I am not musical which is why I was lured into Stanford professor Tina Seelig's online class on musical creativity. I do not even have a voice decent enough to entertain myself in the shower. Creating music as well as playing an instrument is so off my personal radar that I was curious to see what I could learn from this experience. The other aspect that attracted me was the size of the class - 22,553 people from all over the world! Ages range from 15 to 80. Communication is a bit unwieldy to navigate with endless pages of forums and concerns on the site. My first assignment is posted above, a record cover about me entitled Eventually as that is my modus operandi. Everything I do gets done eventually. If it's on the list it will get done - eventually. 
The cultural and intellectual diversity as well as the immensity of a class like this is mind boggling.  It almost becomes random as to who you choose to connect with.  Ideally I would like to be part of a team where everyone is from a different country. That aspect of the learning experience is in some way more valuable than the content of the class. This is a new paradigm of continuing education. This is the second online class I have taken. I came away from the last one with new friends I had never met face to face as well as a generosity of spirit that was alien to my physical classroom experiences. I am also a little dubious about teaching musical creativity in a few weeks. Trusting the process will hopefully erase my doubts. My ears are open to the adventure before me.