http://www.oercommons.org/courses/full-course?sort_on=title&batch_size=20 daily 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-renaissance-in-western-and-world-history-european-civilization-from-the-renaissance-to-the-present An introduction to European history from around 1500 to the present. The central question that the course addresses is how and why Europe-- a small, relatively poor, and politically fragmented place-- became the motor of globalization and a world civilization in its won right. Put differently how did ... Thomas Laqueur Humanities Social Sciences Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/2004-2005-biostatistics-lecture-series The day-to-day collaboration between the researchers in Public Health and Biostatistics at the School reveals unified topics that cut across many applications. This series of presentations introduces the topics that show empirically to be most important in these collaborations; and emphasizes concepts ... Department Faculty Mathematics and Statistics Science and Technology Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/2006-nsf-advance-workshop-negotiating-the-ideal-faculty-position Presentations from the October, 2006 Rice University NSF Advance Conference entitled "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" are herein made available to the public. This workshop provided a unique opportunity for prospective women faculty to learn from established faculty leaders across all science ... Susan Cates Social Sciences Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/2007-advance-faculty-success-workshop This 3-day NSF Advance leadership workshop was designed to provide women in engineering and science with information and advice regarding professional advancement issues at all career levels, including, tenure, promotion and academic leadership roles. The workshop was organized in a Gordon Conference ... Susan Cates Social Sciences Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/2007-nsf-advance-workshop-negotiating-the-ideal-faculty-position Presentations from the 2007 Rice University NSF Advance Conference entitled "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" and held March 14-16 are herein made available to the public. This workshop provided a unique opportunity for prospective women faculty to learn from established faculty leaders across ... Rice Advance Social Sciences Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/2008-nsf-advance-workshop-negotiating-the-ideal-faculty-position Presentations from the 2008 Rice University NSF Advance Conference entitled "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" are herein made available to the public. This workshop provided a unique opportunity for prospective women faculty to learn from established faculty leaders across all science and engineering ... Rice Advance Social Sciences Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/2008-09-open-education-cup-high-performance-computing This collection provides an overview of the 2008-'09 Open Education Cup competition. Contest rules, author resources, and example content are provided. This competition is intended to encourage development of original educational content in the field of parallel computing, with cash prizes awarded to ... Jan E. Odegard Science and Technology Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/4-651-20th-century-art-fall-2002 Critical examination of major developments in European and American art during the past century. Surveys art's engagements with modernization, radical politics, utopianism, mass culture, changing conceptions of mind and human nature, new technologies, colonialism and postcolonialism, and other significant ... Jones, Caroline A. Arts Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/21l-486-20th-century-drama-fall-2001 In this course we will sample the range of mainstream and experimental drama that has been composed during the past century. Half of these plays are now acknowledged to be influential "classics" of modern drama; the other half are prize-winning contemporary plays that have broken new ground. We will ... Henderson, Diana Humanities Social Sciences Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/20th-century-fiction-fall-2002 Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes: the role of the artist in the modern period, the representation of psychological and sexual experience, the virtues (and defects) of the aggressively experimental character of so many modern books. Works ... Thorburn, David Humanities Social Sciences Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/2-971-2nd-summer-introduction-to-design-january-iap-2003 Introduce students to the creative design process, based on the scientific method and peer review, by application of fundamental principles and learning to complete projects according to schedule and within budget. Subject relies on active learning through a major team-based design-and-build project ... Slocum, Alexander H. Science and Technology Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/aberdulais-falls-a-case-study-in-welsh-heritage This unit looks at the Aberulais Falls in Wales, and considers the key issues affecting the decision-making of the bodies which are responsible for looking after our heritage. We examine the heritage debates: who decides what should be preserved from the Arts Humanities Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/9-56j-abnormal-language-fall-2004 Introduction to the linguistic study of language pathology, concentrating on experimental approaches and theoretical explanations. Discussion of Specific Language Impairment, autism, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, normal aging, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, hemispherectomy and aphasia. ... Wexler, Kenneth Hirsch, Christopher Science and Technology Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/academic-administration-finance-and-management 1.) Theory Learning Goals: a.) Understanding theoretical perspectives in academic administration, finance and management including the Microtechnique constructions TORI and noesis as well as some organizational principles from General System Theory Squared, GST2, (GST2 by Lindblom). The course is in ... Eric Lindblom Business Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/accent-classification-using-neural-networks Creating an algorithm for detecting and classifying accents using formant analysis and neural networks. Andrea Trevino Science and Technology Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/accessibility-in-interaction-design Technology is opening doors for those with disabilities. Being blind or deaf is now far less of a barrier than it was fifty years ago. This unit assesses various disabilities and describes how they might affect a person's use of interactive devices. You will then look at some of the most common assistive ... Science and Technology Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/accessibility-of-elearning It is part of a teaching professional's skills to understand the needs of a diverse population of students. This unit introduces the challenges for disabled students who may use computers in different ways when taking part in eLearning or may need alternative teaching methods. It covers the technology ... Social Sciences Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/achieving-public-dialogue There are a wide range of interactions between 'science' and 'the public'. Examples range from visiting a museum, or indulging in a science-related hobby, to reading a newspaper article about a breakthrough in the techniques of therapeutic cloning. Many of these interactions could be said to be 'passive'. ... Science and Technology Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/6-551j-acoustics-of-speech-and-hearing-fall-2004 Provides acoustical background necessary to understand the role of sound in speech communication. Analyzes constraints imposed by the properties of sound and human anatomy on speech production (sound production from airflow and filtering by the vocal tract); auditory physiology (transformation of acoustical ... Braida, Louis Science and Technology Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/acquiring-and-integrating-geospatial-data Advanced technical, legal, ethical, and institutional problems related to data acquisition for geospatial information systems. George Chaplin Science and Technology Course Related Materials