Before getting started, a family obligation means that the Degree of Freedom weekly newsletter will likely be published on Tuesday (rather than the usual Monday morning). So that gives anyone who has not signed up yet an extra day to punch your e-mail address into that box to the right to receive regular progress reports […]
Interview with edX President Anant Agarwal
I’m happy to provide Degree of Freedom readers with their first taste of multimedia at the site: an audio recording of an interview with edX President Anant Agarwal. I had the great pleasure of talking to Anant a day before edX’s first anniversary where he shared a number of insights into edX’s involvement in and […]
Independent Learners
One of the missions of this site is to help determine the nature of an independent learner, someone who can conceivably take advantage of MOOCs and other free-learning resources to do more than just take a course now and then. Not that informal continuing education isn’t an important aspect of free learning (in my interview […]
The MIT Challenge
Imagine my surprise when, a few weeks after launching this Degree of Freedom One Year BA project, people were reaching out to tell me I had to talk to Scott Young – a guy who apparently did the same thing a year ago. Given the newness of the MOOC phenomenon, and the limited number of […]
Uncollege
The notion of not going to college as a distinct vocation made headlines in 2010 when Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, announced the Thiel Fellowship: a program that would award twenty students a year $100,000 if they promised to bag college and instead focus on starting or developing a business or engaging in research or […]
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