Studying in America
was one of my dreams thirty five years ago. As a high school kid I mail ordered
information on studying in America. After a couple of weeks I received a thumb
thick package with information brochures and set of application forms. It was
explained to me that the application process would take at least a year. I had
to go through a whole series of tests, like the TOEFL test. There were all
kinds of formalities involved. And it would cost a lot of money. For a couple
of reasons I settled on studying in my home country, the Netherlands.
The course would
start in September.[3] I'm now in week four of studying at an university in
America. On line learning through a MOOC in a class of hundreds of people is an
overwhelming experience for me. Over the
next couple of months I will update this blog regularly to share my experiences
and learnings. Topics to cover will include my student experience now compared
to thirty years ago, developments of ideas and my goals and plans in life with
Open Knowledge.
[1]: Bishakha Datta (a member of the Board of
Trusteed of the Wikimedia Foundation), " [Wikimedia-l] Free
online course on open knowledge", https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-May/072303.html.
[2]: Due to bitrot the link contained in the
post referred to in [1] above is now dead.
[3]: Course sign up page as of September 22,
2014: http://online.stanford.edu/course/open-knowledge-changing-global-course-learning.
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