I’ve just completed the first week in my Coursera course Introduction to Music Production, taught by Loudon Stearns from the Berklee College of Music. My goal is to learn more about music engineering so I can increase the quality of my podcasts and other audio and video efforts.

I’ve written before about how there are more options and changes within higher education for increased learning and accessibility.

At the forefront of these changes to higher education are MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses. These are courses offered by traditional university professors and …

College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the student’s lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. — Mark Twain

While Twain’s tongue-in-cheek observation about the traditional college model held true in Mark Twain’s day–up until about ten years ago the …