Comments on: A Harvard course available on Democracy?!

By: liberi

liberi — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:42:52 +0000

Du musst ein Fachmann sein – wirklich guter Aufstellungsort, den du hast!

By: Dean Jansen

Dean Jansen — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:41:44 +0000

Gunhild,

It is exciting (not to mention flattering) to hear this sort of praise from any participant; when the compliment comes from one who joins the course out of sheer interest in the topic, it has an air of unquestionable authenticity.

The one thing I couldn’t help but notice is that you refer to yourself as a passive member of the “at large” audience. I do realize that not everyone has spare time to take an active hand in the course related projects. With that said, I am curious to know if you feel there is an apparent and/or obvious path for to active participation in the class, as a member of the “at large” audience.

In whatever capacity you do engage the class, it sounds like you’re already getting a lot out of it. I’m very encouraged by your feedback, and I want to thank you for the enormous compliment you have paid all of us. The course, as a study in open access and collaboration, seems to be surpassing all of our expectations.

Thanks, Gunhild!

By: Gunhild Andersen

Gunhild Andersen — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:16:38 +0000

As a passive member of the “at large” audience watching the lecture videos, I must say that this is a tremendously fascinating course. These lectures greatly exceeded even my highest expectations when I turned to Democracy for stimulating “entertainment”. I really love the political aspect of the course; how students (and non-students as well) are encouraged to actively try to change things they think ought to be changed, by learning how to use the internet to invoke participation from anyone out here who might happen to agree with them and posess the skills needed. Also, it is so incredible to see such important issues as copyright law, free software, Democracy, Wikipedia and participatory internet culture in general have the dots between them connected, so to speak, in a freely available course at The Harvard School of Law that I’m in a sense still rubbing my eyes while watching.

Of course, I’m frantically telling everyone I know about it and urging them to check it out for themselves, and so I just had to jump at this chanse to thank you for being one of those wonderful people making this historical experiment possible.

Oh, and by the way, you did a great job at explaining what Democracy actually is at that lecture; it made me a whole lot wiser in that regard.

So thanks, and keep up the good work!