Free online course about Group Decision Making - anyone want to do it and form a Loomio Community study group?
Alanna Irving
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If you'd like to join our study group, please join this subgroup. Everyone is welcome!
There's a free online class from Coursera called Making Better Group Decisions: Voting, Judgement Aggregation and Fair Division, which I have signed up for.
Since by definition many people in the Loomio community are interested in this topic, I was wondering if anyone else might want to sign up and we could host a studygroup here on Loomio, which other people who aren't able to take the course could also learn from.
Details: Starts 25 August, goes for 7 weeks, requires 1-3 hours/week of study time. The instructor is Eric Pacult of the University of Maryland.
EDIT: There's a bunch of people interested (yay!) so I'll set up a subgroup for us before the course begins and we can use it for our study group. If you're interested, go ahead and sign up for the course and make yourself known in this thread so I know to add you.
Deleted account Fri 18 Jul 2014 3:21AM
Awesome, I'd really like to participate in this and perhaps encourage some people from my org to come too. We've had a number of process questions on decision making lately and it would be great to have the knowledge.
Id also like to be more active in this community, so this would be a great way to do that.
Count me in!
Meg Rose Fri 18 Jul 2014 3:23AM
Yes! Wonderful opportunity Alanna, thank you. I'm in!
Alanna Irving Fri 18 Jul 2014 3:25AM
Yay! Glad people are keen. Please sign up using the link to the course above. I've already done so myself - it was really easy.
Peter Barron Fri 18 Jul 2014 3:27AM
Kia Ora Alanna
Depending on timing I would be very interested especially if the class is going to look at tools fro multi-criteria decision making
Jason Pemberton Fri 18 Jul 2014 3:51AM
Very keen! Signing up right now
Matthew Bartlett Fri 18 Jul 2014 6:58AM
Cool idea @alanna !
Cobi Fri 18 Jul 2014 11:35AM
yes! I'm interested. Thanks for setting it up!
Deleted account Fri 18 Jul 2014 2:27PM
Signed up! Do add me to the sub-group! Thanks heaps!
Wade Schuette Fri 18 Jul 2014 3:09PM
Umm... the enthusiasm is great and definitely a study group is wanted by a LOT of people -- but did you look at the preview of the lectures for THAT PARTICULAR course? It looks pretty abstract and mathematical, even as a springboard for side discussions, and I was a mathematical physics major. "Background material" includes sections on functions, probability, and predicate calculus?
https://class.coursera.org/votingfairdiv-001/lecture/preview
Alanna's idea is wildly popular, but maybe there's a better course to start with that won't dampen people's enthusiasm quite so much as hours of algebra tends to do?
Simon · Fri 18 Jul 2014 3:06AM
Great idea Alanna. This is something I'd really like to do in the way you propose and I would encourage people to say yes. Unfortunately I can't this time as I'll be on a big holiday.