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SHIGERU MIYAGAWA:
Guest lecturers

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are an important part
of "Visualizing Japan,"

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the residential course.

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Each time I teach it, I
have Professor John Dower

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guest lecture at least
once, sometimes twice.

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So I also invite
Dr. Ellen Sebring,

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who is a specialist on
visual culture and history.

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And to prepare for
these lecturers,

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I ask the guest lecturers
to give me some assignment

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to give the students.

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In the case of
Professor John Dower,

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he gave me a series of questions
about the MOOC content.

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What did they think about this?

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What do they think about this?

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How do they improve the MOOC?

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And the students wrote a
single page single spaced.

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And I gave that to Professor
Dower ahead of time.

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And he read it.

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And I think he spent almost
half the class talking

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about what the students wrote.

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These students are very,
very engaged with the class.