Code Academy: High-quality, self-paced lessons and me
As someone who’s been working on an edtech start-up the past few years, I’ve had some interaction with most of the new education platforms out there. While MIT Open Coursewear and Edx are two of my...
View ArticleCoursera and Philosophy.
Last week, before class, I had only a passing knowledge of online schools. Most of that came from the Television Commercials for University of Phoenix Online and all of that information had a...
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Lynda.com – Worth Every Penny?
This week I took an online course on Lynda.com to learn some green screen techniques in After Effects. I have a small background in AE from Comm Lab: Animation, but I never worked with green screen...
View Articleopencourseware for the motivated
For my experience with a education site, I went to opencourseware.org, where MIT provides a ton of class to go through for free, without signing up for anything. I chose a course called Introduction to...
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Reflecting on World Education University
The World Education University is the only free for all, online education I could find that was accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Intrigued by the accreditation...
View ArticleUdacity: Optimal Online Learning Experience
The MOOCs that I tried out were Coursera, Udacity, and CodeAcademy. My favorite out of the three is Udacity, to the point where I’m very likely to finish the entire course that I started. I started...
View ArticleCoursera: Fundamentals of Online Education
When I signed on to Coursera, the first course option I saw was “Fundamentals of Online Education”. It seemed very meta to be in an online class about building an online class for an in-person class...
View Article[Experience] Coursera, Udacity and Dan Shiffman’s Nature of Code
Coursera I had a rather peculiar experience with Coursera. I was super excited to find out Georgia Tech was offering “Fundamentals of Online Education Planning and Application” course, so I signed up...
View ArticleExperiences in Online Educational Environments
Since the advent of the internet chat room, I’ve been curious about how the exponentially growing undercurrent of daily conversation could have an effect on learning environments. I’ve actually had...
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New experiences in Higher Ed?
I’ve participated in one way or another in different MOOC or MOOC-like minded projects over the past few years, so I will try to trace my steps back to summ my own experiences with them. This is not...
View ArticleKahn Academy – Stocks & Bonds Course
I started a course on Stocks & Bonds at Kahn Academy. I was never required to take any business, economics or practical math courses in my life, and I actually have no clue what stocks are even...
View ArticleMoocs and learning spaces
I have been an avid user of lynda.com since i made the decision to change careers. For me, it highlights everything that i love about the content of the new world of online education. The production...
View ArticleThinking About Thinking…with Coursera
I’ve taken a few online courses throughout my education thus far, the most recent being a medical language class that was essentially just about learning the vocabulary necessary for working in a...
View ArticleMusings from a serial give-upper
Our assignment this week was to try out an online education platform and write down our observations. Just like 90% of other MOOC-ers, I have yet to complete one course, despite trying out several...
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