Bonus- Office Hours - Amsterdam

Hello everybody.

Chuck here.

We’re in Amsterdam.

This is the second office hours that have happened in Amsterdam.

And we had a great turnout tonight.

And I want to introduce you to your fellow students and let them talk a little bit about the class.

So, give us your name and tell us a little bit about the class, what’s your interested in, what you think you’re getting out of it.

Hi my name is shervin.

I like computer science.

I also like art in general.

It was a great course, did a great job and it was very nice.

That’s it.

Okay.

Hi I’m Arya and I’m a lecturer at the University of Applied Science and I’m teaching some about digital interactive media.

So I want to know more about the beginnings of the Internet so that’s why I took the course and it helped me build more knowledge about how it all began.

So I’m really excited that you are applying some of it in your own course.

Yes, and I’m also using the stuff I’ve learned and I’m using the peer grading system as well in one of my lectures just to try.

Great, your turn.

Hi, I’m Ben.

I work here in Amsterdam.

I’m a system administrator.

I work with all these cool technologies, and I miss the feeling about where it all came from, and how it started.

So this course really gives me that information, and it helps a lot to understand how things came to be.

So, thanks Chuck.

So how do you think the course can be improved?

I think you need to put in something about the seven layer OC model, ‘cause it’s lacking that.

Other than that, keep on rolling.

Yeah, hi everyone.

I’m Julianna from Brazil.

I’m doing a master here in Amsterdam.

It’s unique and distant culture.

So, well, I enrolled in this MOOC because I’m studying MOOCs.

It’s what I did for my master’s thesis.

And well it’s a really great course.

I expect I want to continue with the course because it is the first week, but okay.

That’s another story.

It’s really great, it’s a great way, a fun way to learn about Internet.

Not to read like a boring Wikipedia article.

So yeah, I want to continue.

Thank you.

Now, you’re the first person who’s ever come to office hours before, you’re registered for the next class right?

Exactly.

So tell us a little bit about what you expect might come out of the course.

Well I got extremely curious to hear about all what I’ve already heard from the former students.

I wanna learn about from scratch about Internet, and look how it’s functioning, where it’s coming from, to understand it actually.

Cuz I’m coming from the field of humanities and I don’t know anything about it so.

This is why I’m here, and thanks for being so enthusiastic actually, and teaching us.

Looking forward to it.

And so there you have it.

Yet another successful office hours around the world.

It’s the first time that I’ve done an office hours more than once in the same city.

Cheers.