A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Change as an Opportunity
New Experiences
Considering Others' Viewpoints
Dealing with Stress
A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Understanding Different Points of View
Understanding the Context of Problems
Connecting Information with Critical Thinking
Thinking About Multiple Solutions
A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Working as aTeam Player
Finding Common Ground
Shared Responsibilities and Creative Input
Dealing with Conflict in a Positive Way
A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Speaking Professionally
Communicating Digitally
Nonverbal Communication
Understanding How to Listen
A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Inspiring Collaboration
Ethics and Innovation
Utilizing Technological Advances
Searching for Information
A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Differentiating Empathy with Sympathy
Actively Listening
Respecting Diverse Backgrounds
Understanding Others' Needs at Work
A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Taking Initiative
Connecting Ideas and Innovating
Taking Risks and Learning from Mistakes
Thinking Like an Entrepreneur
A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Being Prepared
Bouncing Back and Learning from Adversity
Dealing with Conflict and Compromise
Seeing Personal Growth as a Way of Life
A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Evaluating Strengths and Areas of Growth
Understanding the Effects of Actions
Workplace Manners
Finding a Good Fit
A set of instructional videos paired with a simple assessment. Learners that get a passing score are awarded a digital badge.
Topics covered:
Respecting Other Backgrounds
Understanding the Importance of Social Diversity
Expanding Your Definition of "Normal"
Working Effectively in a Diverse Environment
Examples and quizzes to reinforce understanding of APA and MLA style and formatting. A quiz bank is available in XHTML or Moodle XML format. These can be imported into a learning management system for students to check their understanding.
This activity guides students through the evaluation of a website that they have created to see if it is accessible for users with disabilities. Students will simulate a number of different disabilities (e.g. visual impairments, color blindness, auditory impairments, motor impairments) to see if their website is accessible; they will also use automated W3 and WAVE tools to evaluate their sites. Students will consider the needs of users with disabilities by creating a persona and scenario of a user with disabilities interacting with their site. Finally, students will write up recommendations to change their site and implement the changes.
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Although this activity can be used in isolation, it is intended to be part of a series guiding students towards the creation of a front-end of a website. The series (all published as OER) consist of:
a) Needfinding
b) Personas, Scenarios and Storyboards
c) Front-end Website Design and Development
d) Accessibility Evaluation
This course is about the electronic properties of materials and contains lectures about scattering, transport in metals, phonons and superconductivity.
Our human society consists of many intertwined Large Scale Socio-Technical Systems (LSSTS), such as infrastructures, industrial networks, the financial systems etc. Environmental pressures created by these systems on EarthŰŞs carrying capacity are leading to exhaustion of natural resources, loss of habitats and biodiversity, and are causing a resource and climate crisis. To avoid this sustainability crisis, we urgently need to transform our production and consumption patterns. Given that we, as inhabitants of this planet, are part of a complex and integrated global system, where and how should we begin this transformation? And how can we also ensure that our transformation efforts will lead to a sustainable world? LSSTS and the ecosystems that they are embedded in are known to be Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). According to John Holland CAS are "...a dynamic network of many agents (which may represent cells, species, individuals, firms, nations) acting in parallel, constantly acting and reacting to what the other agents are doing. The control of a CAS tends to be highly dispersed and decentralized. If there is to be any coherent behavior in the system, it will have to to arise from competition and cooperation among the agents themselves. The overall behavior of the system is the result of a huge number of decisions made every moment" by many individual agents. Understanding Complex Adaptive Systems requires tools that themselves are complex to create and understand. Shalizi defines Agent Based Modeling as "An agent is a persistent thing which has some state we find worth representing, and which interacts with other agents, mutually modifying each otherŰŞs states. The components of an agent-based model are a collection of agents and their states, the rules governing the interactions of the agents and the environment within which they live." This course will explore the theory of CAS and their main properties. It will also teach you how to work with Agent Based Models in order to model and understand CAS.
This course covers American Government: the Constitution, the branches of government (Presidency, Congress, Judiciary) and how politics works: elections, voting, parties, campaigning, policy making. In addition weęll look at how the media, interest groups, public opinion polls and political self-identification (are you liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican or something else?) impact politics and political choices. Weęll also cover the basics in economic, social and foreign policy and bring in current issues and show how they illustrate the process.
In this class we will practice skills in reading, analyzing, and writing about fiction, poetry and drama from a select sampling of 20th Century American Literature. Through class discussion, close reading, and extensive writing practice, this course seeks to develop critical and analytical skills, preparing students for more advanced academic work.
In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and thematic developments of the novel in this period, focusing on the relationship between writers and readers, the conditions of publishing, innovations in the novel's form, fiction's engagement with history, and the changing place of literature in American culture. The reading list includes works by Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth and Edward P. Jones. The course concludes with a contemporary novel chosen by the students in the class.
ASL II is a sequential course following ASL I, which continues to build knowledge of the naturally existing language widely used by Deaf people in North America. Since ASL is a visual-gestural language, students will need to continue to develop unique communication skills. These consist of using the hands, body, face, eyes and space. In order to achieve progress in this class, it is important to become comfortable communicating with your whole body and listening with your eyes.
ASL III is the third quarter of the first year study of American Sign Language (ASL) and the people who use it. ASL III will enhance the use of ASL grammar and consist of concentrated efforts to develop the studentęs expressive and receptive skills. The course will continue to provide insights into Deaf Cultural values, attitudes and the Deaf community. Now learning more abstract concepts of the language, ASL III students will be able to: narrate events that occurred in the past, ask for solutions to everyday problems, tell about life events, and describe objects. Students will also be able to: demonstrate intermediate finger spelling competency, generate complex ASL structures with intermediate vocabulary knowledge, execute a wide variety of grammatical principles, including classifiers and inflections, adapt to different sign language registers, dialects and accents, and create opportunities to interact with members of the Deaf community.
An introductory course in analog circuit synthesis for microelectronic designers. Topics include: Review of analog design basics; linear and non-linear analog building blocks: harmonic oscillators, (static and dynamic) translinear circuits, wideband amplifiers, filters; physical layout for robust analog circuits; design of voltage sources ranging from simple voltage dividers to high-performance bandgaps, and current source implementations from a single resistor to high-quality references based on negative-feedback structures.