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Interview with Russell Beal of FutureLearn

May 16, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Today we are joined by Russell Beal, “Critical Friend” for the (relatively) new UK MOOC provider FutureLearn. FutureLearn is a spin off from Britain’s Open University (OU), the world’s largest academic provider of distance education.  And in today’s discussion, Russell shares his thoughts about OU, FutureLearn, and what the entrance of new players means for […]

Interview with Lindsay Murphy from the Saylor Foundation

April 4, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Today we are joined by Lindsay Murphy, Education Project Manager for the Saylor Foundation – a non-profit provider of free online college courses. Saylor provides curated courses, meaning they are built using public domain and open access content drawn from the web and other public sources.  You can read a review of an advanced philosophy […]

Interview with Tim Mauri of Ethicon

March 14, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

Today we are joined by Tim Mauri, Marketing Manager for US Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery at Ethicon, Inc., a Johnson and Johnson company. Tim is one of the people behind Ethicon’s experiment in online learning that involves releasing a course for medical specialists using the edX platform.  And on today’s show, we talk about the course, […]

Interview with HarvardX Researcher Justin Reich

February 28, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews, Research

Today’s podcast guest is Justin Reich, Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow, a Fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a visiting lecturer in the Scheller Teacher Education Program at MIT. Justin was that guy some of you saw on stage when Harvard released its research findings back in January.  And […]

Interview with Archie Abrams from Udemy

February 7, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Interviews

First off, greetings to visitors from Slate Magazine, and if you’re trying to orient yourself to a project that’s been going on for just over a year, a good place to start is this first blog entry that talks about what I was trying to with my One Year BA program, and some analysis I […]

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