I discovered PEL in 2013 while engaged in a quixotic experiment in online education involving a form of learning making headlines at the time: Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs). MOOCs came on the scene a couple of years earlier, after professors at Stanford were stunned when free online courses they offered to the world drew in hundreds of thousands of participants. The Continue Reading …
Santa Fe Institute MOOC on Complexity
The Santa Fe Institute has jumped into the massive open online course game, launching "Introduction to Complexity" run by Melanie Mitchell, a professor of computer science at Portland State University and author of Complexity: A Guided Tour. The Santa Fe Institute has done lots of interesting work over the years in complexity, chaos, and emergent systems. One thing I've always Continue Reading …