01- This course is an experiment [Massive Teaching]

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.