Dive Summary:
- A MOOC using AMC’s zombie show “The Walking Dead” as its primary text is being led by four University of California, Irvine professors next month.
- “Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’” will be available through Instructure's Canvas platform, and the instructors will have the rights to content from the show, as well as access to cast members for interviews.
- Don't expect to get a degree in zombie management: Instructure co-founder Brian Whitmer calls the course "edutainment."
From the article:
... “I’ve never taught a class on math related to zombies before, but this is the same mathematical content I’d teach to undergraduates at UCI, and a way to reach new students,” said UC Irvine mathematics lecturer Sarah Eichhorn in an interview on Tuesday. ...