Dive Summary:
- Calling its program a DOCC — Distributed Open Collaborative Course — FemTechNet is launching a course to study feminist contributions to technology and feminist principles of social justice in future educational models.
- Anne Balsamo, dean of the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York, and Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at Pitzer College in Los Angeles, are leading the course.
- Balsamo calls the DOCC a "feminist rethinking" of what she sees as a flawed MOOC model, where a centralized pedagogy is led by a single expert faculty and the economic interests of a particular institution; the DOCC model aims to be collaborative.
From the article:
... "From a feminist perspective, we think of technology differently than just as objects or applications," said Balsamo. "Technology from a feminist perspective is social, cultural, technical objects or arrangements." ...
