By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Technology & the Future: Managing Change and Innovation
This course focuses on the application of theoretical approaches to the strategic management of technology and innovation. Concepts, tools, and process will be explored through lectures, readings, team activities, and case study applications. Major topics include: The importance of technological innovation Dynamics of technological change Factors affecting technological innovation and adoption Organizational strategy and strategic management in the face of rapid technological change ...
Statistics in Education for Mere Mortals
This short course will provide a hands-on introduction to statistics used in educational research and evaluation. Participants will learn statistical concepts, principles, and procedures by building Excel spreadsheets from scratch in a guided learning approach using short video-based tutorials. Examples of specific skills to be learned include scales of measurement, measures of central tendency, measures of variability, and the computation of the following: mean, mode, and median, standard ...
Construcción de un Curso Virtual en la Plataforma Moodle (2ª edición)
Durante el desarrollo del curso, vamos a adquirir competencias que nos permitirán manejar el aula virtual desde el rol de alumno y con enfoque docente. Cada módulo de aprendizaje permite al participante aprender sobre la plataforma Moodle y a usar sus herramientas que la misma ofrece. Además, abordaremos temas como la planificación de cada actividad a generar y la incorporación de recursos Web 2.0. Los espacios de comunicación son un factor clave en todo proceso de enseñanza-...
Estrategias Metodológicas para el Docente E-learning (2ª edición)
El avance tecnológico ha permitido una nueva manera de adquirir conocimientos. Así, hoy, hablamos de una educación a distancia, que aprovechando las plataformas digitales e interactivas (foros, chats, uso de videos explicativos, videoconferencias, etc.), permite que los docentes puedan desarrollar sus clases. Este curso preparará a los docentes en el manejo de estrategias metodológicas aplicadas a cursos virtuales, tales como, la búsqueda, selección y organización de recursos ...
Coasts and Communities & Introduction to Coastal Environmental Science Lab
Coasts and Communities is an open course by the School for the Environment and College of Advancing and Professional Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston. This six-week open course aims to introduce participants to fundamental concepts in coastal environmental science and shows how to collect and evaluate data to solve real-world local environmental problems. Unique to this course is the infusion of real environmental scientists who will introduce you to their work in the coastal ...
Emergence of Life
How did life emerge on Earth? How have life and Earth co-evolved through geological time? Is life elsewhere in the universe? Take a look through the 4-billion-year history of life on Earth through the lens of the modern Tree of Life. A course from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Philosophy and Film
This class will engage some of the central questions surrounding the human experience through the medium of film. Film is not merely entertainment, but rather culture condensed into artistic works created to reflect both who we are and what we want to be. The class will consist of video lectures, short readings and lively discussion boards. Expect to enjoy thinkers such as Aristotle, Marx, and Kant; issues such as “Who am I?” “What is the good life?” and “What is the role of ...
Ozarks Studies
This is an interdisciplinary course that introduces students to the study of the Ozarks through the arts, humanities, media, and social sciences. The course will explore such issues as regional heritage, cultural adaptation, and the survival of regional and cultural identity and folkways through comparison of Ozarks people and places with other cultural groups and regions.
The Fascination of Crystals and Symmetry
Rubies, sugar, snowflakes: crystals are beauty, arranged in grid structures. This MOOC explains the basic building blocks of crystals, their symmetrical structure and introduces free software for crystal structure exploring.
Internationales Agrarmanagement
Landwirtschaft ist heute Management. Um wirtschaftlich entscheiden zu können, brauchen Agraringenieure und Landwirte ausgeprägtes Fachwissen. Das vermittelt der Kurs anhand realer, aktueller Betriebsbeispiele. Auf Deutsch und Russisch. More...