Join the MOSAiC expedition virtually with new immersive online learning experience.
Your computer is now a portal to the North Pole. Explore one of the most remote, mysterious regions on Earth from the comfort of your own home with a new massive open online course (MOOC) featuring short lectures by researchers about their work, stunning footage from an Arctic icebreaker, 360 videos and more.
Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic is produced by the CIRES Education & Outreach Program and funded by the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Science Foundation in partnership with the Alfred Wegener Institute. The MOOC highlights the science and journey of the epic MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) research expedition. View for free on the online learning platform Coursera.
“Keeping with the spirit of the MOSAiC expedition, creating this course was truly an international and collaborative effort,” said Lynne Harden, education and outreach associate at CU Boulder and MOSAiC MOOC co-coordinator. “It is a culmination of many hours of filming, editing, field research, and more, all wrapped into an engaging package that anyone can enjoy from the comfort of their own couch.”
The course features 50 videos from almost 40 different speakers that cover all aspects of the science of MOSAiC and a changing Arctic environment and its impact on global shipping routes, the wellbeing of Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Arctic wildlife like polar bears, and much more.
Continue reading at Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Image via Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
