Tag: The Ancient Greek Hero

  • Heroism, liminality, time

    The Hero MOOC called up more memories.  A large wall poster from my primary school days, in a Catholic boarding school — and me, aged eight, just arrived there, bewildered enough by the school, trying to make sense of the poster.  I remember an imperious-looking Greek man in a chariot drawing up in a sunlit…

  • MOOCs – learning by experience

    What’s it like to study a MOOC?  Well, you could read the studies, listen to students — but what’s maybe best of all, you could take part in one yourself.  Which is what I did about six months ago — I joined a Harvard MOOC,  The Ancient Greek Hero, me and about 36,000 others.  So what…