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2014

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Knowledge Accident- Part 1, Alanna Rosenblatt Apr 2014

Knowledge Accident- Part 1, Alanna Rosenblatt

Architecture Senior Theses

The increasing un-sustainability of the built university and the rise of the apparent mass democratization or synchronization of higher education through the virtual Massive Open Online Course [MOOC] is occurring concurrently with the mutation of the historically grounded Accident into the Knowledge Accident. The standardization of higher education through the MOOC has created the conditions for the Knowledge Accident, the “integral accident”, of the built university. This is where we find the present state of the university, in a moment of crisis grounded in unconstrained "progress". The current form of the MOOC, begun in 2011, has expanded and evolved with …


Knowledge Accident- Part 2, Alanna Rosenblatt Apr 2014

Knowledge Accident- Part 2, Alanna Rosenblatt

Architecture Senior Theses

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