From Werner KRAUTH

W. Krauth Coming home from a MOOC arXiv:1410.0988 (2014) Computing in Science and Engineering March/April 2015 91 (2015)

Paper (Preprint)

Abstract My ten-week Massive Open Online Course "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations", in early 2014, focused on subjects such as Monte Carlo sampling, molecular dynamics, transition phases in hard-sphere liquids, simulated annealing, classical spin models, quantum Monte Carlo algorithms, and Bose-Einstein condensation, etc. It familiarized a huge international crowd of students with cutting-edge subjects in computational physics. Here, I present the topics of the course, its basic design ideas, its scope and challenges, and compare it with earlier attempts in online teaching.

Electronic version (from arXiv, original version)

Poster (Announcement of the 2015 MOOC)