Course: Introduction to Sustainability, Week One
- Logged on, and followed instructor's directions. I created a profile earlier this week.
- Attended course orientation and took basic quiz.
- Previewed Week 1 material and engaged in discussion forums [project, getting to know your classmates]
- Downloaded and briefly explored course materials
- Used tags to connect with classmates (anthropology, empathy, health, DC, permaculture)
Initial observations/Topics for further reflection
- I began reviewing one of the course texts before joining the virtual community; some of the photos included in it are very interesting! Available to download for free online; no ability to virtually highlight or mark up the text and burdensome file.
- Coursera is a community with amazing power: By linking people with common interests, it can bring a comparative or multi-setting dynamic to any existing project or paper, very quickly and with remarkable ease. By connecting longsince-students with recent graduates on topics of shared interest, it can reinvigorate any discipline. By proving students separated from their studies - for a variety of rea$ons - to their missing coursework (or unemployed folk with resources!), it has the potential to create futures.
- I have 24,000+ classmates.
- I have already connected with someone across the ocean with whom I share specific interests and relatively close proximity in social networks.
- I imagine some people will use this as a venue to engage in when in search of a compatible mate. Any "We met at Coursera" wedding stories to date?
- Tompkins course is very well-designed and highly customizable. Wonder how it compares to other Coursera courses and how it has changed over time?
- Connections to the twitterverse and links to Facebook; use of tags, formatting and hyperlinks in posts.
Coursera time logged: Approx. 3 hours and wishing I could wrap my mind around all this but have to log off! #bummer.
- Logged on, and followed instructor's directions. I created a profile earlier this week.
- Attended course orientation and took basic quiz.
- Previewed Week 1 material and engaged in discussion forums [project, getting to know your classmates]
- Downloaded and briefly explored course materials
- Used tags to connect with classmates (anthropology, empathy, health, DC, permaculture)
Initial observations/Topics for further reflection
- I began reviewing one of the course texts before joining the virtual community; some of the photos included in it are very interesting! Available to download for free online; no ability to virtually highlight or mark up the text and burdensome file.
- Coursera is a community with amazing power: By linking people with common interests, it can bring a comparative or multi-setting dynamic to any existing project or paper, very quickly and with remarkable ease. By connecting longsince-students with recent graduates on topics of shared interest, it can reinvigorate any discipline. By proving students separated from their studies - for a variety of rea$ons - to their missing coursework (or unemployed folk with resources!), it has the potential to create futures.
- I have 24,000+ classmates.
- I have already connected with someone across the ocean with whom I share specific interests and relatively close proximity in social networks.
- I imagine some people will use this as a venue to engage in when in search of a compatible mate. Any "We met at Coursera" wedding stories to date?
- Tompkins course is very well-designed and highly customizable. Wonder how it compares to other Coursera courses and how it has changed over time?
- Connections to the twitterverse and links to Facebook; use of tags, formatting and hyperlinks in posts.
Coursera time logged: Approx. 3 hours and wishing I could wrap my mind around all this but have to log off! #bummer.
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