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Welcome New York Times Readers

March 20, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

For any visitors not linking here from the New York Times site, the Times Education section ran a terrific piece this morning on what it means to be an independent learner in an age of information abundance (or overload). The piece uses my One Year BA project as an example of a structured approach to education […]

Announcements

March 2, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

A couple of announcements for friends, fans and followers. First, that book event I mentioned last time taking place tomorrow evening at Harvard’s new Ed Portal is going to be livestreamed at https://new.livestream.com/accounts/8714559/events/3839785.  So if you can’t make it to Alston to listen, talk and maybe pick up a book, tune in to the stream […]

How Much Can You Learn For Free?

February 23, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

If anyone’s interested in meeting up, or just hearing a talk about MOOCs and my Degree of Freedom One Year BA project, I’ll be giving a talk at Harvard’s new Ed Portal in Allston next Tuesday, March 3rd, at 6:30 PM:   Word has it that food and drink will be served, and there will […]

New News

January 13, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

For those of you who still need a “fix” with regard to debating the cost of college, I just restarted my Huffington Post column and plan to focus on the subject over the next few months.  While I’ll be drawing from some of the research I did last year, this Huffpo series will provide a […]

MOOCs in 2015

January 5, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Online Learning, Online Learning Sources

Now that we’re a good three years past “The Year of the MOOC,” I decided to see how far we’ve come since the New York Times named 2012 after the massive open online course by looking at what it would take to put together a new One Year BA curriculum using free-learning resources available two […]

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