[Air-L] "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University" open, online, free course this autumn 2014 at MIT OCW-centric World University and School

[Scott MacLeod]

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Dear AoIR friends and researchers,


"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 at 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 at gmail.com.

All the best,
Scott






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- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- - http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- - 415 480 4577
- - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare
(not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit university and
school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational
organization, both effective April 2010.

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