an adventure in online learning
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project
For those of you who still need a “fix” with regard to debating the cost of college, I just restarted my Huffington Post column and plan to focus on the subject over the next few months. While I’ll be drawing from some of the research I did last year, this Huffpo series will provide a […]
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Online Learning, Online Learning Sources
Now that we’re a good three years past “The Year of the MOOC,” I decided to see how far we’ve come since the New York Times named 2012 after the massive open online course by looking at what it would take to put together a new One Year BA curriculum using free-learning resources available two […]
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Business of MOOCs, Class Components
Recently, the popular and edgy (for an airline anyway) JetBlue Air announced a partnership with Coursera that will make ten Coursera MOOCs part of a set of new inflight “Edutainment” options (alongside other content from organizations like National Geographic). Interestingly, only one of the courses on offer (an Introduction to Marketing MOOC from the Wharton […]
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, Testing and Assessment
One of the more challenging aspects of working with a MOOC provider to improve assessments (or, as I prefer to call them: “Active Learning Components”) is what all this assessment (sorry “Active Learning”) is supposed to add up to. After all, the way to improve MOOC quizzes and exams is by applying appropriate elements of […]
By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Cost of College
I’ve always been a sucker for tales involving getting rich (sort of) by flogging low-production printed matter to rubes. This interest started when I learned about the early days of the exploitation film industry, during which itinerant showmen would go town to town renting theatres for short screenings of films that promised (but rarely delivered) […]
Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long? (EdSurge – May 25, 2020)
It’s Time to Get Serious About Teaching Critical Thinking (Inside Higher Education – March 2, 2020)
Why the ‘Best’ Ideas in Education Technology and Reform Don’t Win (EdSurge – February 5, 2020)
Is Education Entering an “Age of Alternatives”? (EdSurge – March 2, 2019)