关于此课程： 在全球范围内，我们目前面临着前所未有的挑战。这些问题并不完全属于学科问题。它们是复杂的， 复合的，并互相连接的。加入我们这个开始与大爆炸和穿越时间到达未来的史诗旅程。探索我们世界的联系，集体学习的力量，我们宇宙如何从难以置信的简单进化到仍不断增长的复杂。经历现代科学起源故事，穿越大爆炸和发现过去、现在和未来事件的重要联系。你将发现两个不同类型的课程。“放大”来自多个专家的课程使你能够通过不同学科的视角理解关键概念，“大历史框架”课程提供穿过大历史八个阈值的旅程的概述。
此课程适用人群： Anybody interested in the history of the Universe.
制作方： 麦考瑞大学
教学方： David Christian, Professor
Big History Institute
教学方： David Baker, Associate Lecturer
Big History Institute
| 承诺学习时间 | 6周的学习，一周2-4小时 |
| 语言 | English, 字幕： Romanian |
| 如何通过 | 通过所有计分作业以完成课程。 |
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授课大纲
第 1 周
Big History, Critical Thinking, & Transdisciplinarity
Welcome to Big History! This is where we use the power of a transdisciplinary perspective to explore broad trends in the grand narrative of 13.8 billion years. In this module you'll learn how Big History works, explore critical-thinking, how we know what we know, and learn about the first "3 Thresholds of Increasing Complexity", milestones around which Big History is organized, starting at the beginning of the Universe, space, time, and everything in existence.
5 视频, 15 阅读材料
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Glossary
- Reading: How This Course Works
- Reading: The Big History Forums
- Reading: International Undergraduate Scholarship Opportunity
- Reading: The Big History Bonus Points Scheme
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Richard Menary - What is the relationship between historical & scientific explanation?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Jenny Duke-Yonge - How do we decide what to believe?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - How did our Universe get more complex?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Big History, Critical Thinking, & Transdisciplinarity
- Reading: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - Starting Out
已评分: Big History, Critical Thinking, Transdisciplinarity
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第 2 周
The Universe, Stars, and Planets
Our journey across space and time has begun. In this module, in a timeline that covers billions of years, we'll explore the origins of the universe, new stars & elements, and the solar system. You'll have the opportunity to examine cosmology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, and geology.
9 视频, 22 阅读材料
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Quentin Parker - What is the observable evidence for the Big Bang?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Quentin Parker - How do we know how stars form?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Ian Jamie - Where did the elements come from?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Ian Jamie - What is the periodic table?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 4 significant?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Craig O'Neill - How did the solar system form?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Dick Flood - What is our Earth's history and how do we know it?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - The Universe, Stars, & Planets
- Reading: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - From the Inanimate Universe to Life
已评分: The Universe, Stars, and Planets
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第 3 周
The Evolutionary Epic
Travel through the evolutionary epic from the origin of life c.3.8 billion years ago, the evolution of complex forms after c.550 million years ago, to the evolution of some very odd primates - humans. Zoom in and explore evolutionary biology, geology, palaeontology, and anthropology.
8 视频, 21 阅读材料
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Michael Gillings - Where did life come from?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Simon George - How do we get dates for Earth's history?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Michael Gillings - How does evolution work?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Glenn Brock - How do palaeontologists study the history of life?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 6 important?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Greg Downey - Why did our ancestors evolve such unusual abilities?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - The Evolutionary Epic
- Reading: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - The "Two Cultures" Meet
已评分: The Evolutionary Epic
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第 4 周
Human History
After billions of years of cosmic evolution, our own rather peculiar species has emerged to cultivate even greater heights of increasing complexity. In this module, we will explore the long trend of human development from the origin of our species c.200,000 years ago to the eve of the Industrial Revolution. You will explore archaeology, paleography, and ancient, medieval, and early modern history.
7 视频, 15 阅读材料
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 7 important?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Susanne Binder - Where did writing come from?
- 视频: CASE STUDY: Susanne Binder - Reading Hieroglyphs
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Peter Edwell - What were the Silk Roads?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What were the main changes in agrarian civilizations?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Human History
- Reading: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - Collective Learning's "Snowball Effect"
已评分: Human History
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第 5 周
Modernity
We have now arrived at one of the most dynamically changing periods ever seen in human history - our own times. This module will explore how the agrarian era that had lasted for 10,000 years transitioned to the modern era with its explosion of production and complexity. We will explore modern history, political science, and economics.
6 视频, 16 阅读材料
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Mark Hearn - How did Modernity evolve after the Industrial Revolution?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Stephanie Lawson - How far can globalization go?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Wylie Bradford - Why is the world economy so integrated?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 8 important?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Modernity
- Reading: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - Onward to Threshold 9
已评分: Modernity
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第 6 周
The Future
We've looked far into the deep past, now is the time to take what we've learned and look ahead. In this module we will explore the near and distant future, what challenges we face this century, how we study the future on the scale of billions of years, and where complexity may go from here. The section incorporates climatology, cosmology, physics, and foresight.
4 视频, 9 阅读材料
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Lesley Hughes - How is our climate changing and what does this mean for our future?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: ZOOMING IN: Quentin Parker - Why is the future of the Universe easier to study than the future of humanity?
- Reading: Resources
- Reading: Timeline
- Reading: Glossary
- 视频: BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What have we learned from the Big History story?
- Reading: Course Contributors
已评分: The Future
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已评分: Final Assignment
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制作方
麦考瑞大学
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评分和审阅
It's been one of the best periods of my studying life taking this Big History course. I have learned so much and it has made me even hungrier to acquire further knowledge in this new field. I plan on doing the course again (unofficially) but this time I would like to be able to really go through all the Amazing resources that the course provides. I have already purchased a few books and plan to purchase more. Now I need to read them. I have discovered some wonderful lecturers, specialists in their fields and would like to thank each and every one of them for all their dedication and hard work. Everybody in the world should be invited to do this course. We should not be allowed to live on this planet without knowing what Big History teaches us. It is so important to understand where we come from, how fragile we all are and the challenges we face if we cannot start repecting our home, because we are talking about our home
I loved the course, I agree upon the age history of the Universe and physical Earth, but do not buy human evolution from other primates for a minute. I have studied this problem for too long and the linkage is weak. Bypassing recorded written human history, calling fossil history more important is a very big error for any Historian. The historical Evidence really shows that some Being or Beings intervened in mankind within the last 10,000 years, with the introduction of Language, probably with the introduction of mankind himself by these beings we refer to as God. This history is left out of the Big History course, not even mentioned as a possibility. For that decisively selective direction of this history teaching I must give the course only 4 and not 5 stars. A Historian must cover ALL the possibilities and let the student of history examine the Evidences seen and written. That is what I do.
This is a great course for individuals that want to enhance their knowledge on the history of the universe since 13.8 billion years ago.
PC
I found that this course open my eyes and mind to our very existence in this world. Starting from the beginning of time the Big Bang. Awesome course. Will recommend this course. Thank You.