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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Many of you may know about Mass Open Online Courses (MOOC) which are now available & free for millions of people around the world. MOCC will be transforming our traditional higher education systems. Thomas L. Friedman (Author of <b><i>The world is flat</i></b>) even sees MOCC as “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/opinion/sunday/friedman-revolution-hits-the-universities.html?_r=0">Revolution hits the Universities</a>”. At the moment, </span><a href="https://www.coursera.org/">Coursera</a> <span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>is the most popular platform and you can pick up any course you like among hundreds available. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>EdX (link below) is another platform initiated by Havard and MIT on which many new courses on climate change and energy may be useful for your work. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Enjoy learning!!! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Bests,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>QNga</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Benn Thomas (Restricted) <br><b>Sent:</b> 20 June 2013 11:06<br><b>To:</b> DL CCED - All Staff (Restricted)<br><b>Subject:</b> UNC: Free Harvard, Georgetown, Yale, etc Climate Change and Energy Courses Online</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Harvard, MIT, Georgetown and a few other big name US universities have been running free online courses for a few semesters now. The range of courses on offer has been growing rapidly along with their popularity and they’ve recently expanded to include climate change and energy issues. Content typically includes filmed lectures, Q&A sessions, discussion forums, regular feedback sessions as well as recommending core texts. You can usually watch lectures in your own time and they tend to have questions that you have to answer after each lecture. Assessments vary for each university and each <span style='color:black'>course and there’s usually the option to audit them. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>You’ll find a few energy/climate change related courses in the link below but feel free to filter the search to see what else they have to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.edx.org/course-list/allschools/environmental%20studies/allcourses">https://www.edx.org/course-list/allschools/environmental%20studies/allcourses</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Benn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p 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