Learning and Extension

"Chaos theory and self-organization and social network theories suggest that we acquire learning competences from forming connections between disparate ideas and fields in which links between them represent survival in an interconnected world. Amplification of learning, knowledge, and understanding through the extension of a personal network into a global network is the epitome of a new learning culture" - Mel Alexenberg, ed. Educating Artists for the Future. Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture, p.15.

This is one reason I am so committed to a unique degree that will facilitate these types of connections in a way that fuses the history of technology and its impact on all the disciplines, a reinvigorated humanities that fosters connections with pure and applied science, social science, the visual arts, and that embraces applied options for those students who want to be cultural content providers, new media artists, and new media authors.