On the day of her eightieth birthday, renowned primatologist Jane Goodall launched a massive open online course (MOOC) based around digital mapping for communities
Jane Goodall is the poster child for generativity — innovating approaches to conservation and education and, by the way, changing how we do ‘aging’–redefinition, reeducation, and ‘repurposing’ (i.e. finding new ways to pursue purpose and meaning). I want to be like her when I grow up. On her 80th birthday, Goodall launched a MOOC in participatory mapping. She believes shared knowledge and mapping skills are ways for people, especially young people, to discover where they can make a difference in their own communities. Goodall praised Google, saying the company was “helping us [The Goodall Institute] so much with our technology and our tablets and getting the field staff to monitor their own forests — it’s changed the way we do conservation”
See on www.wired.co.uk
Media Psychology Blog 