mortar equivalents (2) Presuming (1) was correct, mechanisms could be put in place to […]
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Online Learning
Given the response I could expect if I proposed to a major publication my desire to write a 300-part series on a single subject (even one as important as the revolution now underway in online learning), I’m a big fan of what blogs allow individuals to accomplish on their own. That said, their reverse chronological […]
Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long? (EdSurge – May 25, 2020)
It’s Time to Get Serious About Teaching Critical Thinking (Inside Higher Education – March 2, 2020)
Why the ‘Best’ Ideas in Education Technology and Reform Don’t Win (EdSurge – February 5, 2020)
Is Education Entering an “Age of Alternatives”? (EdSurge – March 2, 2019)