Moons

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24 h
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  • From www.futurelearn.com
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  • Free Access
  • Fee-based Certificate
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  • 8 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Starts on March 3, 2024
  • Ends on April 28, 2024

Course details

Syllabus

Week 1
What are moons?

Week 2
Looking at moons

Week 3
Looking closer

Week 4
Our Moon

Week 5
What we learned from the Moon

Week 6
Water on the Moon

Week 7
Exploring moons

Week 8
Moons and the future

Prerequisite

An interest in learning about the moons of our Solar System and the methods used to understand them. Prior knowledge of astronomy is not expected.

Instructors

David Rothery
Prof of Planetary Geosciences, Open Univ

Joe Stormer
Mentor Moons and Orion on FL, Astronomy on Coursera. 

Editor

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based throughout the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus; many of its courses (both undergraduate and postgraduate) can also be studied anywhere in the world. There are also a number of full-time postgraduate research students based on the 48-hectare university campus where they use the OU facilities for research, as well as more than 1000 members of academic and research staff and over 2500 administrative, operational and support staff. 

The OU was established in 1969 and the first students enrolled in January 1971. The University administration is based at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, but has regional centres in each of its thirteen regions around the United Kingdom. It also has offices and regional examination centres in many other European countries. The university awards undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, as well as non-degree qualifications such as diplomas and certificates or continuing education units.

Platform

FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.

It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.

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