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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 […]

Final Exam

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

I’m typing this on my way back home from the 2013 Eastern Division conference of the American Philosophical Association, a conclave where over a thousand philosophers (mostly professors and graduate students) gathered in Baltimore to ponder the universe, torture job-seekers and fret about funding for the field. Before the holidays, I argued that one method […]

Interview with Lynne Harlow, Instructor for MOMA’s Online Course Experimenting with Collage

October 11, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

This week, another discussion with someone whose work might help square some of the circles confronted by those involved with massive open online classes. The artist Lynne Harlow recently completed teaching a course entitled Experimenting with Collage for the online learning program created by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. MOMA has been at the […]

Yes I Kant

October 10, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Online Learning, Philosophy, Time

It’s been a few months since I tried my hand at applying some of the subject matter I’ve been studying to issues arising out of the existence of massive open online courses. I previously used course topics such as economics, utilitarianism and entropy as a springboard for discussion of meta-matters related to MOOCs, but today […]

Self Study

October 7, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Online Learning Sources

I’m faced with a bit of a gap as junior year classes wrap up and senior year ones start, so no newsletter this week. While next week’s issue will feature a review of Coursera’s just-completed Mathematical Philosophy course, I’d like to take a brief look today at my experience trying to self-curate a course – […]

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