Online classes and the Unbirth of A.I.

Happy Late Halloween! This could be a horror story. It isn’t, not in the Stephen King sense, but it is an idea that someone could take and develop further. Last year, I wrote a post about online education, in which I argued that all classes–online or in-person–can be looked at as intentional projects in culture-building. I believed then, and now, that online classes can’t be primarily about delivering information to students, and that college classes in particular are about creating learning communities.  Along the way, I wandered into some thoughts …

Online Education

Starting this summer I have been developing some online classes for both International Studies and Anthropology at the University of Memphis. I’m excited by the prospect, and at the same time I am facing what I hope will become a productive tension between the technology of learning and the technology of the Internet. In this blog post I want to unravel that tension and jot down some fragments of ideas for the future. For any students who might be reading this, when I use the term “technology” here I am talking …