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Independent Educational Portfolios

April 18, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit

Continuing the subject I ended with last time (“What is college for?”), traditional answers to that question include: College is a time for intellectual exploration (and even indulgence) College offers young people a rite of passage between the end of adolescence and young adulthood Completion of a college degree provides a credential that can be […]

College Credit by Exam

April 17, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit

Continuing the discussion of how to make online learning count towards actual degree credits, the ACE accreditation service I described yesterday provides colleges and universities the means to judge whether a course taken by one institution (or taken online) is equivalent to a course taken locally. And as I mentioned in that posting, ACE approves […]

ACEing College

April 16, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit

One of things that motivated me to blog about this subject was a recognition that that the conversation about the MOOC phenomenon seemed to be getting ahead of itself, with too much discussion of how MOOCs might replace traditional college informed by too little end-user experience regarding the actual level of learning associated with taking […]

Questions and Communication

March 15, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Degree of Freedom Project

I’ve received a number of questions, both in the comments section and through the Contact form, and while it’s still manageable to do so, I’m going to try to reserve time on Fridays to answer as many of these as I can. The first one came from commenter Steve who wondered if I will be […]

MOOC vs. iTunes: Auditing vs. “Taking” Classes

March 13, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Degree of Freedom Project

In a traditional college setting, there is a distinction between taking a class (which includes fulfilling all course requirements) and simply auditing it (i.e., just sitting through the lectures).  In the world of MOOCs and other free online classes, however, this difference is not so clear. For most “brick-and-mortar” (and even online) degree-granting colleges and […]

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