We have placed the existing forums under a soft freeze. What that means is that we are actively encouraging the community to join and post in the new forums while we tie up loose ends and make sure that we can have a smooth final transition. In a week or two, we will prevent new […]
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We call our program “self-paced”, but we do not often mention that, in many respects, it is “self-directed” as well. Although we lay out pathways and course structures and choose particular resources, how you use any of those tools — and why — is ultimately up to you. How you find your way around these […]
Missing and broken links happen in our courses more often than we would like. They are tough to discover, tough to fix, and frustrating for students in the middle of a course. Seriously, they are pretty bad. To paraphrase the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life (and paraphrasing that film is our ideal standard mode of […]
Read More… from Filling in the blanks with the WayBack Machine
Once in a while, we share free and open and excellent resources that come our way. Today, with a tip of the hat to edSurge, we would like to give a quick nod to sixty-five or so great science videosfrom award-winning educator Rachel Iufer, collected at the Teacher’s Pet channel on YouTube. Iufer’s videos, backed […]
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Editor’s note: this guest post is the second in a short series by Ankit Khandelwal, a prolific student of online courses. This article covers free and inexpensive online resources for developing expertise in business strategy outside of a traditional degree program. Continuing from before In the previous post, I talked about some of the ways to […]
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