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IsraelX: Digital Culture/clutter: Life and Death on the Net
Acquire a conceptual toolkit to navigate the high waters of cyberspace as you learn about the pains and gains of the net.

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14 weeks at 3-4 hours per week
english
Online - Self Paced
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About IsraelX: Digital Culture/clutter: Life and Death on the Net
Tangibility is being replaced by virtuality. Social media supplants the water cooler. MOOCs challenge the classroom.
This course is a colorful melange of ideas, debates, inventions and stories of the visionaries and entrepreneurs who've created-- and critiqued -- the digital world - as we know it today.
This is an Beginner survey course. It fits into early, foundational learning in various disciplines, such as Social Science; Arts & Culture; Business & Management; Communication; Computer Science; Education; Humanities; Law, and the informal studies of lifelong learners. No previous knowledge is required.
However, life in the 21st century is assumed.
What You Will Learn?
- Master the concepts underlying digital and networked realities..
- Understand and intelligently discuss and predict digital life..
- Gain familiarity with leading thinkers and their thoughts in the field..
- Use digital and collaborative tools in this quest..
- Create collaborative concept maps of the information age..
- Based on your newly gained knowledge, form your own opinions about whether and how much Privacy, Center, Distance, Time and Death, the Book and the Classroom are dying..
- Answer the question, is the Net fulfilling its promise?.