Mixed Learning Modules for Global Shakespeare

This proposal builds on two ongoing projects at MIT, the Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive (http://globalshakespeares.org) and the Global Shakespeare Curricular Initiative, as well as on the leadership position MIT has achieved in moving the international Shakespeare educational community toward global models through these projects. Through these efforts they have been able to collect extensive video materials with permissions to publish on the web, and can draw on the active participation of scholars in many countries in transforming education at MIT. This project will use and extend the archive and draw on the expertise of MIT Literature and Theater Arts faculty and external collaborators to enhance education at MIT by creating a set of on line teaching modules for use in the Global Shakespeare curriculum that is emerging here at MIT. Prof. Donaldson will deliver these modules on their servers and, ideally, on OCW to be shared more broadly with the rest of the world.