{"id":10888,"date":"2012-12-21T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T19:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=10888"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T19:14:46","slug":"online-complexity-course-from-santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/21\/online-complexity-course-from-santa-fe\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Complexity Course from Santa Fe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOOCs are all the rage these days. That would be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massive_open_online_course\">Massive Open Online Courses<\/a>, for those of you still stuck in 2007. Apparently Bucky Fuller was pushing the idea back in the early Sixties? These days, with everyone spending most of their waking hours looking at a computer screen, the time has come to get our education on.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafe.edu\/\">Santa Fe Institute<\/a>, always in the vanguard, is stepping up to the plate. <a href=\"http:\/\/web.cecs.pdx.edu\/~mm\/\">Melanie Mitchell<\/a>, a computer scientist at Portland State and external professor at SFI, will be leading an 11-week online course titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafe.edu\/education\/schools\/sfi-mooc\/introduction-complexity\/\">Introduction to Complexity<\/a>, starting January 28. Details are explained in a handy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafe.edu\/media\/files\/sfi_mooc_FAQ.html\">FAQ<\/a>. Lectures given over video, but you can watch them at your leisure, and they will stay online indefinitely. If you want to get a certificate of completion and participate in the student chat room, you have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafe.edu\/mooc\/subscribe\">sign up<\/a> and follow along as the course progresses.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/cHE1Zk2Ov18?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Seems like a great way to spread some specialized knowledge to a wide audience using a novel format. This course is aimed broadly at the interested public, which is great for the interested public but too bad for me, as I would really love to see a version with all the glorious equations. Maybe next time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOOCs are all the rage these days. That would be Massive Open Online Courses, for those of you still stuck in 2007. Apparently Bucky Fuller was pushing the idea back in the early Sixties? These days, with everyone spending most of their waking hours looking at a computer screen, the time has come to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-internet","category-science-and-the-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10892,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888\/revisions\/10892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}