Macquarie University - Big History: Connecting Knowledge
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Duration | 29 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
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Credential | Certificate |
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- We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale. These problems do not neatly fall into disciplines. They are complicated, complex, and connected. Join us on this epic journey of 13.8 billion years starting at the Big Bang and travelling through time all the way to the future. Discover the connections in our world, the power of collective learning, how our universe and our world has evolved from incredible simplicity to ever-increasing complexity. Experience our modern scientific origin story through Big History and discover the important links between past, current, and future events. You will find two different types of lectures. ?Zooming In? lectures from multiple specialists enable you to understand key concepts through the lens of different disciplines, whilst David Christian's ?Big History Framework? lectures provide the connective overview for a journey through eight thresholds of Big History.
Big History: Connecting Knowledge at Coursera Curriculum
Big History, Critical Thinking, & Transdisciplinarity
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What is Big History?
ZOOMING IN: Richard Menary - What is the relationship between historical & scientific explanation?
ZOOMING IN: Jenny Duke-Yonge - How do we decide what to believe?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - How did our Universe get more complex?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Big History, Critical Thinking, & Transdisciplinarity
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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - Starting Out
Big History, Critical Thinking, Transdisciplinarity
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The Universe, Stars, and Planets
Mind-Expanding, not Head-Exploding
ZOOMING IN: Quentin Parker - What is the observable evidence for the Big Bang?
ZOOMING IN: Quentin Parker - How do we know how stars form?
ZOOMING IN: Ian Jamie - Where did the elements come from?
ZOOMING IN: Ian Jamie - What is the periodic table?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 4 significant?
ZOOMING IN: Craig O'Neill - How did the solar system form?
ZOOMING IN: Dick Flood - What is our Earth's history and how do we know it?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - The Universe, Stars, & Planets
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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - From the Inanimate Universe to Life
The Universe, Stars, and Planets
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The Evolutionary Epic
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 5 important?
ZOOMING IN: Michael Gillings - Where did life come from?
ZOOMING IN: Simon George - How do we get dates for Earth's history?
ZOOMING IN: Michael Gillings - How does evolution work?
ZOOMING IN: Glenn Brock - How do palaeontologists study the history of life?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 6 important?
ZOOMING IN: Greg Downey - Why did our ancestors evolve such unusual abilities?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - The Evolutionary Epic
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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - The "Two Cultures" Meet
The Evolutionary Epic
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Human History
ZOOMING IN: Yann Tristant - How did people live in the Palaeolithic?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 7 important?
ZOOMING IN: Susanne Binder - Where did writing come from?
CASE STUDY: Susanne Binder - Reading Hieroglyphs
ZOOMING IN: Peter Edwell - What were the Silk Roads?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What were the main changes in agrarian civilizations?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Human History
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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - Collective Learning's "Snowball Effect"
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Modernity
ZOOMING IN: Kate Fullagar - What was the Industrial Revolution?
ZOOMING IN: Mark Hearn - How did Modernity evolve after the Industrial Revolution?
ZOOMING IN: Stephanie Lawson - How far can globalization go?
ZOOMING IN: Wylie Bradford - Why is the world economy so integrated?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 8 important?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Modernity
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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - Onward to Threshold 9
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The Future
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What might Threshold 9 be?
ZOOMING IN: Lesley Hughes - How is our climate changing and what does this mean for our future?
ZOOMING IN: Quentin Parker - Why is the future of the Universe easier to study than the future of humanity?
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What have we learned from the Big History story?
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