From Werner KRAUTH

Revision as of 17:29, 4 June 2015

2014 Edition

In the ENS MOOC studio, with Michael Köpf, Alberto Rosso, Vivien Lecomte, and our camera woman, Emilie Noblet, all in front of the green screen.

The Massive open online course (MOOC) on Coursera: Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations, that started on February 3rd, 2014, and drew 30,000 registered students, is now finished. The last of the ten courses was published on April 13, 2014, and the final exam ran until 14 May, 2014. The course videos were viewed 250,000 times, thousands of homeworks were handed in, and there were about 5200 (!) entries on the forum that were viewed far more than 120,000 times, all of this of course for free.

The story of our MOOC was written up in an editorial "Coming home from a MOOC" for "Computing in Science & Engineering" (2015).

2015 Edition

Announcement poster of SMAC2015 Click here for a High-definition version

The 2nd edition of the Massive open online course (MOOC) on Coursera: Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations ran from February 2nd, 2015 through May 26, 2015. Again a great experience, with a new enthousiastic crowd of students. Leave feedback on Twitter under the hashtag #SmacMOOC2015.