Digital Learning Communities

Digital Learning Communities

After reading through the digital learning communities, it is clear several are more interesting to me than others.  As a literature teacher, though I am not particularly interested in a guitar community, I know that such a resource would be something to share with other individuals in our school as well as my husband who would like another resource for becoming even more proficient in his trade.  The Cosmo community did interest me in that I have considered homeschooling and will pass this resources along to friends and family who participate in schooling at home.  Also, the technology learning communities will help me become up to date on everything technological that will aid in my classroom. The ones that interested me the most, however, were the communities with open classes at Harvard and Yale.  Particularly, I have joined the learning community at Harvard and am watching the videos on Shakespeare in order to give me a refresher to help me in my instruction.  I am happy to finally have a chance to "go back to college" without the pressure of added classes.

The most appealing attribute about Harvard classes is that I can expose myself to upper level instruction without the cost.  The fact that Harvard has chosen a wide variety of classes also makes it more interesting to those who would like to join.  In order to make these more appealing, however, they should make these more marketable by placing them on Facebook in a more seen fashion, perhaps through advertising.  Individuals are more likely to become interested in something academic it seems, through social forums rather than academic ones.