This
course explores how new media will impact learning, thinking,
designing and collaborating in the information society of
the next millennium. Likewise, it looks at how the media
itself will be shaped through use by professionals and citizens.
The
course aims at creating an understanding that at present
there is really no consensus as to how technological innovations
in information and communications will affect the shape
of cultures and society in the future. The pursuits of this
courses are by nature interdisciplinary.
In
this course, students will have the opportunity to utilize
innovative web-technologies (based on DynaSites
substrate) which allow them to associate information in
new ways, and access them from different perspectives, in
order to construct new understanding regarding class materials.
Technologies, such as the following, will be used:
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