New interactive environments for collaborative work and study

This course is about thinking, thinking about new interactive environments and various related concepts that will emerge during the course. The course facilitators and participants will analyze the literature and evaluate it against their own experience with the intent of developing a comprehensive understanding of new interactive environments for collaborative work and study and some of the related concepts. During the course the work of a number of different thinkers, scholars and researchers will be discussed. The purpose of this course is to ponder about what constitutes 'an interactive environmentʼ for collaborative work and study, and to explore the ways in which 'interactive environments” are used for communication, consumption and control.