Professor Uesugi's edX online course "Chemistry of Life" begins
May 7, 2014
Professor Motonari Uesugi
After announcing an alliance with edX in May 2013, Kyoto University officially plunged into the world of massive open online courses on April 10, 2014 when it launched "Chemistry of Life," taught by iCeMS Professor Motonari Uesugi.
edX is a non-profit educational consortium based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was jointly founded by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. edX distributes free online classes from the world's leading universities, providing users with an educational platform of open resources, as well as a basis for networking among institutions of higher-level education.
Professor Uesugi will teach the 15-week course, in which students are expected to spend 3 hours per week studying. While students who pass the course will be given a certificate, the top performing students may be considered for a full scholarship to study abroad for a summer program at Kyoto University.
