Behind the scenes of my MOOC
The alumni magazine of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has done a great article about my recent massive open online course (MOOC), written by the science...
All posts tagged with Human Evolution Past and Future
Investigating Neandertal behavior with Geraldine and Clive Finlayson
A week ago I was in Gibraltar for the 2014 Calpe Conference. The conference this year is focused on issues of world heritage, as the Neandertal sites of Gorh...
Interview with Lee Berger
As many readers know, I recently offered a massive open online course (MOOC), titled “Human Evolution Past and Future”. The course included video interviews ...
Archaeology is not boring!
Colleen Morgan has a new post at Middle Savagery that may serve as an intervention to those who claim that archaeology isn’t a romantic field: “Stop saying ‘...
Johannesburg update
I imagine my static website for the past three weeks left many people wondering if the Science Cafe led to my untimely demise. “Who Sciences Harder” indeed!
A perspective on MOOCs as experimentation
I’ve been meaning to comment on this piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education about MOOCs, by Kevin Werbach: “Dont Call Us Rock Stars”. Werbach has been te...
Photo: Flintknapping
I got out yesterday with some of our UW-Madison graduate students to do a flintknapping circle (and chert-knapping, silicified sandstone-knapping and obsidia...
Textbook troubles
A link from a reader: “‘Required reading’: As textbook prices soar, students try to cope”.
MOOC international enrollment numbers
I just got the first round of statistics on students enrolled in my upcoming MOOC, Human Evolution Past and Future. These date to a few months ago, so don’t ...
How a MOOC can affect the classroom
Duke University evolutionary biologist Mohamed Noor reflects on the way that teaching a MOOC has changed his classroom teaching: “The classroom experience re...
Personal genomes may help students learn genetics
A new paper in PLoS ONE presents a small-scale study of the effects of personal genomics on learning genetics in the classroom Salari:2013: “Evidence That Pe...
Visit to Georgia
I am visiting Tbilisi this week to examine the Dmanisi skeletal collection and to shoot some footage for my upcoming massive open online course (MOOC), “Huma...
Photo: Swartkrans looking out
I’m in South Africa this month doing some work, so I haven’t had time to post quite as often as usual. In the meantime, I will share a few photos as I go. Mo...
Turning eyes toward the future
The Guardian covers a story on risks to humanity: “How are humans going to become extinct?” The occasion for the story seems to be Cambridge University’s des...
Massive courses: massive opportunity or massive problem?
Dan Ariely is an economist at Duke University who has been teaching a massive open online course on behavioral economics to 140,000 students, titled “A Begin...
Announcing my MOOC, Human Evolution Past and Future
Note: This post is archived from 2014. The course went great, with more than 40,000 students enrolled from around the world! You can still watch many of the ...