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Catching Up

April 22, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Online Learning, Time

While the first six weeks of this blog were dedicated to subjects that each required a full week of entries to flesh out (an introduction to what this project is about, course components, course providers, time, testing, and credit), it’s now time to switch to a new mode where I’ll be talking about different subjects […]

Doing MOOCs Right

April 15, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Class Components, Online Learning, Time

Some of the observations I’ve made over the last few weeks with regard to many free classes I’ve been taking being easier to complete than equivalent classes I remember from college needs to be tempered by a couple of critical points. First, not all open classes are equivalent in terms of their mission or required […]

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