Rheingold U

Courses

How courses work:

(contact me via howard@rheingold.com if you want to get on a notification list.

Each cohort is limited to 35 students. Tuition is $300 for individuals, $400 if your employer reimburses. Synchronous sessions involve streaming audio, video, text chat, slides. (View recording of live session during the first class of RU, giving an overview of Introduction to Mind Amplifiers.) Asynchronous discussion uses Social Media Classroom forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps. Courses take 5-6 weeks.

 

Currently Offered

Introduction to Mind Amplifiers

• Syllabus

Mind Amplifiers augments what you can do online. Do you want tools to funnel and filter thousands of bits of information daily into digestible pieces? Do you want to understand and control how your brain and body spends attention on information ("Infotention")? Understand how and why to tag, filter, and select information for yourself and others ("Curation")? Cultivate a PLN ("Personal Learning Networks")? Or conceptualize how we can use online networks to cooperate and collectively act in our best interest ("Cooperation Theory")? Do you wish to meet other curious, intelligent, vital people from around the world synchronously and asynchronously?

 

Toward a new literacy of cooperation

• Syllabus

For the past ten years, I've worked with Institute for the Future to track the emergence of a new story about how humans get things done together. The old story of survival of the fittest, competition, rational self-interest is changing as new knowledge comes to light about cooperative arrangements and complex interdependencies in cells, ecosystems, economies, and humans. In 2005, I delivered a TED talk about this subject; the video has been viewed more than 182,000 times. In the same year, I co-taught a seminar at Stanford with Andrea Saveri of Institute for the Future, "Toward a Literacy of Cooperation." This six week Rheingold U course builds on the texts, videos, and other materials developed over the past ten years. Under my direction, co-learners will inquire, collaborate, discuss, co-construct knowledge about the building blocks and conceptual frames of a new literacy of cooperation.

 

Coming in Fall, 2011

Advanced use of personal knowledge tools:

• Prerequisite: Intro to Mind Amplifiers
• Five minute screencast on how I refine information into knowledge using Diigo, DEVONthink, and Scrivener

 

Social Media For Educators

Video of one hour lecture delivered at Case Western Reserve University, April, 2010 on Social Media, Participative Pedagogy, and Digital Literacies

 

Participatory Media/Collective Action

• aka "Smart Mobs 101" -- Based on the course I've taught with Xiao Qiang at Berkeley: Syllabus for the Berkeley course (not exactly the same as Rheingold U syllabus)

 

Social Media Issues

• Based on the course I've taught and Berkeley and Stanford: Syllabus for the Stanford version (not exactly the same as Rheingold U syllabus)

 

Network & Social Network Literacy

• My network & social network literacy mini-course widget has been viewed more than 35,000 times

 

Social Media Literacies: Attention,  Participation, Collaboration, Crap Detection, and Network Awareness

The subject of my book in progress for MIT Press.

• 21st Century Literacies blog post 
• 21st Century Literacies 60 minute video 
• 21st Century Literacies 6 minute video interview 
• Crap Detection 101 blog post 
• Crap Detection 101 video (free) 
• Crap Detection 101 ($40)  (intro is free)
• Twitter Literacy 
• Article for Educause 

 

Attention Skills in an Always-On World

• Attention 101 video
• Attention 102 video
• Attention 103 video
• Attention to Attention in an Always-On World mini-course widget (TK)