Data relating to MOOC activity has been trickling out for quite some time. For instance, the University of Edinburgh released this 42-page report detailing their analysis of statistics related to six courses they released via Coursera in 2013. And data related to edX’s popular Circuits and Electronics course has been making the rounds for quite […]
Singing the Praises of Short MOOCs
Well the professor for Coursera’s Fall and Rise of Jerusalem threw a peer-review essay project at us at the end of the course. And while it’s nice to have to do some writing after a fairly long creative assignment drought, it does mean that it will take another few days to finish the class I […]
Saylor Foundation Presentation
A schedule conflict has pushed this week’s podcast off until next Friday. But for those hungry for a multimedia fix, here is a recording of a presentation I gave at the Saylor Foundation earlier this week in which I talk about the origins of the Degree of Freedom project as well as going over discoveries […]
Final Exams
On a couple of occasions over the last few weeks, I’ve mentioned my plan to use the last 2013 entries of this blog to ask questions about what this whole Degree of Freedom project adds up to. One obvious point to work through regards whether this experience actually has provided the equivalent amount of learning […]
Measuring MOOCs – Human vs. Data
I had no sooner finished drafting a section of my senior thesis which hails Canada’s contributions to the massive learning phenom than a note arrived from George Veletsianos, Canada Research Chair at the Royal Roads University School of Education and Technology. In it, Professor Veletsianos pointed me towards an e-book he and his students put […]
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