Greetings,
An interesting approach to educational courses delivered over the web
through not a university or college but a national policy-driven effort.
Not much documentation of sources and/or resources, not much interaction,
but not much IT bother (you must have X software, hardware) either.
Navigation is a bit iffy, in that it is not entirely clear whether you are
looking at a course, or a module within a course.
I also looked briefly at the Cultural Studies course, and the idea of
pulling out relevant concepts, and even defining the concept of Concept
was notable.
I didn't look at the video courses.
This is not a site review, but a friendly poke to look at this one if
web-based courses are of interest.
The site does appear to be an interesting approach to web-based
education via national education policy and a national
consortium/committee/task force and universities.
The emphasis seems to be undergraduate education. Not a lot of depth,
but it's a start on understanding basic Big ideas for the young folks.
--gw
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Gretchen Whitney, PhD, Retired
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA [log in to unmask]
http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/
jESSE:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/jesse.html
SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:54:59 -0400
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Subject: [SIGMETRICS] A web-based course [windows-1252] ?Science,
Technology & Society? developed by IIT Guwahati/ NPTEL is now freely
available
Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
A web-based course* “*Science, Technology & Society” (
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/109103024/), developed by IIT Guwahati
under the Indian National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
(NPTEL), is now freely available to lifelong learners.
This course contains eight modules, namely:
- Science as Culture Social Context of the Production of Scientific
Knowledge
- Organisation of Production of Scientific Knowledge and
Professionalisation of Science
- Society and Culture: Resources and Legitimation of Knowledge
- Perspectives on Science-Technology Relationship
- Science in Colonial and Post-colonial India
- Emerging Technologies
- New Ethical Codes for New Technologies: Responses of the Civil Society
Discussion and Forum
- Science: From Public Resource to Intellectual Property
Further Details: *“*Science, Technology & Society” (
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/109103024/)
