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'''''Coming home from a MOOC ''''' ''' arXiv:1410.0988 (2014)''' | '''''Coming home from a MOOC ''''' ''' arXiv:1410.0988 (2014)''' | ||
+ | To appear in '''Computing in Science and Engineering (2015)''' | ||
=Paper (Preprint)= | =Paper (Preprint)= |
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W. Krauth Coming home from a MOOC arXiv:1410.0988 (2014) To appear in Computing in Science and Engineering (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)