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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 […]

Udacity Certificates – Another Pivot

April 30, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, College Credit, MOOC Providers

Udacity sort of fell off the MOOC radar once they announced a change in plans to focus more on professional training than the total transformation of what it means to attend college. Initially, this re-orientation was greeted as an admission by the company that got the current MOOC ball rolling that massive open courses would […]

HBX – Harvard Business School Gets Into the Game

April 2, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, MOOC Providers

During a year spent learning about MOOCs and listening to the people who make them, I noticed a continued curiosity over what those Harvard Business School (HBS) guys were cooking up with regard to their anticipated foray into large-scale online education. The assumption seemed to be that if anyone could figure out a way to […]

MOOC Platforms

March 24, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, MOOC Providers

I recently received a note from American Online congratulating me for having been a user of their mail service for twenty years. Unsurprisingly, my kids greeted the news with a sneer followed by an eye roll.  For they, after all, are far more hip than either I or their mom (another AOL user) having revolted […]

My Visit to Coursera

January 30, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: MOOC Providers

I’m on a West Coast swing this week that will finish with a talk at Fullerton College for their 100th Anniversary Futures Conference (seats are still available for anyone in the area). The trip got off to the right start with a cup of coffee with one of the founders of Accredible (the folks behind […]

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