*Writing implements will be provided by the teacher as requested.
1.MOOCs and the Future of Higher Education
Imagine you are part of a team redesigning higher education for the next 20 years. Would you include MOOCs as a central part of the system? How would you balance online learning with traditional methods?
*MOOCs stands for Massive Open Online Courses. In simpler terms, MOOCs are online courses available to anyone, anywhere, often for free.
2. Food Culture and Anthropology
According to some recent articles, Mary Antoinette popularized potatoes in Europe where they were first seen as undesirable (and originally from South America), do you think it would be possible to do this with another vegetable? Which Japanese vegetable would you choose to do the same?
Tokyo has experienced a considerable uptick in foreign tourists, so has Osaka, Kyoto and Nara. Which city do you think is being overlooked or under appreciated, let’s discuss
