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This is the webpage that explains the Open Learning Initative at Carnegie Mellon. In addition to the courses listed below, there are links to Research, Publications, and Presentations.

"Statics is a sophomore level engineering course, offered in all mechanical and civil engineering programs. We study methods of quantifying the forces between bodies, for example parts of mechanical, structural, and biological systems."

"The Probability and Statistics course is comparable to the full semester course on Statistics taught at Carnegie Mellon University. Your access includes the complete online course including all expository text, simulations, case studies, comprehension tests, interactive learning exercises, and StatTutor. The course covers the topics of Exploratory Data Analysis, Producing Data and Study Design, Probability and Statistical Inference."

"The Statistical Reasoning course is the same as the Probability and Statistics course except that it includes a new streamlined probability option that forgoes the classical treatment of probability in favor of an empirical approach using relative frequency. There is an early focus on probability distributions as a way to describe patterns arising in a long series of repetitions of random phenomenon. This approach includes only those concepts that are necessary to support a conceptual understanding of the role of probability in inference. Examples use contexts from real world problems and simulations set in real world contexts."

"The material in Causal and Statistical Reasoning examines the nature of causal claims and the statistical sorts of evidence used to support them. This course contains: 1.approximately 20 content modules, 2.a repository of over 100 short case studies, and 3.a "Causality Lab" that allows students to simulate the work a social scientist does in trying to discover what causes what from data. 4.a cognitive tutor that teaches D-separation."

"This introductory course in "Modern Biology" covers topics found in the fields of cellular biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics. It does not cover organismal biology or taxonomy. This course is a requirement for biology majors at Carnegie Mellon University. The course is carefully planned to provide the background biology students will need for advanced biology classes. Non-biology majors will also find this course useful as it explains many of the concepts and techniques currently discussed in the popular press."

"Biochemistry is an introductory course that explores the relationship between chemical principles and biological function. This one semester course is required for chemical engineering and biology majors at Carnegie Mellon University."

"The learning experience in the Stoichiometry course is constructed from the following types of components: 1.Videos that introduce the scenarios and chemical concepts, and provide worked examples of stoichiometry computations. 2.Scaffolded homework activities provide learners with hints and feedback on an as-needed basis, and fade this help appropriately such that learners remain challenged but not floundering. 3.Virtual laboratory activities that couple the mathematics of the course with authentic chemistry experiments, helping learners see how their calculations relate to chemistry practice. The Virtual Laboratory is a simulation-based learning environment for aqueous chemistry. It allows learners to select from hundreds of standard reagents and manipulate them in a manner that resembles that of a real lab.

"Chemical equilibrium, and its application to acid-base chemistry and solubility, is widely viewed as one of the most challenging topics to learn in an introductory chemistry course. This course is the outcome of two years of research on what makes this topic difficult to learn and how we can improve instruction. Our research revealed two important ideas that are essential to understanding chemical equilibrium, but are either absent or downplayed in traditional instruction. The first is the central importance of the "progress of reaction" coordinate to reasoning about chemical equilibria. The second is the existence of a "majority-minority species strategy" that can be used to reason about the types of chemical reactions that occur most commonly in acid-base chemistry and other application areas. Our research shows that instruction centered around these ideas substantially improves student performance on challenging problems involving chemical equilibrium."

"This online course is based on the 2005 version of Modern Chemistry II (course number 09-106) taught at Carnegie Mellon University. The course contains a full semester of lectures interspersed with concept quizzes, practice problems and virtual lab activities. The course is broken up by topic into units and modules."

"Each of the 15 lessons follows the same structure of activities: •Introduction: presentation of communicative and cultural goals for the lesson •Communication 1: Recognize sounds and words in a video dialogue. •Mots et expressions: Learn to repeat and understand parts of dialogues. •Structures: Study the grammatical basis of the spoken dialogues. •Sons: Learn the sound system of the language. •Communication 2: Learn to understand and produce French. •Univers culturel: Study aspects of French and francophone cultures. •Activités de synthèse: Use your French in writing and speaking activities.

"The French courses are introductory, interactive video-based courses intended for use by university students and independent learners on the Internet. Each course is divided into five thematic modules, with three lessons within each module. Each lesson is designed to take approximately one week to complete so working though an entire course will take the average learner approximately fifteen weeks. Completing both courses will require two semesters or approximately thirty weeks. Each lesson opens with a video dramatization that sets the context for the lesson. Parts of the video are then replayed in a variety of interactive activities and tutors. Each video in the course was written specifically to serve as the foundation for the lesson in which it is used. These high quality videos were produced with French actors on location in France so the speech and movements and contexts are authentic. The beginning of each lesson is always a set sequence, from simple recognition of language in a video dialogue, through explicit learning of grammar and pronunciation, to written and spoken production of variations on that language. After this ordered beginning, a number of activities are offered to the student in which the language learned is used in understanding new texts, sounds or videos or in creative production (conversation or writing)."

"Logic & Proofs is an introduction to modern symbolic logic. It provides a rigorous presentation of the syntax and semantics of sentential and predicate logic. The distinctive emphasis is on strategic argumentation."

"The Andes Physics course currently provides over 500 problems that are suitable for both calculus and non-calculus introductory physics courses at the college or advanced high school level."

This course is conducted through a number of videos. It consists of 4 different units.