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Learning Leisurely

January 15, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Time

With a couple of courses from last year continuing (ChinaX which runs all year, and some mop-up on Science and Cooking), I’ve been able to enjoy MOOCs under very different circumstances than last year when any one course had to compete with 5-6 others. It occurred to me that this must be what “normal” MOOC […]

A One Year BA? – The Prosecution

December 18, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Degree of Freedom Project, Time

After coming up with the idea of a One Year BA, the next step was to calculate whether it was even possible to fit 30+ MOOC and other free learning courses that would meet the degree requirements of a liberal arts college or university into a twelve month timeframe. There were a fair number of […]

Hacking Homework

December 11, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Testing and Assessment, Time

“Hacking” is a verb that’s attached itself to all kinds of nouns these days, generating phrases meant to imply working around standard operating procedures in order to achieve an end result as good or better (and often more quickly) than what you’d get by following the rules. The concept obviously originates in the computer programming […]

MOOCs and Cramming

November 18, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Time

Working my way through four years worth of classes over the last eleven months required dusting off those academic study habits that tend to go fallow post graduation. This includes good habits such as pacing your work, reading books and articles closely and quietly, taking notes during lectures, researching thoroughly and double-checking written assignments for […]

Singing the Praises of Short MOOCs

November 12, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Online Learning, Time

Well the professor for Coursera’s Fall and Rise of Jerusalem threw a peer-review essay project at us at the end of the course.  And while it’s nice to have to do some writing after a fairly long creative assignment drought, it does mean that it will take another few days to finish the class I […]

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