b a t t l e c a t . n e t - DIYMasters

As a result of my Academy of DIY post, I was introduced to Rose White aka yarnivore.  She mentioned that there was a freely available course about Open Education being run by an actual university!

Luckily I’ve been able to get involved with the course at the last minute and I’ve just started to catch up on the video lectures and readings.

One of the interesting things about the online course structure is that it uses the character class and guild model of organisation which is commonly used in networked games such as World of Warcraft.  As I’m a nerd and have dabbled in a little bit of Dungeons and Dragons and worked in the games industry, I’m well aware of this structure. However, I wonder how a student without a background knowledge of games culture would interpret the use of otherwise ‘historic’ language such as artisan, monk and bard?