Hey gang,
A faculty member at Stanford University is running a 6-week online
course in HCI, for free, beginning May 28th. Stanford has a reputation
as being one of the top HCI programs in the world.
http://hci-class.org
It seems like a great opportunity if you're interested in user interface
design. Personally I find it difficult to learn about UI stuff on my
own (at least compared to programming), so I'm really looking forward to
this course.
-Miles
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Subject: | HCI
class launches May 28! |
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Date: | Thu, 24 May 2012 23:09:02 +0000 |
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To: | mil...@gmail.com |
Dear Miles Worthington,
Thank you all for your patience. I'm overjoyed to announce the HCI
class begins on Monday May 28! The class will last five weeks,
wrapping up at the end of June.
I'd like to tell you a little bit about what we have planned. Like
many of the other online classes, each week offers a series of short
video lectures. These videos have embedded questions to help you make
sure you're understanding the material.
I encourage you to participate in our online discussion forum by
posting alternative resources, sharing real-world examples that
illustrate the ideas presented in lecture, and providing feedback on
the course and the assignments.
Each week there will be a project assignment and the quiz. To enable
you to work on open-ended projects and learn the design process that
we teach in this class, we're introducing something new: peer
assessment. Coursera, in collaboration with the HCI team, has built a
new software module that will enable you to assess each others work.
Not only does this enable us to offer more open-ended projects that I
think you'll really enjoy, it also gives you a chance to learn from
thinking about others' work, as well as your own. The Web site will
have more information about the peer assessment system. For now,
there's two important things to know:
1) In order for the logistics to work, the project assignments have a
hard deadline. We'll post the assignments as early as we can. So if
you have upcoming travel or other scheduling issues, you can submit
early. But, the software doesn't have a way for anyone to submit late.
Future courses may be more flexible. But for now, understand that the
course has hard deadlines, and there's no way for us to make
exceptions on this. Period. We know that may cause scheduling problems
for some, and apologize in advance. If you've missed a deadline, you
can't submit that work anymore, but you can still keep up with the
rest of the class content.
2) The HCI class will be the very first online course using this
functionality. The development team has worked incredibly hard to
produce great software, and they've done a wonderful job. But this is
still unquestionably prototype software. And a big experiment in
online education. To make this work, we'll need your enthusiasm,
help, flexibility, and forgiving attitude. I really hope this will
work so that we can share more design classes with students around the
world.
Please click here to get started:
http://hci-class.org/. Especially if
you signed up a while ago, you may need to create a new login and
password.
Please also forward this email to your friends who might be interested
in HCI or who might just be interested in this new form of online
education. And/or send it out on your favorite social networking
platform. If you have friends taking the class, I strongly encourage
you to form a study group to discuss the material with each other and
think about how the ideas in this class might be helpful in your
lives. You might even find that it's more fun to watch the videos in
a group and discuss your project work with each other.
Creating this material for you is a really exciting adventure for us.
I hope that you find this class stimulating and thought provoking,
Scott and the HCI online team
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