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Interview with David Cox, Creator of HarvardX’s Fundamentals of Neuroscience MOOC

September 20, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

On this week’s podcast, I interview David Cox, Harvard Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Computer Science and the man behind MCB80x, a new HarvardX MOOC on the fundamentals of neuroscience. MCB80x starts next month, but buzz about the course has been growing, especially given Professor Cox’s plans to introduce new ways of interacting […]

Interview with Sanjay Sarma, MIT’s Director of Digital Learning

September 13, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

On this week’s podcast, MIT’s Director of Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma joins us to talk about what MOOCs mean both outside and inside the classroom. Professor Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the first person to hold the […]

Interview with Alison Farmer and Matthew Grant from Aquent Gymnasium

September 6, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

As promised yesterday, today’s podcast interview is with the people behind the newest MOOC provider on the block: Gymnasium from Aquent, one of the world’s leading staffing firms specializing in placing creative professionals. In addition to telling us about why a staffing firm decided to get into the MOOC game, today’s guests, Alison Farmer and […]

Interview with Cathy Davidson of Duke University

August 2, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Today’s interview is with Cathy Davidson, John Hope Franklin Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University, author of Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn, and the professor behind the upcoming Coursera MOOC on the history and future of higher education. Professor Davidson […]

Interview with Ethan Solomon on Computer Sciences MOOCs

July 26, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Because I’m majoring in philosophy for my One Year BA program, I’ve not had the chance to enroll in any of the computer sciences courses that have anchored the contemporary MOOC project since it got kicked off at Standard University with technology classes that are still some of the most popular courses on the Internet. […]

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