Having justified the virtues of “The Course,” in contrast to other methods of learning, I’d like to now make a similar case stressing the universal value of courses taught at the undergraduate level (the teaching level of most if not all MOOC classes). Speaking broadly – and North Americanly (is that a word?), I first like […]
Education by Podcast?
Given that some of the best material in that curated course I mentioned last time comes from podcasts, this opens up the question of whether something other than a formal or informal course (be it delivered via a traditional classroom, as a MOOC, or through a recorded lecture series) can be used as the basis […]
xMOOCs vs. cMOOCs Revisited
For reasons known only to the sprites living under the hood of search engines such as Google and Bing, the story on this site that continues to get more search engine traffic than any other is this piece on the distinction between xMOOCs (MOOCs based on professor-centric courses, usually associated with established universities and companies […]
MOOCs and Entropy
A couple of quick program notes: (1) Because I’m close to but haven’t quite completed the next courses I’d like to review, there will not be a Degree of Freedom newsletter this week (2) Check out an interview with yours truly at MOOC News and Reviews! With that out of the way, I’d like to […]
MOOCs and Entrepreneurship – Running the Numbers
For my 100th post at Degree of Freedom, I wanted to look at some numbers that can be used (or at least considered) by those thinking about trying their hand at some form of entrepreneurship connected to the rapidly expanding momentum of free learning. When I ran my own business oh so many years ago, […]
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