Online Course: The Energy Challenge – Balancing Resources and Policies | UC Berkeley
February 16th - March 23rd, 2010
Virtual Event
Topic: Energy, Legislation
Event Type: Training/Seminar, Webinar
Tags: Dan Kammen, Matt Wald, New York Times, OLLI, UC Berkeley
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OLLI @Berkeley and the New York Times will offer an exciting online course on today’s hottest environmental and policy issues. Join an international community of participants in our online classroom for weekly discussions with Professor Dan Kammen of UC Berkeley. Access a specially created archive of New York Times articles on energy and related issues, organized by subject to correspond with the topic of the week. Write your own Op-Ed and share your ideas with your international colleagues in our private online forum.
COURSE LECTURES:
Introduction and Overview
Dan Kammen
UC Berkeley Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy, Energy and Resources Group
Energy and the Climate Change Challenge
Severin Borenstein
Director of the UC Energy Institute
Nuclear Energy: Future Directions?
Per Peterson
Director of the UC Berkeley Thermal Hydraulics Research Laboratory
Electricity Transmission Policy for America: Enabling a Smart Grid, End-to-End
Mason Willrich
Chair of the California Independent System Operator’s Board of Governors
Development of Cellulosic Biofuels
Chris Somerville
Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley
Road to Copenhagen and Beyond
Dan Kammen and Matt Wald, New York Times Science Writer
Weekly live discussions with Professor Kammen on Tuesdays from 2-3 pm, PST (Archived for later review)
The Epsilen online classroom is a multimedia, interactive learning environment designed to provide you with easy access to course materials and facilitate dynamic discussion sessions with Professor Kammen. For those for whom time-zone prohibits joining the discussions the online forum will provide an opportunity to participate in the ongoing class conversation, and the live discussions will be archived for later review.
COURSE DETAILS:
- Start date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010
- End date: Friday, March 23, 2010
- Live discussions in the online classroom on Tuesdays, 2-3 pm PST
- Tuesday sessions archived for those who can’t make it
- Discussion forum active for duration of course
- Requires access to a computer with speakers and high-speed internet
- No grades, credit, or certificate issued
- Course will be offered again beginning March 29, 2010
To register, visit: https://www.regonline.com/energy_challenge
For more information, see:
URL: http://olli.berkeley.edu/special-events/energy.html
Organizer(s): OLLI @Berkeley and the New York Times
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