Planning to teach the open, online, free course this autumn 2014 ...
"Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University"
"What is information technology, broadly conceived? How did it develop? Who did it? What has been the process of diffusion into the economy and society? How and why did the Network Society take shape? What of the implications of networks in the Information Age? In this course, we’ll analyze the interaction between society and contemporary information technologies, in a multicultural and comparative perspective. In doing so, we’ll examine what data and evidence are in the social sciences, how it is used, and how it is interpreted." ...
In the second half of the course, we'll explore starting an all-language, MIT OCW-centric university and school, World University and School, asking further (in the context of the first half's focus on how the information revolution emerged), and in terms of questions about agency (from a Castellian perspective), in what ways to grow this conversation remarkably and flourishingly on the internet?, ... in what ways can WUaS build on great universities in innovative ways?, ... and what are some of the inter-lingual implications of this? ... Your questions?
on Harvard's virtual island
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Berkman/105/63/25
and in Google + group video Hangouts at WUaS,
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/+WorlduniversityandschoolOrg/posts
on Saturdays for 2 hours from 11a-1p (Pacific Time) beginning Saturday, September 20th, to get familiar with the two main information technologies, and with the course conversation beginning on September 27th.
(See, too -
[If people are interested in distant time zones, we'll explore changing the course's scheduling].
Come join the conversation!
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