Stanford's"Toward a Literacy of Cooperation" Course
I've been seeing reference to Stanford's Cooperation Course Goals & Assignments, being facilitated by Howard Rheingold, Andrea Saveri and Dr. William Cockayne.
Might "cooperation studies" be the beginning of a new narrative about human social behavior? Rooted in the zeitgeist of Darwin's era, the scientific, social, economic, political stories of the 19th and 20th century overwhelmingly emphasized the role of competition as a driver of evolution, progress, commerce, society. The first outlines of a new narrative are becoming visible in biology, sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and political science – a story in which cooperative arrangements, interdependencies, and collective action play a more prominent role and the essential (but not all-powerful ) story of competition and survival of the fittest shrinks just a bit. The evolution of cooperation, the dynamics of social dilemmas, the economics of peer production, the design of institutions for collective action, the structure of social networks, the forecasting power of prediction markets, the power of distributed computing – can these frontiers in previously unconnected disciplines be mapped onto a broad interdisciplinary discourse? This course is a first and very wide look at this possible new discourse, research field, policy tool, meta-narrative of human behavior.
The overview is here and the sylabus can be found here. I wish I lived in the area!
posted by Nancy White at 4:17 PM
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"I wish I lived in the area!" was also my thought as I looked this morning at a list of interesting short courses. Maybe one day there will be more online options, meanwhile back to the goal for me of developing a cooperative ethos in Ultraversity.
shirley@blogdrive.com
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