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edX | BUx: Alien Worlds: The Science of Exoplanet Discovery: ASTR105x About Video
Alien Worlds will explore the techniques that are used to discover and characterize the thousands of planets (called exoplanets) known outside of our solar system.
Register for Alien Works from Boston University at [...]https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-astr105x-alien-worlds-science-1569
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Have you ever wondered about planets in other solar systems? Have you ever thought about the possibility of life elsewhere in the Universe? For the first time in human history, we know that planets around other stars not only exist, but are common!
Alien Worlds focuses on the search and characterization of planets orbiting other stars (called extrasolar planets or “exoplanetsâ€). Over the course of nine modules, we will learn some of the techniques used to discover the thousands of known exoplanets and will discuss how we can use basic scientific tools to characterize the sizes, masses, compositions, and atmospheres of exoplanets. We will also learn about the diversity of stars in the Galaxy to understand how stellar properties affect exoplanet detection techniques and influence planetary formation and habitability.
In addition to the exploration of exoplanets, students in Alien Worlds will gain a basic understanding of light, gravity and motion, and be introduced to some of the most extreme life on planet Earth. We will hear from experts at the forefront of exoplanet science and interact with other participants and instructors through social media and online tools. Students will leave Alien Worlds with a better understanding of their place in the Universe and the skills to comprehend the wealth of new discoveries surrounding the countless worlds around distant stars.
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Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics [Course Trailer]
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This course will cover the theory and the fundamentals of the emerging science of Sabermetrics. We will discuss the game of baseball, not through consensus or a fan's conventional wisdom, but by searching for objective knowledge [...]in hitting, pitching, and fielding performance. These and other areas of sabermetrics will be analyzed and better understood with current and historical baseball data.
The course also serves as applied introduction to the basics of data science, a growing field of scholarship, that requires skills in computation, statistics, and communicating results of analyses. Using baseball data, the basics of statistical regression, the R Language, and SQL will be covered.
This course has been successfully taught at the Experimental College at Tufts University since 2004. Many of its former students have gone on to careers writing about baseball and working in various MLB baseball operations and analytics departments.
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PoemJazz: A Conversation Between Melodies
From Robert Pinsky's MOOC, "The Art of Poetry." Week 6: Music & Poetry. Lecture: A Conversation Between Melodies. Robert Pinsky describes his approach to performing poems with jazz musicians.
The Art of Poetry | edX
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BU Teams Up with edX in :60
t's a brave new world in education. So we were thrilled this year to team up with edX, the exclusive MIT- and Harvard-led online learning platform. For the past year, our Council on Educational Technology & Learning Innovation (CETLI) has been [...]exploring and developing our digital offerings. EdX takes things up a few notches. Like the consortium, we're a champion of for-credit classes that mix face-to-face instruction with online work. That means faculty can shift time spent on lectures to one-on-one or small-group teaching, to field trips, or to additional seminars that delve more deeply into topics.
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