9.07 Statistical Methods in Brain and Cognitive Science (MIT)
This course emphasizes statistics as a powerful tool for studying complex issues in behavioral and biological sciences, and explores the limitations of statistics as a method of inquiry. The course covers descriptive statistics, probability and random variables, inferential statistics, and basic issues in experimental design. Techniques introduced include confidence intervals, t-tests, F-tests, regression, and analysis of variance. Assignments include a project in data analysis.
Peer Review of Teaching - Course Portfolio
In this course portfolio, Dan Bernstein reports on changes he has made over three semesters in a psychology course on learning. He has succeeded in getting more students to achieve higher levels of understanding by changing the assessment from short abstract essay questions to problems that asked students to apply concepts in new contexts, and providing web-based opportunities for students to identify what makes some answers better than others. The portfolio includes examples of the assessments
6.450 Principles of Digital Communications I (MIT)
The course serves as an introduction to the theory and practice behind many of today's communications systems. 6.450 forms the first of a two-course sequence on digital communication. The second class, 6.451, is offered in the spring.
Topics covered include: digital communications at the block diagram level, data compression, Lempel-Ziv algorithm, scalar and vector quantization, sampling and aliasing, the Nyquist criterion, PAM and QAM modulation, signal constellations, finite-energy waveform sp
Open Teaching in a Digital Age
The digital age has rung in profound changes for the higher education endeavor - not least of which has been a revolution in the way teaching materials are generated shared and re-appropriated by means of the Internet. This is the realm of OER: a new philosophy in teaching and learning which has the potential to open new channels for the flow of knowledge. OER UCT invites you to explore the unlimited potential to boost your individual academic profile as well as that of your department or facult
Introduction to Molecular Virology
Introductory Virology for 2nd and 3rd year courses
The material consists of a series of linked pages exploring an introduction to the concept of viruses, and an exploration of their general properties.
This site provides the basis of material for 7-lecture course in introductory microbiology (MCB2016F) and a 20-lecture course (MCB3024S, Defence and Disease) given to third-year students.
The Holloway Series in Poetry: Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe with graduate poet Yosefa Raz
Introduced by UC Berkeley English PhD Candidate, Natalia Cecire
One of the most widely read experimental poets today and the author of over twenty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, Fanny Howe hardly requires introduction to the Bay Area poetry community. Howe's wiry lyrics construct spaces of unsparing sincerity in which to examine and interrogate the embodied qualities of moral abstractions like mercy, guilt, and awe. Scouting through the complex te
Lunch Poems: Fall 2006 Kick-Off
SERIES KICK-OFF
Distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines read and discuss a favorite poem. This year's participants include:
Ani Adhikari (Statistics)
Mary Catherine Birgeneau
Patrick Dillon (California Magazine)
Janette Hernandez (Education)
Davitt Moroney (Music)
Charlotte ...
Stopping Mass Atrocities: An International Conference on the Responsibility to Protect
Welcome & Opening Remarks
- George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley
- Eric Stover, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley
Keynote Address - "The Responsibility to Protect: The Power of an Idea "
- Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group
Panel: Introduction to R2P
This panel will explore the political, historical, and legal underpinnings of the responsibility to protect. It will address the promise and potential of the emerging norm, as well as the challenges t
The 5th dimension
What are “dimensions”? An introduction to the 5th dimension.
Blogs in Plain English
A short introduction to blogs - how they work and why they matter.
NASA CONNECT Team Extreme: The Statistics of Success
In NASA CONNECT, Team Extreme: The Statistics of Success, focuses on NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate and the teamwork required to produce a successful space mission. Students will learn about the numerous systems, skills and capabilities involved in a mission and how NASA manages and integrates these systems. Students will draw a parallel between the teamwork used in a NASA mission and find out how teamwork energizes the popular sport of auto racing. Grades 6-8.
"They Have Largely Destroyed The Pride Of Craft:" Helen Zalph Describes Automation in the Printing I
The introduction of new technologies has always altered the relationship between managers and workers, often by eliminating the need for skilled laborers. Helen Zalph and her colleagues in the printing division of the New York Daily News discovered this fact for themselves when computers revolutionized ...
Union Men Competing Against Each Other: Anne and Al Filardo Describe the Construction Industry in Ne
House building came to a virtual standstill during the depression and war years, a lull that gave way to a massive construction boom that reached far into the postwar period. By that time, however, the nature of the construction industry was undergoing rapid changes. The introduction of new technologies ...
Kinetic connections: Bloom's taxonomy in action
An introduction to strategies for using the web to push your students to higher levels of thinking.
Information literacy: not just for students
Good Internet research skills are important for teachers, too. This article provides an introduction to "information literacy" concepts and a list of references for teachers and media specialists.
Statistical Java
This is a collection of applets regarding various topics in statistics. Topics include Central Limit Theorem, Probability Distributions, Hypothesis Testing, Power, Confidence Intervals, Correlation, Control Charts, Experimental Design, and Data Analysis.
Math in a Sustainable Society
Designed for the community college math class that meets the quantitative skills requirements for an associates degree. In Washington State this course is called Math 107, Math in Society.
The content in this book included financial math, population growth, the algebra of sustainability, statistics ...
Courseware : Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence : Course lectures, hours 42. There are 11 pdf files, total 562 pages. Topics : Introduction to AI; Problem Solving - Search and Control Strategies; Knowledge Representation Issues - Predicate Logic, Rules; Reasoning System - Symbolic, Statistical; Game Playing; Learning; Expert ...
Courseware : Soft Computing
Soft Computing : Course lectures, hours 42. There are 9 pdf files, total 398 pages. Topics : Introduction to Soft Computing; Fundamentals of Neural Network; Back Propagation Network; Associative Memory; Adaptive Resonance Theory; Fuzzy Set Theory; Fuzzy Systems; Fundamentals of Genetic Algorithms; ...
The Changing Workplace
The 20th century ushered in a change from handcrafting to machine tooling. Henry Ford introduced one of the first moving assembly lines as a way to turn out more cars more quickly, and the emerging auto industry popularized this mode. A photo of the Doble Steam Motors Corporation factory shows a line of workers and car chassis in production. This new technology, and the spread of industrialization, changed forever the way that work was completed. A wide variety of industries all across the count
