Description
A number of colleagues at the New College of the Humanities, including myself, Brian Ball, Fintan Nagle and Naomi Goulder, initiated, designed and developed a new digital education platform with the financial backing of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and other supporters. The 'Digital Diploma', as we called it, was open to the public and free of charge. The content was created in such a way so as to provide accurate and intuitive accounts of material, arranged into easy-to-digest and self-contained chunks of information. It was meant to be accessible to anyone, i.e. from secondary school students to retirees. The objective was to empower individuals across society by providing them with the skills to critically engage in public debates as well as by demonstrating how these skills are applicable in a variety of contexts, including everyday life and science. Before it shut down due to a lack of continued funding, the platform carried units on Science Literacy (e.g. the history of computing) and Applied Ethics (e.g. the moral limits of the market). We hope to revive the platform at some point in the future, as well as to add considerable more content to it. With that in mind, we're open to working with interested organisations. Opportunities for collaboration include shared student experience, targeted course materials for particular audiences, or sponsorship of the Digital Diploma.
If you are interested in discussing sponsorship or collaboration, please get in touch: ioannis.votsis(/a-t\)nulondon.ac.uk