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Related: farmal • SciencesMOOCs: Top 10 Sites for Free Education With Elite Universities MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses. Although there has been access to free online courses on the Internet for years, the quality and quantity of courses has changed. Access to free courses has allowed students to obtain a level of education that many only could dream of in the past. Rosetta arrives at comet destination / Rosetta Comet on 3 August 2014 Rosetta arrives at comet destination 6 August 2014 After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA’s Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System exploration. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Rosetta now lie 405 million kilometres from Earth, about half way between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, rushing towards the inner Solar System at nearly 55 000 kilometres per hour.
Activity 14 : Comparing MOOCs We are invited to compare a connectivist MOOC, for example Change.mooc.ca and an institutional MOOC, for example a Coursera one. I participated in a Coursera MOOC lately, the EDC MOOC (e-learning and digital culture) and I’d like to take it for analyze. I hope it’ll bring shades in the debate opposing xMOOCs and cMOOCs. Analysis 1) This parallel highlights well the new "institutionalisation" of MOOCs (in Weller’s words, Weller, 2012) led by companies like Coursera, edX, Udacity… : this course is not an individual initiative but an official one, signed by a university rather than by teachers in their own names; there are forms of assessment and accreditation, like in a "real" course in a Higher Education school.
K12 free online courses K - 12 MOOCs & MOOCs for Teacher Development MOOC Providers in Alphabetical Order: of News Corp. MOOC for AP Computer Science. A free, two-semester MOOC for anyone interested in learning programming, geared specifically toward high school Advanced Placement students who are serious about taking the AP Computer Science A Exam in Spring 2014. A complete curriculum, syllabus and all course materials developed and taught by a master high school teacher will be free and available for the 2013–2014 school year.
Earth life 'may have come from Mars' 28 August 2013Last updated at 20:09 ET By Simon Redfern Reporter, BBC News, Florence Life would face challenges on Mars today, but billions of years ago conditions might have been better Life may have started on Mars before arriving on Earth, a major scientific conference has heard. New research supports an idea that the Red Planet was a better place to kick-start biology billions of years ago than the early Earth was. How it Works Real Classes From Science to Art to Technology, edX offers simply the best classes from the best professors and universities. Check out the new edX Demo course. New Horizons SOC Welcome to the New Horizons image site, where NASA and the New Horizons mission are happy to provide these JPEG images - displayed in raw form without special processing - for the public to use and enjoy. These JPEGs of images taken by the LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) are generally posted within 48 hours after receipt at the New Horizons Science Operations Center. The date/time listed in the image caption is when the picture was taken by the spacecraft, though receipt of the data on Earth could be many days later, depending on when the image is downloaded from New Horizons. In addition, the fully validated and calibrated images will be made available at NASA's Planetary Data System within nine months to a year after receipt of all images on the ground.
Cassini: Mission to Saturn: Enceladus Overview: For decades, scientists didn’t know why Enceladus was the brightest world in the solar system, or how it related to Saturn’s E ring. Cassini found that both the fresh coating on its surface, and icy material in the E ring originate from vents connected to a global subsurface saltwater ocean that might host hydrothermal vents. Key Points