关键信息
关于内容
Explore the role of technology and data in cities, and learn how you can participate in the creation of smart cities.
Cities are incubators of innovation and opportunities but they also face great challenges such as rapid urbanisation, climate change and inequality. How can smart cities address these challenges and become more resilient? And what role will people play in the design and planning of our smart cities?
This free online course will help you to navigate your own path through the complex landscape of smart cities. You’ll hear from smart city innovators and entrepreneurs, city leaders, communities and business, connecting with learners from around the world to reflect on issues facing smart cities of different sizes and situations.
课程大纲
You’ll explore what it’s like to live in a smart city, the role of systems thinking, living labs, open data, crowdsourcing and roadmaps. You’ll debate challenges of privacy, ethics and security, and weigh up the value of leadership, standards and metrics. You’ll learn how to co-create a smart city project where you live.
Get started by capturing an image of what a ‘smart city’ means to you and share it with your fellow learners in the Smart Cities pre-course Padlet activity. It can be a photo, drawing or digital image.
The course has been developed as part of MK:Smart, a £16 million collaborative smart city initiative partly funded by a grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and led by The Open University, which will develop innovative solutions to support the economic growth of Milton Keynes.
Your educators are Dr Lorraine Hudson who is developing the MK:Smart citizen education strand and Professor Gerd Kortuem, one of the lead academics of the initiative.
教师
- Lorraine Hudson
- Gerd Kortuem
内容设计师
开放大学是一所英国公立大学，成立于 1969 年。它是英国唯一一所远程教育大学。其总部位于白金汉郡的米尔顿凯恩斯，但设有 13 个地区中心。该大学授予学士学位、文凭和证书，以及硕士学位和博士学位。
2011 年，该校学生人数超过 25 万，是英国最大的教育机构1。大多数学生在英国，但也有超过 25000 名学生在欧洲、非洲和东亚学习。自建校以来，已有 300 多万名学生在此学习。2005 年，英国政府在英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰进行了一次全国学生调查，结果显示该校学生的满意度最高。
平台
FutureLearn est une plate-forme d'apprentissage proposant des formations en ligne ouvertes à tous (MOOC)
Fondée en Décembre 2012, la société est entièrement détenue par l'Open University à Milton Keynes, en Angleterre.
Elle est la 1ère plateforme offrant des MOOC au Royaume-Uni, avec à son actif plus d'une cinquantaine d'universités partenaires provenant du Royaume Uni mais aussi du reste du monde.
FutureLearn se différencie également par des partenariats avec des entités non-universitaires comme le British Museum, le British Council, la British Library et la national Film and Television School.
