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Category Archives: Teaching
Set to go live, Wellesley 207x and questions of scale…
In two days, Wellesley 207x – Introduction to Human Evolution, will go live. The course is the culmination of a fairly frenzied amount of work over the past three months, and I am excited to see that work actually reach … Continue reading
Forensic osteology resource
The good people at forensicosteology.org have put together a large number of resources related to the field. I see today that they have a wonderful metabase of searchable osteology trauma specimens, including catalog/institution reference information as well as photographic (and … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Teaching
Tagged data access, forensic anthropology, human osteology, online resources, osteology, trauma
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Creating scientific knowledge within an evolutionary framework
In my class today, we are talking about how you create knowledge regarding human evolution. We will discuss, in brief, how we know what we know about the world around us. In that context, we will talk about how scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Teaching
Tagged 207x, anthropology as science, epistemology, four-field anthropology, science, WCAnth207
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Anth 207x – Step 1, integrating the liberal arts classroom and the MOOC environment
Tuesday is the first day of Wellesley classes for the Fall 2013 semester. As such, it also marks the first day in Wellesley’s experiment with online education. That experiment is beginning with my course, Anth 207x (Introduction to Human Evolution). … Continue reading
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Tagged 207x, MOOC, online education, WellesleyX
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Planning ahead: Wellesley, online education, and 207x
With 207x (Introduction to Human Evolution) about a month away preparations have entered a frenzy mode. As it turns out, right after the class goes live, I will be speaking at Wellesley “Family and Friends” weekend about the intersection between … Continue reading
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What I am reading this weekend (August 30, 2013)
…prior to the arrival of students, the beginning of school, and the traditional ramping up of Fall. The Academy Fight Song, by Thomas Frank (The Baffler) The coming of “academic capitalism” has been anticipated and praised for years; today it … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Geology, Teaching
Tagged Academia, China, Lower Pleistocene, Nihewan basin, poetry, taphonomy
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Entering the online teaching universe
I have been in radio blackout mode the past week busily getting materials ready for my tenure review. But I have also been deep in preparations for my Introduction to Human Evolution course coming up this Fall, which is notable … Continue reading
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Tagged Anth207x
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Preview video for Anth 207x
The course “trailer” for Anth 207x (Introduction to Human Evolution) has been released. You can check it out at EdX or directly on YouTube. It was fun to film and has me looking forward to producing much of the rest … Continue reading
Greetings from Kazakhstan!
I am very briefly back in Almaty after a successful week at the Paleolithic site of Valikhanova, in South Central Kazakhstan. While I was away, the announcement of my Fall course, Anthro 207x – Introduction to Human Evolution, done in … Continue reading
Anthropology 207x – Making it easier to ask better questions
In my post yesterday, I pointed out that one of my goals in Anthropology 207x is to disseminate a lot of information about human evolution. In addition to disseminating this information, my plan is to also provide an introduction to … Continue reading
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