{"id":7472,"date":"2018-08-06T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2018-08-06T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:39:09","slug":"netdragon-collaborates-with-smithsonian-cbs-and-others-to-offer-star-trek-online-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/netdragon-collaborates-with-smithsonian-cbs-and-others-to-offer-star-trek-online-course\/","title":{"rendered":"NetDragon Collaborates with Smithsonian, CBS, and Others to Offer Star Trek Online Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Chinese online gaming company, a U.S. museum, a network broadcast station, a professor, and a film critic walk into a bar to talk about Star Trek \u2026 That\u2019s not the setup for a joke\u2014it\u2019s the forces behind a new online course, \u201cStar Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology\u201d which will be hosted on NetDragon\u2019s Learning for a Small World platform. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The collaboration features a cast of characters as diverse as the Starship USS Enterprise. The Smithsonian Institution has provided expertise and educational content. CBS Consumer Products will also provide know-how regarding the cultural and technological impact of the series.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Life Imitates Art<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The course will be taught by Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, curator of the Smithsonian\u2019s National Air and Space Museum, along with Scott Manz, a film critic and producer who has a long history with the <i>Access Hollywood. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis online course offers a great way to experience the National Air and Space Museum\u2019s approach to artifacts and history from the comfort of your own home,\u201d said Weitekamp in a release. \u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful example of the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s commitment to reaching beyond the walls of our museums to educate and inspire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Learners will get a look at a number of items currently on display at the Smithsonian, along with some of the institution\u2019s collections that are rarely available to the public. Weitekamp and Mantz will be joined throughout the six-part course from numerous other academics and experts.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7473\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7473\" src=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/16481219558_6e841a0e7a_o-1024x442.png\" alt=\"star trek\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/16481219558_6e841a0e7a_o-1024x442.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/16481219558_6e841a0e7a_o-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/16481219558_6e841a0e7a_o-768x331.png 768w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/16481219558_6e841a0e7a_o.png 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GeraldFord, Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>NetDragon Makes Moves in Education<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Of all the groups involved in this effort, NetDragon appears at the outset to be the odd one out. The company specializes in massive multiplayer online games. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">But at the same time, NetDragon has been making inroads into education for nearly a decade. The company established Elernity, an online learning resource center and community, in 2010. They have also recently acquired the textbook publisher JumpStart and the educational technology provider Promethean World. Most recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/netdragon-got-quite-a-deal-on-edmondo-christopher-nyren-saw-it-coming\/\"><span class=\"s2\">NetDragon took over Edmodo<\/span><\/a> as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">That explains the online course. It\u2019s also no secret that NetDragon founder and Chairman Liu Dejian is a major Trekky. In 2015, he obtained a license from CBS to convert the NetDragon headquarters Fuzhou, Fujian province into the world\u2019s only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/1808281\/chinese-star-trek-fan-treads-new-frontiers-his-spaceship-office\"><span class=\"s2\">full size replica of the Starship USS Enterprise<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The project cost HK$1.27 billion and features long metal slides that extend from the third to the ground floor, allowing employees to \u2018beam\u2019 down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNetDragon is committed to innovation in the field of online learning,\u201d said Dr. Simon Leung, Net Dragon Vice Chairman\u00a0and\u00a0Executive Director, in a release. \u201cWe believe Learning for a Small World fills an important niche in our learning product portfolio. Online learning communities are central to our strategy and form a core component of the new online learning platform.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Learning for a Small World is one of NetDragon\u2019s latest ventures. It is intended to draw in adult learners for inexpensive courses. These learning modules will be more in the entertainment category and won\u2019t necessarily help you train for a new career. Other topics currently in development include \u201cFake News: Fears, Tribes, and Headlines,\u201d \u201cGenomics: Playing God,\u201d and \u201cESports: Rise of the Digital Gladiators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">As the platform states in its mission statement, \u201cThe boundary between fiction and reality is no longer clear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Cover Image: NASA, Unsplash.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese online gaming company, a U.S. museum, a network broadcast station, a professor, and a film critic walk into a bar to talk about Star Trek \u2026 That\u2019s not the setup for a joke\u2014it\u2019s the forces behind a new online course, \u201cStar Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology\u201d which will be hosted on NetDragon\u2019s Learning for a Small World platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-editors-picks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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