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Das Konzept der cMOOC-Veranstalter begreift das Netz als offenen, digitalen Raum zur Kollaboration und Kommunikation. Verschiedene Referentinnen und Referenten werden live spannende Fragen des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens aufgreifen. Ihre Namen möchten wir an dieser Stelle noch nicht verraten, schließlich handelt es sich um eine Forschungs- und Entdeckungsreise…

Die Termine und Themen der Vorträge stehen bereits fest:

Mi, 12. Juni 2013, 18 Uhr: Was ist wissenschaftliches Arbeiten?Do, 20. Juni 2013, 18 Uhr: Wie funktioniert eine Literaturrecherche?Do, 27. Juni 2013, 18 Uhr: Wozu brauche ich eine Forschungsfrage?Do, 4. Juli 2013, 18 Uhr: Wie findet man methodisch Antworten auf die Forschungsfrage?Do, 11. Juli 2013, 18 Uhr: Wozu braucht man ab und an Mathematik und Statistik im Forschungsprozess?Do, 18. Juli 2013, 18 Uhr: Auf den Punkt gebracht: Wie schreibe ich eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit?Twitter als aktiver Rückmeldekanal während der Vorträge

Alle Impulsvorträge überträgt das Zentrum für Medien und IT der FernUni per Live-Stream ins Netz. Die Teilnehmenden können sich während und nach der Übertragung beim Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter zu Wort melden, Fragen stellen und mitdiskutieren. Schlagwort des zweiten FernUni-MOOC, der so genannte Hashtag, ist #exif13. Zudem gibt es ein eigenes Twitterprofil unter www.twitter.com/exif13 mit Neuigkeiten, Hinweisen und Links (u.a. zu den Live-Streams) rund um die Vortragsthemen.

 

Via Heiko Idensen

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Harappa have uncovered evidence of immigration but also great violence.

Via Ancient World Apps

A remarkable find from 2011 of 33,000 year old dog from a cave in the Siberian Altai mountains showed evidence of dog domestication, the earliest ever found.

Via David Connolly, Irish Archaeology

A Mesolithic cemetery: Ireland's oldest burials. On the banks of the River Shannon a small band of hunter-gathers came to together nearly 9,500 years ago, to bury one of their own

Via Irish Archaeology

A nearly 1,000 year-old rune stone has been rediscovered at Bogesunds brygga west of Vaxholm in Sweden.

The rune stone was found during an excursion which was part of a course in landscape archaeology at Stockholm University. The stone has previously been known, but had been missing since the 17th century.

Via David Connolly

To see Sana'a’s Old City for the first time is like “a vision of a childhood dream world of fantasy castles,” a visitor once remarked, but official neglect and unruly construction are threatening to destroy that magic.

Yemen’s capital is one of the most ancient cities in the world, and entering its oldest quarter has been described “as perhaps the closest thing to time travel” we can experience.

Ancient “tower blocks,” some six stories high, some nine, look like gingerbread castles. With ground floors of black lava stone, their upper stories are of baked brick decorated with intricate geometric shapes and horizontal bands in gypsum whitewash.

Each quarter has a mosque, a hammam (Turkish bath) and a garden around which the houses were built.

In the past, water used for ablution in the mosque was then pooled to irrigate the gardens, used for growing vegetables, and waste was recycled to heat water in the hammams or for fertilizer.

That rich heritage is reflected in 103 mosques, some built more than a millennium ago, 14 hammams and more than 6,000 centuries-old houses, and the Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.

But preservationists are struggling against the ravages of the modern world. Randomly built concrete houses distort the Old City’s skyline, salt from the cement weakens its structure and the once-spacious gardens are disappearing.

Via David Connolly

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) bieten kostenlose Bildung aus Stanford, Harvard und Princeton. Mit Iversity geht auch ein deutscher Anbieter an den Start

Via Heiko Idensen

The prehistoric archaeology of Dublin city

Via Irish Archaeology

Stretching the breadth of northern England, Hadrian's Wall is a majestic reminder of the ambition and might of the Roman Empire's conquest in Britain.

Via Irish Archaeology

A hoard of Roman gold and silver coins, described by an expert as a "lucky" find and likened to the Hoxne treasure, are found in Norfolk.

"As this horde finishes with the coins of Tiberius, it could date to either the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43, or possibly the Boudicca revolt in AD 61, it's difficult to say either way," said Mr Marsden.

"It's likely it was buried to have come from a Roman soldier or perhaps settlers trying to hide their hoard from the Iceni invasion. We tend not to see many of this type of Roman silver coins, so to have 59 is really quite unusual.

"Coins this size have a spending power of about £30-£40 in today's money - it'd certain buy a solider a few jugs of wine."

A medieval gold pendant found in Foxley and a medieval silver seal matrix unearthed in Sustead, near Cromer, were also declared treasure.

Erica Darch, from Norfolk Historic Environment Services and the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), said: "It's important to record all archaeological finds, treasure or not, because when studied as an assemblage they add enormously to our understanding of Norfolk's past.

Via David Connolly

Archaeologists will comb through the 4,000-year-old tombs before road works in Ras Al Khaimah destroy some of them.

 

Archaeologists are in the final days of a three-month rescue excavation of the Qarn Al Harf tombs built by prehistoric date farmers.

Four megalithic, communal tombs are being excavated by archaeologists from the University of Durham in the UK and the Ras Al Khaimah Antiquities Department, ordered by the Ruler of RAK, Sheikh Saud bin Saqr.

Three tombs will be destroyed by the 32-kilometre RAK Ring Road that will bypass the city to connect the quarries and factories of the north coast with the 311 motorway.

The tombs date to the Wadi Suq period, from 2000 to 1600BC.

Via David Connolly