UT: Immersive HackLab
Course Description
Immersive Hack Lab is a 5-week online course to explore how emerging and mobile technologies are central to the way we engage in participatory practices of creating, communicating, collaborating and circulating stories. The goal over the 5 weeks is to better understand how these technologies work, in what ways do they afford new means of communicating and sharing information, what structures of control and power they embody, and how they might work differently for people in different contexts.
This is a think & do course offering you an opportunity to learn together through experimenting (a.k.a. hacking) and participating in sharing knowledge via special interest groups (SIGs). Within these SIGs, students will acquire possible certificates in varied software platforms depending on the special interest group chosen emerging technology, skill level, and learning path design personalized within each group. From this experimentation, individual students will create a solo immersive project to showcase the final week of class.
Course Objectives
Immersive Hack Lab prepares students to understand the terminology and language of these developing technologies in order to better understand the affordances of each and how to use them in innovative ways.
Immersive Hack Lab is a 5-week online course to explore how emerging and mobile technologies are central to the way we engage in participatory practices of creating, communicating, collaborating and circulating stories. The goal over the 5 weeks is to better understand how these technologies work, in what ways do they afford new means of communicating and sharing information, what structures of control and power they embody, and how they might work differently for people in different contexts.
This is a think & do course offering you an opportunity to learn together through experimenting (a.k.a. hacking) and participating in sharing knowledge via special interest groups (SIGs). Within these SIGs, students will acquire possible certificates in varied software platforms depending on the special interest group chosen emerging technology, skill level, and learning path design personalized within each group. From this experimentation, individual students will create a solo immersive project to showcase the final week of class.
Course Objectives
Immersive Hack Lab prepares students to understand the terminology and language of these developing technologies in order to better understand the affordances of each and how to use them in innovative ways.
Immersive Solo Project
