New “Exploring our Oceans” MOOC.

Dear All

A warm welcome to our new cohort of online students as we prepare to start the second run of our “Oceans” MOOC. The course officially starts on the 27th of October, and we have some really exciting events for this run.

This time around, we are responding to your feedback with more Google Hangout sessions with our new team of facilitators, all current PhD students at NOC (National Oceanography Centre) who will be sharing their experiences of time spent at sea, as well as some details of the wide variety of research they are engaged in, as well as the academics who have helped bring this course to life.

Coring for deep sea sediments, July 2014, about the RV Pelagia as part of the Arctic Landslide Tsunami Project (PI Pete Talling).

We are particularly excited to welcome current A-Level students to the MOOC, there is plenty of material within the course that provides an excellent extension to A-Level subjects such as Geography, Geology, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. If you are thinking of applying to university to study a course relating to the oceans, we would be really happy to chat to you about the various options throughout the course.

In the meantime, we have some posts coming up from our new facilitator team: Cristian Florindo-Lopez, Chris Bird, Josie Robinson, Emma Cavan, Helen Burns, Heather Goring-Harford, Felicity Williams and Rui Vieira, and we are welcoming back Josh Allin and Millie Watts from the first run of the course in February. Many of our facilitators have been actively involved in research at sea this year, and their introductory posts will be going up over the next two weeks.

You can follow us on Twitter at @UoSoceans and the course hashtags #UoSoceans and #FLOceans, our educator and facilitator accounts are: