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Interview with Jeff Young, Chronicle of Higher Education Senior Technology Editor

July 19, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

On this week’s podcast, I interview Jeff Young, Senior Technology Editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle has been covering the MOOC story since it inception, and has served as the (even-handed) platform where debates about the massive open online course phenomenon have played out.  And as Senior Technology Editor for the go-to source […]

Interview with Wesleyan President Michael Roth – Part 2

July 12, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

This week, I continue my discussion with Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University and the man behind Coursera’s The Modern and the Postmodern. Our conversation covers how his experience teaching a massive online course might impact how he teaches his live course in the future, as well as what MOOCs and other forms of technology-based learning mean […]

Interview with Wesleyan President Michael Roth – Part 1

July 5, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Michael Roth is President of Wesleyan University and the man behind The Modern and the Postmodern, a popular undergraduate class at Wesleyan and one of the most interesting humanities MOOCs (offered by Coursera). I’ve taken Roth’s course (and reviewed it here) and in a wide ranging interview we talked about his experience teaching his first […]

Interview with Katie Cleary, Community Director at MOOC Campus

June 28, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Can you create a college with no professors or administrators, just mentors and coaches helping students follow their own learning adventure? The Black Mountain Self Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) is attempting to answer that question with their new MOOC Campus project, an experiment in independent, self-directed education that provides a college environment where students can […]

Interview with Huntington Lambert, Dean of Continuing Education at Harvard

June 21, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

After a week of looking at the internal use of MOOCs within the college campus, we’re joined by Huntington Lambert, Harvard’s new Dean of Continuing Education. Along with programs like Harvard Summer School, the Division of Continuing Education oversees the Harvard Extension School where professors experienced in teaching adult learners have been the source for […]

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