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re: New session of Coursera "Online Games" course

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Hi kinnies and friends!

As Katemirh has mentioned, a new session of the Coursera “Online Games” course is starting Monday, June 13. As most of you know, our kinship was founded by people who took the first session of this course in 2013 (wahhh! It seems so long ago ….). After the first course session, our kinship has worked with the course staff to mentor and assist the new students in later course sessions, and to organize events that correspond with the in-game assignments for each week of the course (the course lasts for 6 weeks).

Here are some things we can do to help!

First, please watch out for people who may be inquiring about our kinship or looking for help! If the course is like last year, one of the first assignments for the students who are taking the distinction track of the course is to join a kinship if they don’t already have one. Some of these people will be totally new to LOTRO and will need a bit of help with generally figuring out how to play the game, so any thing you can do to assist them will be appreciated J

Next, if you haven’t taken the course yourself, this might be an opportunity to do so. (It’s FREE if you just want to audit the course and view the lectures and other materials .. if you actually want a grade in the course and want a certificate, you'll have to purchase the course for $49 unless you qualify for financial aid). Here is a link to the course website (you can enroll now, for either audit or purchase). Signing up for the course will also let you participate in the course forums if you are interested in helping people out or posting about some of the events our kinship will be running to support the course.

Last, you might consider rolling a new character if you are interested in playing along with the new students. All the in-game course assignments assume that people are starting from scratch and are playing a character that progresses up to about level 20 over the six weeks of the course – for example, usually we do the Thadur instance and the Retake Weathetop fellowship instance in weeks 4 and 5 of the course.

We’ll be posting about various events connected with the course on this website and on our Facebook page (we’ll send out the same info in sort of summarized form thru kinmail and message of the day). So .. stay tuned!!!

 



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