The End of the Unit! (And a Note to the rest of the world …)

The End of the Unit! (And a Note to the rest of the world …) November 26, 2008

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Congratulations to the Masters by Coursework students – Anna, Ghee, Rouli, Alvin, Ramfel, Siyang, Benedikte & Man – who’ve completed iGeneration this year (2008): the final assessments are all done, the last formal blog posts and comments are in and, indeed, the hardcopies of your assessments are now available for collection from me in my office. Thanks to everyone for your fantastic contributions across the semester – the discussions and the seminars you led were vibrant and engaging, and I’ve really enjoyed reading your major assessments for the unit! Thanks, too, for the final kind words about the unit; I’m delighted so many of you enjoyed it!

About this unit & blog for those who weren’t iGeneration students: This unit has been collectively authored by Tama Leaver and the students who participated in iGeneration 2008 (a masters by coursework unit in Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia); all course materials, assessment items, links to readings that are freely available online (so, most readings, but not quite all), and the assessment items – the podcasts, essays, video projects, seminar outlines and blog commentaries, will remain online indefinitely. The students and I agreed from the outset to treat this unit not only as a learning journey for them, but also a journey which may be of use to other people. As such, we’re collectively decided to leave this unit online as an Open Education Resource that can be used by anyone who might find it of value or interest. We’ve explicitly placed all original content under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 2.5 Australia license, meaning that as long as you attribute the original authors (a link back to this blog will suffice; for posts which specify the author, it would be nice if you did the same) and don’t make money in the process (and, no, we don’t consider education for-profit thus all educational uses are legitimate) then you’re free to read, reuse, and remix as little or as much of the material here as you’d like! However you ended up here, we hope you find something of interest and maybe something of future use!