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Nueva edición del curso online gratuito Money & Society
(en inglés)
Money and Society MOOC - starts again August 20th 2017!
A free online course at Masters-level will enable you to understand the
past, present and future role of money in society. The 5th cohort starts
20th August 2017 and lasts 8 weeks (one lesson every two weeks). Enrol here.
Are you concerned with the banking
system? Bemused or fascinated by bitcoin? Starting a local currency? Whereas
most courses on money are intended for people with an economics background or
banking future, this course is for people who are interested in understanding
money from a social innovation perspective – it prepares the ground for
answering how to create a better future by reshaping money and currency.
The course is therefore highly interdisciplinary, drawing upon anthropology, sociology, history and heterodox economics. It is designed by Professor Jem Bendell PhD (IFLAS) and Matthew Slater BD (Community Forge), with additional tutoring by Leander Bindewald MA (IFLAS).
Typically 50 to 100 people complete the full 4 lessons, and many then continue to interact in the Alumni Forum. Over 20 have progressed to attend the full certificate course in London.
The next offering of the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) starts online on August 20th 2017 and runs for over 2 months, with four lessons:
Lesson One: An introduction to money: functions, forms, and fallacies
Lesson Two: The history of money and its discontents
Lesson Three: The problems with mainstream monetary systems
Lesson Four: Alternatives
Each lesson begins on a Sunday, consisting of a audio-narrated slides of
less than two hours (which you can listen to when you want within the
following days), followed by two hours of personal reading and one hour
to prepare a written assignment of around 500 words, which must be
submitted by the following week.
Participants can view and comment on each other’s assignments in the forum, and can interact as they wish, with tutors commenting on assignments in the forum.
Lessons Two and Four are followed by one hour webinars with the tutors, which occur on Saturday mornings at 10am (UK time). You need access to a decent broadband connection but do not need any special software to engage in the course. If without a powerpoint viewer, participants can view lessons on youtube. Participants cannot start the MOOC late.
Sign up at http://mooc1.communityforge.net The next offering of the MOOC after August will be in February 2018.
Participants can view and comment on each other’s assignments in the forum, and can interact as they wish, with tutors commenting on assignments in the forum.
Lessons Two and Four are followed by one hour webinars with the tutors, which occur on Saturday mornings at 10am (UK time). You need access to a decent broadband connection but do not need any special software to engage in the course. If without a powerpoint viewer, participants can view lessons on youtube. Participants cannot start the MOOC late.
Sign up at http://mooc1.communityforge.net The next offering of the MOOC after August will be in February 2018.
At the end of this MOOC you will be able to:
- Critically assess views on the form and
function of money and currency by drawing from monetary theories
- Explain theories on how social, economic
and environmental problems arise from mainstream monetary systems
- Explain alternative forms of money and
currency and the theories on how they can support better social, economic
and environmental outcomes.
The full schedule follows below. On the MOOC you will
be joined by participants on the Certificateof Achievement in Sustainable Exchange, which is a credit-bearing module
offered by the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at the University of
Cumbria. Four days of classes in person at the Docklands Campus in London begin
in April 2017, featuring Professor Bendell, Leander Bindewald and a
range of guest lecturers. These classes explore the wider issues of currency
innovation and the collaborative economy. There is a fee for the certificate,
not the MOOC. You must have started the MOOC in order to enrol.
