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MOOC: Methods for Solving Problems (Part the First)

I’ve signed up for a class in Coursera called Methods for Solving Problems (I’m not sure if that will resolve to the course page or not, since I’m “enrolled” and you may not be. But that’s the course name, so a simple search should get you there if this doesn’t. I tried.). I came acrossContinue reading “MOOC: Methods for Solving Problems (Part the First)”

Getting the Most Out of Your MOOCs

When MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses to the anti-acronym/initialism crowd (I’m right there with you, fam), first became a thing, it was a miraculous new world of opportunity. “You mean I can get a college education FOR FREE?!” As my in-laws in North Dakota might say, “You betcha.” It was a brave, new, cost-effectiveContinue reading “Getting the Most Out of Your MOOCs”