{"id":10700,"date":"2012-01-16T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2012-01-16T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T15:30:56","slug":"open-climate-101-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2012\/01\/open-climate-101-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Climate 101 Online"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Almost 3000 non-science major undergraduates at the University of Chicago have taken PHSC13400, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, since Ray Pierrehumbert<\/a> and I (David Archer<\/a>) first developed it back in 1995. Since the publication of the textbook<\/a> for the class in 2005 (and a much-cleaned-up 2nd edition now shipping), enrollment has gone through the roof, it’s all I’ve been able to teach the last few years, trying to keep up with demand. I hear it is the largest class on campus, with 4-500 students a year out of an annual class of only around 1400. Now the content of this class is being served to the internet world at large: Open Climate 101<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n

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You can watch video lectures followed by quizzes to challenge and hopefully stimulate your understanding, and work your way through tutorials with interactive models and simple mathematical ideas. Actually all that stuff has been available for a long time, online or in the textbook<\/a>, but now it’s packaged into an interactive assessing system, which admittedly lacks the personality and finesse of our graduate student teaching assistants<\/a>, but I hope it’ll get the job done. You can work at your own pace, on your own time. You don’t get University of Chicago credit, but it’s free, and if you get to the end of it you can download a certificate of accomplishment with your name and a verification code, signed by me. I hope people find it useful. <\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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