Englishes MOOC

Englishes MOOC* was a digital art project that took the form of a Massive Open Online Course or MOOC. Its subject was the variety of Englishes used as a medium of expression, mediation, and education in art practices around the globe. Its aim was to emancipate art makers, art audiences, and an as wide as possible public, from having to measure their use of English along native-like standards in the international realm. English as an artistic medium can be shaped and reinvented according to the needs of its users, to develop a richer, more creative, and more inclusive international language. The Englishes Mooc aimed to raise historical and theoretical awareness of English usage and develop practical skills towards making new varieties emerge. 

Subject areas included phonetics and intonation; history of English in relation to link-, creole- and pidgin languages; history of constructed languages; professional languages and jargons. 

Englishes MOOC was a project by Nicoline van Harskamp. 

Read more at englishes-mooc.org 

*Englishes MOOC proposes a dissolution of English into "Englishes" depicting the development of the plurality of spoken English that displaces the perceived position of primacy occupied by dominant strains of the language. 

Realised in cooperation with Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and with a financial contribution from the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.