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MITX and HarvardX Research Findings – The “Typical” Student

January 27, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Research

Time to blend some of the data dweebiness you’ve been reading in the first two installments in this series with some of the philosophy dweebiness that can be blamed directly on my One Year BA. In this case, the fusion between these two worlds derived from having been reminded of the relevance of a particular […]

MITX and HarvardX Research Findings – CopyrightX

January 24, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Research

If I had been less of a wuss and chosen to drive through the snow to last Tuesday’s presentation of research findings from HarvardX, and had I made it and been fortunate enough to get to ask a question, the one I would have raised would have been about the results of one specific course […]

MITx and HarvardX Research Findings – 1

January 22, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Research

While nature was dumping mounds of snow on the region (albeit less than promised), Harvard and MIT decided to release a comparable amount of data to the public that provides some important insight that can inform the next round of discussions surrounding MOOCs, discussions that promise to go beyond the inflated expectations that began 2013 […]

The Trolley Problem

December 31, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Philosophy

While the sessions of the American Philosophical Society I described yesterday covered work I hadn’t directly studied during my One Year BA (albeit by philosophers I had taken courses on), the last session I attended dealt directly with something first discovered through a MOOC course: The Trolley Problem. For those unfamiliar with it, the Trolley […]

Senior Slump

December 23, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

I promised to deliver the good, the bad and the ugly with regard to this project, so in between some of the loftier commentary accompanying the end of my One Year BA, I need to fess up to the agro I’ve had completing my last course for Senior Year: HarvardX’s Science and Cooking. First off, […]

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