This course is also a new experiment, or in fact several experiments.
One of them is that I want to see
if it's possible for me, essentially alone and with my
bare hands, my bad handwriting, and a few bricks, to
produce a movie that will add value to this students.
Again, I'm trying out something new, and I might very well fail, but that's okay.
I like to take a bit of risks, and at
least I'll have tried it, and can share back my experience.
This course only spans three weeks.
The structure will be quite simple.
In the first week, I'll take a mostly positive tone about
MOOCs, describe the promise that many people see in them, including me.
In the second week, I'll take a closer
look at the technology and survey the copyright aspects.
In the third week, I'll discuss the business
aspects and maybe a bit of science fiction.
In fact I'll prepare some material for the third week, but I'll be ready to add much
more to it than that, mostly in response to
questions that will intermittently pop up in the forums.
It's quite a tight schedule, so it might be that at
the last minute, I settle for more text then I originally intended.
In any case, this is just the first run of the course.
As soon as possible, I hope to rerun it, this time with a
bit more material, that I can reintegrate, to offer a slightly longer course.