DISQUS

Jaime · 2 years ago

"alma mater"
cosmo · 2 years ago

Why is this news? Web technologies are taught on plenty of college courses. Some courses even focus on specific technologies like Adobe AIR or Flex. How is teaching a course using F8 any different?
Dan Ackerman Greenberg · 2 years ago

I’m Dan, the head course assistant for the class. One point of clarification: grading will not be based solely on how many users our students can get. We are more interested in user engagement, and we're focusing on how to build persuasive, engaging user experiences.

We’ve had two great classes so far and we’re asking our students to launch the first versions of their apps in two weeks.

We’ll post the links to all of our students’ apps as they launch, so stay tuned!

Dan Ackerman Greenberg

http://www.ackermangreenberg.com
Tom Hanson · 2 years ago

I found this idea amazing and wrote about it at:

http://www.openeducation.net/2007/10/11/the-cha...

If there is one carrot for students it is relevance. Could there be any greater motivational tool than to ask students to take a cutting edge, pop culture idea and give it their own touch?

And does anyone know of any other schools offering similar cutting edge courses?

Tom Hanson
Editor
OpenEducation.net