“Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University” –
an open, online, free course meets this autumn 2014 at wiki CC MIT OCW-centric World University and School … on Saturdays from 11am-1pm Pacific Time.
“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? We’ll also problematize the 9 main areas below at WUaS – http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. And we’ll develop your questions into course themes.
Courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
Subjects: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects
Languages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages
Library Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources
Nation States: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States
You at World University: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University
Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software
Museums: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums
Research: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research
Hardware Resource Possibilities: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities
World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School
World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation
This class is synchronous …
on Harvard’s virtual island (get an avatar)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Berkman/105/63/25
and in Google + group video Hangouts at WUaS (get a G+ Profile)
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.
This course will only meet in the autumn at World University and School.
[If people are interested in distant time zones, we’ll explore changing the course’s scheduling].
See this link for this course –
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/09/humpback-whales-information-technology.html
Come join the “Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University” conversation!
Email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com for further information.
Especially if you know another language, or are in a non-US country, but can’t participate in the course, please add your name to the World University and School mailing list – worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com.