I've been thinking a little bit about
accessible ways of conveying meaningful ideas, and I've come up with
a few different techniques focused on digital media.
On the more technical side of things,
we have things like MOOCs, or
Massive Online Open Courses, and
instructional sites like Codecademy. Admittedly, the “ideas” are
meaningful in a more practical sense, but MOOCs and other similar
resources nonetheless represent an important mode of digital
conveyance.
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| The Codecademy Interface. Codecademy and other educational sites allow users |
MOOCs provide a way for educators and innovators to share information with broad audiences. They are pretty much like a regular course: there are schedules and assignments and a teacher or small group of instructors, but it's completely free, lower-stress, and catered to your interests. There are MOOCs for just about any topic you could think of. This list, for example, shows various MOOCs on fiction writing.
Instructional/educational sites like Codecademy and Khan Academy are similar to MOOCs, but rather than working on a set schedule, the student sets his own pace and works toward completing objectives based on specific micro-tasks (i.e. learn “if” statements in Javascript).
