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In 2012, Harvard and MIT launched edX, a massive open online course (MOOC) provider to deliver online learning opportunities to the public. [9] Between 2013 and 2019, some MIT OCW courses were delivered by the European MOOC platform Eliademy. [10] In recent years, MIT OCW has expanded its reach and features.
The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science : natural , social , and formal . [ 1 ]
FutureLearn is a British digital education platform founded in December 2012. The company was acquired by Global University Systems in December 2022 and previously jointly owned by The Open University and SEEK Ltd. [ 4 ] It is a massive open online course (MOOC), microcredential and degree learning platform.
The following are images from various history of science-related articles on Wikipedia. Image 1 The physical exercise chart; a painting on silk depicting calisthenics ; unearthed in 1973 in Hunan , China, from the 2nd-century BC Western Han burial site of Mawangdui , Tomb Number 3 (from Science in the ancient world )
ALISON is an Irish online education platform for higher education that provides certificate courses and accredited diploma courses. [5] [6] It was founded on 21 April 2007 in Galway, Ireland, by Irish social entrepreneur Mike Feerick.
2000 BC: Multiplication tables in a base-60, rather than base-10 (decimal), system from Babylon. [7] 2000 BC: Primitive positional notation for numerals is seen in the Babylonian cuneiform numerals. [8] However, the lack of clarity around the notion of zero made their system highly ambiguous (e.g. 13 200 would be written the same as 132). [9]
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
Historiography – study of the history and methodology of the sub-discipline of history, known as the history of science, including its disciplinary aspects and practices (methods, theories, schools) and to the study of its own historical development ("History of History of Science", i.e., the history of the discipline called History of Science).