The folks at Coursera have graciously allowed me to say a few words at their blog on the subject of succeeding on homework, quizzes and other assignments associated with MOOC courses. The focal message of that posting is to do what it takes to get the most out of MOOC assignments: pace yourself for maximum […]
Interview with Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng
Continuing the series of conversations with leaders in the MOOC movement and other people doing interesting things with free learning, this week we’re joined by Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera who tells us about his experience building one of the most powerful players in massive online courses. As mentioned last week, I’m in the process […]
Getting Around
Well Degree of Freedom has been getting around this week, so I wanted to point you towards: A new entry in the Coursera blog, this one providing recommendations for how students can best manage their time when taking MOOC classes A write-up providing background to the whole Degree of Freedom One Year BA project over […]
MOOC Providers – Udacity
Whenever MOOCs get mentioned in the media, the “Big Three” names always invoked are Coursera (reviewed on Monday), edX (which we explored yesterday) and Udacity, the third big player in this space which I’d like to take a look at today. Like Coursera, Udacity was founded by players in the original Stanford experiment in massive […]
MOOC Providers – edX
When the number of people enrolling in Stanford’s original experiment in free online learning exceeded expectations by an order of magnitude, educators, the media and policy makers took notice. But when Harvard and MIT each contributed $30 million to create the online learning non-profit edX (which I’ve been inadvertently calling EdX until now), it was […]