Technological, Social, and Sustainable Systems

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  • 8 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Starts on 8 января 2017
  • Ends on 2 марта 2017

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Syllabus

  • The importance of technology and technological systems in shaping the world and our future
  • What issues face technologies companies today and how you might prepare for a career with a tech organization
  • The social and environmental implications of design and management of technology systems
  • How to identify and explain critical principles of complexity and complex systems
  • How art and literature guide technological evolution
  • The economic, environmental, and cultural issues arising from emerging technologies

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

  • Dr. Brad Allenby

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Arizona State University (ASU) is a public university located in Tempe, Arizona. Founded in 1885 as a teacher training college when the state was still a territory, the school became a university in 1958.

ASU is one of the largest public universities in the United States. At the start of the 2018 academic year, nearly 80,000 students were enrolled, including 66,000 undergraduates. In 2017, the number of international students was 10,268. One hundred and fifty nationalities are represented, including France, with Sciences Po Aix in particular.

The university is organised around five campuses and 17 colleges. It offers 350 undergraduate programmes and 400 postgraduate programmes.

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EdX est une plateforme d'apprentissage en ligne (dite FLOT ou MOOC). Elle héberge et met gratuitement à disposition des cours en ligne de niveau universitaire à travers le monde entier. Elle mène également des recherches sur l'apprentissage en ligne et la façon dont les utilisateurs utilisent celle-ci. Elle est à but non lucratif et la plateforme utilise un logiciel open source.

EdX a été fondée par le Massachusetts Institute of Technology et par l'université Harvard en mai 2012. En 2014, environ 50 écoles, associations et organisations internationales offrent ou projettent d'offrir des cours sur EdX. En juillet 2014, elle avait plus de 2,5 millions d'utilisateurs suivant plus de 200 cours en ligne.

Les deux universités américaines qui financent la plateforme ont investi 60 millions USD dans son développement. La plateforme France Université Numérique utilise la technologie openedX, supportée par Google.

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