The first message from the Meta-MOOC -- the anchor to our course, to be taken by all involved, and to serve as our common experience in our Experiments in Feminist Learning!
Welcome to The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education! We know you will learn a lot and, even more importantly, we know you have much to teach the rest of us. We’ve designed this course with many features to encourage participation and collaboration, and there are some fifteen Community TAs (mostly graduate students from Duke, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina) who will be guiding the forums, posing questions, and keeping office hours too.
All the materials for Week 1 of #FutureEd are now available. If you go to the mainsyllabus/schedule you find links to everything you need for this first week. We suggest the following routine: 1. watch the videos 2. take the quizzes if you are interested in obtaining a Certificate of Accomplishment; 3. participate in the forums and the discussion groups; 4. participate in the peer assessment exercises if you are interested in obtaining a Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction; and 5. read and watch the assigned and supplemental materials and videos. We don’t see this just as a MOOC but as a movement--a movement on behalf of new ways of learning and of transforming education worldwide. This Coursera MOOC is part of the FutureEd Initiative being sponsored by the virtual learning network HASTAC. FutureEd includes many online resources you can learn from and contribute to. Thank you for signing up for the History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education. We’re learning the future together . . . starting now! Best wishes, Cathy N. Davidson Co-Director, PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, John Hope Franklin Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English, Duke University cathydavidson.com @CathyNDavidson AND the #FutureEd Team: Barry, Elizabeth, Kaysi, Malina and Rebecca For information about Duke's online education initiatives, see http://online.duke.edu/. For regular information about the university, follow Duke on Twitter @DukeU. For more information about the virtual learning network HASTAC, seehttp://www.hastac.org/about | |
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WEEK ONE! gathering our community and class!
We take multimodal field notes: sensory impressions: sights, sounds, textures, smells, taste: fears and creativity, unlearning and letting go:
Also for week one! Forum: A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
& Putting together a Community Manifesto: From How a Class becomes a Community
ISIS Schedule (Davidson's own course) with Google Hangout dates and other events to synchronize.
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