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Coursera: The 1 Year MOOC BA Experiment: Degree of Freedom
Editor’s note: Jonathan Haber is a Courserian who is taking classes for 12 months on Coursera to experiment with a project of his called “Degree of Freedom”. He will be guest blogging on our site throughout this next year to keep us up-to-date on his progress! Greetings fellow Courserians! Like you, I am enjoying the thrill of learning new things from some of the world’s best professors for free. But, unlike you, I may be taking more courses than would generally be considered healthy. You see, I decided earlier this year to try my own experiment within the greater MOOC experiment and find out if it’s possible to learn as much as I’d get out of a four year liberal arts degree in just twelve months using entirely free learning tools like Coursera. At my Degree of Freedom web site, I’ve been writing about the experience in order to help students, teachers, educational technology providers, and policy makers understand what works and what still…