![]() ![]() Each week, the MOOC will focus on one of four disciplines (physics, social sciences, math, and health sciences) while a second is used in a supportive, secondary role. The weekly classes will include lectures, discussions with experts in each discipline, interviews with cast members from the show, and, of course, tests. If we can inspire people who don't like math, and suddenly like math, or physics or social and health sciences, then that'd be a win for us." "I would love to see somebody get inspired by one of these topics. ![]() "The chance to reach out to an audience who we may not have been able to touch, or to speak to is very exciting," UC Irvine's dean of distance learning, Melissa Loble, told WIRED. The MOOC will be taught by a multidisciplinary team of faculty, whose topics will include: Maslow's hierarchy of needs it applies to the post-apocalypse the spread of infectious disease and population modeling managing stress in disaster situations and social identity, roles, and stereotyping "as shown through leaders like Rick and the Governor." Sign-up begins today for the free course, titled Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC's The Walking Dead, which will take place for eight weeks starting on October 14 and will run parallel to the upcoming fourth season of the show. "Educational" isn't typically one of them, but that may change next month thanks to a massive open online course (MOOC) created by AMC, educational tech company Instructure, and the University of California, Irvine that uses the horror series to explore principles of science, physics, math, and health sciences. A lot of words come to mind when you think about AMC's zombie show The Walking Dead: thrilling, gruesome, horrific. ![]()
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