I wasn't holding it up as an example of a digital course.<br>There was a discussion a few weeks ago about how the humanities--as a subject area--might be relevant, or not, to technical disciplines. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Stephen Downes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen@downes.ca">stephen@downes.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 09/12/2011 3:20 PM, Anya Kamenetz wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">A friend at MIT shared this course listing on Google
Reader, interesting case study:<br>
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I'm sorry, what is this a case study <i>of</i>?<br>
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It's a standard MIT course, challenging but interesting, with a few
materials available online, but not the texts, and with a closed
wiki and assignments area.<br>
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