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UCirvine: AMC, Instructure and UCI to offer multidisciplinary MOOC based on ‘The Walking Dead’ Massive open online course will use AMC's hit TV series to teach concepts in social science, public health, mathematics and physics.
University launches online course with TV show. 5 September 2013Last updated at 07:52 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent A university course will be based on TV show the Walking Dead Can zombies be the stuff of serious academic study?
And could they be shuffling towards a new type of future for higher education? In what is being claimed as the biggest ever experiment in "edutainment", a US television company is forming a partnership with a top-ranking Californian university to produce online courses linked to a hit TV show. This blurring of the digital boundaries between academic study and the entertainment industry will see a course being launched next month based on the post-apocalypse drama series the Walking Dead.
Television shows might have spin-off video games or merchandising, but this drama about surviving disaster and social collapse is now going to have its own university course. Showbiz lessons Mad Men, another AMC series, could be used for a course on advertising Dumbing down? Apocalypse studies Personal learning. 'Walking Dead' MOOC, Zombie-Based Online Class, Offered By UC Irvine. The University of California, Irvine is offering an online course based on AMC's popular TV show "The Walking Dead.
" The massive open online course is titled "Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC’s 'The Walking Dead.'" It's free and it will last eight weeks. The class will be offered on Instructure’s MOOC platform and taught by four UC Irvine professors from different disciplines: Zuzana Bic, public health; Joanne Christopherson, social sciences; Michael Dennin physics; and Sarah Eichhorn, mathematics. "'The Walking Dead' provides many poignant case studies related to the scholarly areas covered in the course, and it helps that it’s one of TV’s most popular shows," Bic said in a news release.
"There will be something for everyone in this course, which will explore concepts as varied as post-disaster nutrition, the foundations of human survival and stereotypes in a Darwinian environment. " ‘The Walking Dead’ College Class: UC Irvine Partners with AMC. The zombie craze in popular culture has infected higher education.
TV PILOTS/DEVELOPMENT SCORECARD: Follow all of the development action during upfront season University of California, Irvine, has announced an online course based on “The Walking Dead.” The university is partnering with AMC, home of the zombie-themed hit series since it premiered in 2010, and Instructure, a provider of online academics, to create the online course. Students will view scholarly subjects such as social science, public health, mathematics and physics through the lens of a hypothetical zombie apocalypse, using examples from the one portrayed in the series. The eight-week course will be free and open to the public around the world, and it will be hosted through Instructure’s Canvas Network program. The massive open online course, or MOOC, is being developed through UCI Extension with no public funds used.
‘The Walking Dead’ inspires free online college course at University of California, Irvine. Gene Page Herds of students will now be able to take a course based on ‘The Walking Dead’ at the University of California, Irvine It's a dream that's now one step closer to reality: a generation of college graduates who majored in "The Walking Dead" with a minor in "Game of Thrones.
" The University of California, Irvine Wednesday announced the launch of a free, open online course built on AMC's major cult hit "The Walking Dead. " The course, which is co-produced by AMC and Instructure, is modestly titled "Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC's 'The Walking Dead.'" Its goal is to look at "a broad range of issues through the lens of a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. " Gene Page Theresa Beyer, vice president of promotions and activation at AMC says the course taps into the zombie series’ focus on ‘survival, leadership and adapting to situations that are perilous and uncertain.’ 'The Walking Dead' MOOC at UC Irvine (with image) · ucirvine. WalkingDead_AMC : Can you survive an apocalypse? FreezePage. AMC Theatres - Get movie times, view trailers, buy tickets online and get AMC gift cards. U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment files for $400 million IPO.