by Columbia Online | Oct 23, 2017 | Announcements
Frontiers of Science is a one-semester course in Columbia’s Core Curriculum that challenges students to reflect on questions of science as they relate to the world around them. Students typically take the course in one of the two semesters of their first year. The...
by Columbia Online | Oct 11, 2017 | Announcements
There are currently 450 participants enrolled in the course, including active duty service members and student veterans. Columbia’s Center for Veteran Transition and Integration has launched a massive open online course geared toward helping veterans across the nation...
by Columbia Online | Oct 4, 2017 | Announcements
Columbia University’s Global Muckraking: Investigative Journalism and Global Media MOOC (massive open online course), which received worldwide participation during its initial release, will once again be offered on the edX platform starting today, October 4. The...
by Columbia Online | Sep 27, 2017 | Announcements
The Center for Teaching and Learning interviewed Angelina Craig-Flórez, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, about her course, Spain in its Art, which covers the history of Spain and Spanish art from the Middle Ages to the...
by Columbia Online | Sep 20, 2017 | Announcements
Research in Mandarin Chinese phonology and pronunciation shows that adult learners of Chinese have the greatest difficulty with using four tones to differentiate otherwise homophonous syllables. The traditional pedagogical intervention (i.e. error correction) has been...
by Columbia Online | Sep 14, 2017 | Announcements
Watch a video interview with Professor Sarah Hansen on her experience redesigning a general laboratory course. Sarah Hansen, Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry, faced a teaching challenge in her General Laboratory course. Every student came to class with...