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A Quick Announcement

January 10, 2019 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Uncategorized

For anyone who misses the regular blogging that took place here at Degree of Freedom until I went on hiatus a couple of years back, I’ve just kicked off a new blogging project called Critical Thinking Out Loud over at a new site I built to consolidate some of the “properties” associated with different education-related […]

Some Critical Voter Updates

February 17, 2016 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Uncategorized

I’ve added a few more pieces on Critical Thinking and the US election to the Critical Voter site. Stop by if you’re interested in finding answers to the following questions: Who predicted Donald Trump’s Iowa loss 2500 years ago? Does it make sense to settle an important election with a coin toss? How seriously should […]

The New Hampshire Primary

January 22, 2016 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Critical Thinking, Uncategorized

As mentioned last time, I’ll be cross-posting election/critical thinking related stories from Critical Voter here at Degree of Freedom, and going the other way with education-related stories posted here.  So read on regarding an upcoming delivery project to the candidates. Two boxes of pre-release print copies of Critical Voter arrived on my doorstep yesterday, so […]

MOOCs: More than the Sum of their Parts

February 9, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Uncategorized

I finally got to star in my own MOOC! Well, a mini-MOOC anyway.  Or a SPOC.  Or whatever you want to call what we previously called “online learning” before the MOOC phenom created a new set of categories with associated acronyms. My course is actually an internal one for HarvardX that attempts to make the […]

MOOC Differentiation

July 29, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Uncategorized

For those of you longing for the days when this blog was dedicated primarily to MOOCs, I just published a longish piece on how the “Big Three” MOOC providers (Udacity, Coursera and edX) are differentiating themselves in a market no longer defined as a potential replacement for traditional higher education. Enjoy and I hope to […]

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