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"Augmented Tuesday Suppers" is an innovative experience and a disruptive approximation
to online courses. It encourages everybody to take part of a
knowledge community based on dialogue about everyday-life subjects around a dining table
during supper time. "Moockators" who wish to belong to this community,
will enjoy a significant conversation as they eat around our augmented table.
Drawing an analogy with the Epicure's philosophical garden,
this space-time have been chosen based on the belief that knowledge is better produced and assimilated by people while they are not
expecting it. Each session is designed around a subject
as the center of the conversation hold by seven face to face commensals and one million
virtual ones. The dialogue will be managed by us as triggers involving two invited experts
that will talk about topics concerning our lives shared by everybody like fear, anxiety,
addiction, unlove, mistakes, loyalty and loneliness. Although these subjects are common to everybody,
we hardly feel estranged and analyze them from an outer perspective. Each topic can
be approached from different points of view depending on the knowledge or the experience
of the guests who belong to different contexts. Furthermore, the two invited specialists will
assure the excellence of the contents. Every proposed augmented Tuesday supper pieces
are independent and don't belong to a progressive learning sequence. They achieve their goal
as a synergy shaped by the whole. Two weeks before each session, topics will
be introduced to participants in order to activate them. In this time some useful information
will be available so they will be able to prepare the comments and questions, which
will be sent to us in seven days. During the following week, the group of activators will
choose those comments and questions that later, virtual guests will talk about with the
in-person participants in the supper. This proposal has been designed by a group
of three collectives linked to the university in different ways:
Hypothesis is the name of an interactive online platform to generate microtexts about subjects.
100x10 is a group that develops intensive and experimental action courses.
Especulactions is an innovation project taking place at the Polytechnic University involving
innovative learning.