Harvard's Berkman Center: Second Life Course

Watch the trailer!

Via the Berkman newsletter:

This semester, Prof. Charles Nesson, co-founder of the Berkman Center, and Rebecca Nesson will be offering a historic new course at Harvard and online. "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion," will be the first Harvard course to be open to the public as well as the the first Harvard course to be offered as an Extension/Distance education through virtual world Second Life. The course will be taught live and in-person at Harvard Law School, and then taught through live interactive sessions with remote students in Second Life. Course videos will also be licensed through Creative Commons and distributed to the general public online and through local television in Cambridge.

CyberOne will be "a course in persuasive, empathic argument in the Internet space." Bridging disciplines, CyberOne will look not just at legal arguments but at the ways different kinds of media can be used to shape arguments in what is sometimes the most important court of all - that of public opinion.

CyberOne homepage: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone
Course trailer video: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/videos/CyberOne.mp4
Charles Nesson Bio: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/nesson.html
Rebecca Nesson Bio: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nesson

Comments

[Gene Koo]

Hey Beth, any interest in swinging by CyberOne on one of our "open community" days?