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- Title
- Teaching Astrobiology online
- Author(s)
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Maddison, Sarah T.
- Abstract
- As part of Swinburne Astronomy Online http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/ (SAO), we run an online short course entitled Searching for Extrasolar Planets and Extraterrestrial Life. The main aim of the short course is to act as a ``feeder'' into our graduate programs and allow students to trial online education while exploring one of the new hot topics of astronomy -- astrobiology. I will present a brief overview of how SAO works, followed by an outline of our short course which has been running for four semesters. In particular, I will focus on why astrobiology is a good choice of topics for an online short course, and look at the successes (and failures) of the course in attracting students to both online education and astronomy -- and astrobiology in particular.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
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Bioastronomy 2002: life among the stars: proceedings of 213th IAU Symposium / R. Norris and F. Stootman (eds.),
pp. 542-544
- Publication year
- 2004
- Publisher
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Publisher URL
- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004IAUS..213..542M
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