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MOOCs: The First Blurb

October 28, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

  When do you know your book has actually been published? When your parents tell you then can order it from Amazon and when the first blurb on it appears in the Library Journal: Amid the debate concerning the future of higher education, some of the more interesting voices are those that highlight the liberating […]

MOOCS – The Actual Physical Object

September 24, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

Check out what showed up on my doorstep yesterday:

Getting Back to MOOCs

September 11, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

With the Essential Guide to MOOCs just a few weeks away from publication, I recently posted answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about massive open learning at the MIT Press website. That Q&A session is reproduced below. Also, if you’re in the market to take a free course or two, WGBH asked […]

My HarvardX “Embed”

September 4, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, MOOC Providers, Testing and Assessment

As some of you already know, I’ve recently started a six-month engagement as the inaugural Visiting Fellow at HarvardX. During that time, I’ll be focusing on how to improve assessment within HarvardX’s growing catalog of online learning experiences (which I’ve already learned should not all be described under the term “courses”). And my mandate (and […]

Dog Days

August 10, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

Well I’ve got some exciting news to report, as well as some updates on MOOCs, the cost of college, and that continuing analysis on how to afford to send your kids to school in the newsletter.  But all of that is going to have to wait a couple of weeks as we enter the dog […]

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