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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 […]

Evidence

December 17, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

I had hoped to start this series on what a One Year BA adds up to yesterday (as well as churn out one more newsletter/course review).  But the day was instead spent trying to finish up this portfolio which documents the scope of work that has gone into this project. The portfolio was created using […]

Interview with Danny King of Accredible and David Blake of Degreed

November 15, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, College Credit, Interviews

On today’s podcast, we’re joined by the founders of two different companies: Degreed and Accredible, each of which are dedicated to helping students – including MOOC students –signal their learning through the use of portfolio systems that take different approaches to how students can communicate their traditional and non-traditional educational accomplishments to the world. If […]

Independent Educational Portfolios – Accredible

October 2, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Degree of Freedom Project

The second educational portfolio product birthed during the MOOC era is Accredible and you can take a look at a half-finished Accredible portfolio of the work I’ve done for my Degree of Freedom project here. As I mentioned yesterday, a traditional educational portfolio is made up of work samples (called artifacts), with space allowing students to […]

Evidence

September 30, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Degree of Freedom Project

With my senior year technically starting tomorrow, it’s looking increasingly likely that I’ll be able to finish my One Year BA by the end of the year as planned. When I interviewed Scott Young about his own extreme learning project (the MIT Challenge), he mentioned the value of having collected and made public evidence demonstrating […]

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