{"id":6950,"date":"2014-12-16T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2014-12-16T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:32:34","slug":"new-mooc-from-cimss-changes-in-great-lakes-weather-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/6950","title":{"rendered":"New MOOC from CIMSS: changes in Great Lakes weather, climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\"  title=\"Changing Weather &amp; Climate in the Great Lakes Region: A UW-Madison MOOC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gsjL6FXTt1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/moocs.wisc.edu\/mooc\/great-lakes-weather-and-climate\/\">Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Regions<\/a>\u201d is one of six new Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to be offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The MOOC will be taught by CIMSS Director and AOS professor Steven Ackerman, and Margaret Mooney, Director of the CIMSS Office of Education and Public Outreach.<\/p>\n<p>The course focuses on the increasing importance of sustainability and environmental stewardship in relation to the Great Lakes ecosystems. Learners around the world will have free access to the course. <\/p>\n<p>True to the basic tenets of the Wisconsin Idea and the education mission of CIMSS, Ackerman and Mooney are part of a team of faculty and researchers aiming to improve people\u2019s lives beyond the physical boundaries of the classroom. Taking it a step further, they have established partnerships with 21 public libraries around the state where participants are invited to attend discussions corresponding to the four-week MOOC.<\/p>\n<p>The University launched an initial series of four MOOCs in 2013, reaching more than 135,000 people across more than 140 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>changes in Great Lakes weather, climate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-6950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles","category-videos","tag-cimss"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}