University of Wisconsin Offers Six MOOCs
University of Wisconsin-Madison is going global this winter with six new MOOCs, not a cow moo with a cough, but Massive Open Online Courses. These are free, non-credit courses taught by UW-Madison faculty. To access the courses or read more about them, go to moocs.wisc.edu. The course schedule is as follows:
- January 26 to February 22, The Land Ethic Reclaimed: Perceptive Hunting, Aldo Leopold and Conservation
- February 23 to March 31, Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region
- April 26 to May 23, Shakespeare in Community
- June 21 to July 18, Energy and the Earth
- September 30 to December 28, Forests and Humans: From the Midwest to Madagascar
- November 9 to December 4, Climate Change Policy and Public Health