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Learn effective approaches to English language teaching. This is the second of two teacher training courses based on the internationally-recognized Shaping the Way We Teach English videos and resources and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the University of Oregon. You can begin with either course. The next Paths course will be November 9-December 14, 2015.

We are constantly using experiments to tweak and find improvements in our personal lives, our communities, and in our work. But are you doing it efficiently? Or are you changing one thing at a time and hoping for the best? In this course, you'll learn how to plan efficient experiments using statistical methods - enabling you to test for many variables that lead to better results.

Explore with us the fascinating ways of thinking about space in Viking Age and Old Norse culture. Together we will discuss how space is conceptualised and depicted in diverse Old Norse genres and traditions.

En este curso aprenderemos a interpretar cómo se inscriben y materializan los discursos acerca del género y la sexualidad en diversos productos y medios culturales (literatura, cine, televisión, fotografía, internet, etc.).

What makes bioinformatics education exciting is that people of a variety of education levels can get started quickly, with just a computer and internet access.

This course introduces innovative approaches to learning and teaching, with a focus on the use of e-learning and social web technologies.

The purpose of this course is to improve feedback, clinical teaching, and assessment of clinical skills.

Political and legal institutions are built on foundational, philosophical ideas--ideas about freedom, equality, justice, and happiness. In this course, we will explore those ideas, taking the institutions around us not as fixed and unquestionable, but as things to evaluate and, if necessary, to change.

This class teaches algorithms for extracting models and other information from very large amounts of data. The emphasis is on techniques that are efficient and that scale well.

How should we interpret chance around us? Watch beautiful mathematical ideas emerge in a glorious historical tapestry as we discover key concepts in probability, perhaps as they might first have been unearthed, and illustrate their sway with vibrant applications taken from history and the world around.

Interprofessional collaborative practice is key to safe, high quality, accessible, patient-centered care. This course aims to introduce health professions learners to the fundamental principles and skills for effective interprofessional collaborative practice.

Dieser Kurs vermittelt ein weites Feld an Grundlagen und Fertigkeiten im Bereich der unfallchirurgischen und orthopädischen Traumaversorgung. Dazu verwendet der Kurs ein komplett neues Konzept des Informationstransfers. Wir folgen einem wissenschaftlichen Ansatz und einer ausgeklügelten Kombination aus modernsten Lehrmethoden, um die Inhalte plastisch zu vermitteln. Dazu verwenden wir fallbasiertes Lernen, umfassendes Faktenwissen gefolgt von Quizfragen, die helfen, das Gelernte im Gedächtnis zu behalten und später im unfallchirurgischen Alltag abrufen zu können.

Discover what shapes how we talk about schools today by exploring the history of U.S. education reform. Engage with the main actors, key decisions, and major turning points in this history. See how social forces drive reform. Learn about how the critical tensions embedded in U.S. education policy and practice apply to schools nationally, globally— and where you live.

This course covers chemicals in our environment and in our bodies and how they impact our health. It addresses policies and practices related to chemicals, particularly related to how they get into our bodies (exposures), what they do when they get there (toxicology), how we measure them (biomonitoring) and their impact on our health.

A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything — time, money, experience, skills, and networks — in any amount, to create a better world. This course will empower you to practice philanthropy more effectively and make your giving more meaningful to both you and those you strive to help.

The European Union is one of the world's largest and most important economies. Those interested in doing business with the EU member states must know the rules and the practice of relevant laws. Therefore, we have designed a course that will give students the essentials of European Union Business Law.

The course offers a review of (at least) the business, legal, pedagogical and technical aspects of MOOCs, destined to higher education professionals who might feel threatened by them in terms of job security.

Using water as the unifying theme, explore ocean and freshwater topics and instructional strategies to integrate environmental content in your teaching practice.

Join us and learn how to develop, test, and deploy high-impact solutions to society's toughest challenges.

Learn about the concept of “personalised medicine” and the impact that our enhanced understanding of genetics has had on modern medicine and society.