Freerice
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Course Description
Open Education: Learning and Giving in the Online World
Spring term, Block D Th 10AM -12 noon Professor Charles R. Nesson and Berkman Fellow Judith Donath
Open Education: Learning and Giving in the Online World
Using freerice.org as a central case study of an entrepreneurial charitable educational enterprise, this seminar covers questions about learning in an open-access world. What motivates people? What is the situational psychology of being bored? How are values learned? What is the role of skepticism?
This seminar will be given for credit in the spring; there will also be two organizational sessions in the fall, which include contribution toward a supervised paper.
Open to all Schools of Harvard.
- "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
- ~Douglas Adams
Open Integrated-media Education
- Open Education Expressed in Code, Law, Integrated Public Media and Human Spirit -
- How can we maximize and release the brilliance that is in every child, the creative energy and the fantastic desire to learn that all infants begin with, and lead them to be joyful life long learners who feel connected to each other and to society and want and are prepared to make a better world?
- And how can we measure whether we have succeeded?
Imagine, then, that you are building in integrated media a technology-assisted free and open online learning environment.
Our public education system for all its aspiration fails to deliver to many of our children. We are still "A Nation at Risk." Bill Gates description of our public education as "obsolete" still holds.
The net is our opportunity to change the rhetorical frame of children’s upbringing not by forcing them but by attracting them to learning, and by attracting their teachers, mothers and fathers, family and friends, all who would support them learning.
