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The Edupunks' Guide to a DIY Credential
A first-of-its kind resource for the future of a comprehensive guide to learning online and charting a personalized path to an affordable, meaningful credential using the latest innovative tools and organizations. Real-life stories and hands-on advice for today's students, whether you're going back to school, working, transferring colleges, or pursuing lifelong learning goals.
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105 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 31, 2011
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About the author
Anya Kamenetz
12 books63 followersAnya is endlessly curious about learning and the future.
Her forthcoming book, The Art of Screen Time (PublicAffairs, 2018) is the first, essential, don’t-panic guide to kids, parents, and screens. You can preorder it now!
Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006), dealt with youth economics and politics; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010), investigated innovations to address the crises in cost, access, and quality in higher education. The Test (PublicAffairs, 2015), is about the past, present and future of testing in American schools.
Learning, Freedom and the Web, The Edupunks’ Guide, and the Edupunks’ Atlas are her free web projects about self-directed, web-enabled learning.
Anya is the lead digital education correspondent for NPR. Her team’s blog is at NPR.org/ed. Previously she covered technology, innovation, sustainability and social entrepreneurship for five years as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She’s contributed to The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine.
She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post and won 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards from the Education Writers Association. NPR Ed won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow award for Innovation from the Radio Television Digital News Association.
She appears in the documentaries Generation Next (2006), Default: A Student Loan Documentary (2011), both shown on PBS, and Ivory Tower, distributed by Participant Media.
Anya grew up in Louisiana, in a family of writers and mystics, and graduated from Yale University in 2002. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
Her forthcoming book, The Art of Screen Time (PublicAffairs, 2018) is the first, essential, don’t-panic guide to kids, parents, and screens. You can preorder it now!
Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006), dealt with youth economics and politics; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010), investigated innovations to address the crises in cost, access, and quality in higher education. The Test (PublicAffairs, 2015), is about the past, present and future of testing in American schools.
Learning, Freedom and the Web, The Edupunks’ Guide, and the Edupunks’ Atlas are her free web projects about self-directed, web-enabled learning.
Anya is the lead digital education correspondent for NPR. Her team’s blog is at NPR.org/ed. Previously she covered technology, innovation, sustainability and social entrepreneurship for five years as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She’s contributed to The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine.
She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post and won 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards from the Education Writers Association. NPR Ed won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow award for Innovation from the Radio Television Digital News Association.
She appears in the documentaries Generation Next (2006), Default: A Student Loan Documentary (2011), both shown on PBS, and Ivory Tower, distributed by Participant Media.
Anya grew up in Louisiana, in a family of writers and mystics, and graduated from Yale University in 2002. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
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March 17, 2014
I wasn't sure what to expect when I downloaded this, which is probably why I kept putting off reading this for so long. Seems silly now, since I finished it in less than an hour (it felt like more of a very long newsletter than a book) and it was exactly what it said it would be.
It's a straightforward guide that takes you through the process of using the internet to your advantage in terms of learning, and doing education your own way. There's links to be found on every page (so prepare for lots of clicking) and chapters set aside for referring back easily.
It was a good follow up read to College Without High School for me, although a lot of the information were things I already knew. I suspect it'll be the same way for a lot of others, especially anyone who's gone through the college process already. But I skimmed frequently and still came back with a lot of information.
If you're already used to scouring the internet, especially for education-based pursuits, you may have found most sites and establishments already and won't find it as helpful. (Although I recommend it anyway. It is, after all, a quick and free read.) Continuing education students, people who are in-between jobs and need more options, unschoolers and homeschoolers are who might benefit the most.
It's a straightforward guide that takes you through the process of using the internet to your advantage in terms of learning, and doing education your own way. There's links to be found on every page (so prepare for lots of clicking) and chapters set aside for referring back easily.
It was a good follow up read to College Without High School for me, although a lot of the information were things I already knew. I suspect it'll be the same way for a lot of others, especially anyone who's gone through the college process already. But I skimmed frequently and still came back with a lot of information.
If you're already used to scouring the internet, especially for education-based pursuits, you may have found most sites and establishments already and won't find it as helpful. (Although I recommend it anyway. It is, after all, a quick and free read.) Continuing education students, people who are in-between jobs and need more options, unschoolers and homeschoolers are who might benefit the most.
February 2, 2018
I usually am a bit reserved with my book ratings, so when I rate an ebook as 5 star it means something. I have never read or come across anything like this before, and I really wish this ebook was around when I was a recent high school graduate trying to figure what I was going to do next.
This is a wonderful resource and inspiration and motivation and whatever else you'd like to call it to get started or continue your online learning. There is so much free information online that it would be easy to learn enough to get a degree or certificate or something for all the information we process.
This ebook gives you the tools to do just that. I haven't tried them out yet, but oh I want to. There are so many subjects and degrees I've been drawn to lately (even after just completing an associate's degree last year). And with all the reading I do (!) it's clear I've ingesting enough information that I should be doing something with it. Now I know I can, and with this book I can do something with it. I love this book.
This is a wonderful resource and inspiration and motivation and whatever else you'd like to call it to get started or continue your online learning. There is so much free information online that it would be easy to learn enough to get a degree or certificate or something for all the information we process.
This ebook gives you the tools to do just that. I haven't tried them out yet, but oh I want to. There are so many subjects and degrees I've been drawn to lately (even after just completing an associate's degree last year). And with all the reading I do (!) it's clear I've ingesting enough information that I should be doing something with it. Now I know I can, and with this book I can do something with it. I love this book.
November 4, 2012
Great companion for self-taught students! Plenty of resources and advices. A must-read book for who follow the "keep learning" mind...
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