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 […]
Day Off
I need to polish off some work on the senior thesis chapter I worked on over the weekend (as well as get this week’s Degree of Freedom Newsletter out – this one reviewing the Great Courses class I just finished up entitled Why Evil Exists). So no other thoughts from me on today’s blog, although […]
Procrastination – MOOCs and Timing
During a month which requires juggling 6-7 classes, I seem to be doing the same thing I did last time the timing of courses reached this level of concentration: blowing off my Udacity class. Previously, it was Udacity’s Intro to Statistics that I stretched out for weeks and months until I finally made it a […]
In the News/Playing Ketsup
A trip to the White Mountains combined with an unruly WordPress login screen prevented me from posting yesterday, so special apologies for new visitors who caught wind of this Degree of Freedom project from its recent mention in the Wall Street Journal. Having greeted new visitors from other media sources over the last several months, […]
Yes I Kant
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 […]
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