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How Are 'MOOCs' Changing Science Education?

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Relly Brandman

Relly Brandman is a senior member of the Course Operations team at Coursera. She works with universities all over the world to produce high-impact and engaging classes. Before coming to Coursera, Relly got her PhD at Stanford University as part of the Folding@Home team and did her postdoctoral studies at UCSF building computational models of critical Tuberculosis enzymes. She has many years of teaching experience in chemistry and computational biology, including hands-on workshops and coaching teachers. She is excited about her new adventure being part of a team bringing free, high quality education to anybody with an internet connection.

Keith Eric Grant

Keith Eric Grant (PhD, Applied Science, U.C. Davis) spent several decades as a computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL). As part of the Atmospheric Sciences Division, he helped develop aerosol and radiative-transfer models for atmospheric chemistry and climate assessments. He also worked with the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) in developing the SUNDIALS suite of massively parallel numerical solvers. Post LLNL, his focus is on writing about atmospheric science and mathematical biology. In his spare time, he is both a hiker and instructor of massage therapy.

Kristin Sainani

Kristin Sainani (née Cobb) is a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University and also a health and science writer. After receiving an MS in statistics and PhD in epidemiology from Stanford University, she studied science writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has taught statistics and writing at Stanford for a decade. She also writes about science for a range of audiences. Her stories appear in: Stanford magazine, Stanford Medicine magazine, and Biomedical Computation Review. She authors the health column Body News forAllure magazine. She is also the statistical editor for the journal Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and she authors a statistics column, Statistically Speaking, for the journal PM&R. She recently taught her first MOOC, Writing in the Sciences, on Coursera.

Evolving Education Technology: From Chalkboards to MOOCs

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Assistant professor and science writer Kristin Sainani makes the case that MOOCs, massive open online courses, are just the next step in science instruction.
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