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Big History: Connecting Knowledge

Name: Big History: Connecting Knowledge
Rating: 8.9 (1536 reviews)

We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale. These problems do not neatly fall into disciplines. They are complicated, complex, and connecte...

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(1,536 reviews)

85,505 students

Created by

David Christian

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8.9 / 10

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8.7 / 10

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8.7 / 10

Video Score: 8.4 / 10

The course includes 5h 49m video content. Courses with more videos usually have a higher average rating. We have found that the sweet spot is 16 hours of video, which is long enough to teach a topic comprehensively, but not overwhelming. Courses over 16 hours of video gets the maximum score.

The average video length is 3 hours 36 minutes of 242 History courses on Coursera.

Detail Score: 7.9 / 10

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Extra Content Score: 9.8 / 10

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96 articles.

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13 tests or quizzes.

Description

We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale. These problems do not neatly fall into disciplines. They are complicated, complex, and connected. Join us on this epic journey of 13.8 billion years starting at the Big Bang and travelling through time all the way to the future. Discover the connections in our world, the power of collective learning, how our universe and our world has evolved from incredible simplicity to ever-increasing complexity. Experience our modern scientific origin story through Big History and discover the important links between past, current, and future events. You will find two different types of lectures. ‘Zooming In’ lectures from multiple specialists enable you to understand key concepts through the lens of different disciplines, whilst David Christian’s ‘Big History Framework’ lectures provide the connective overview for a journey through eight thresholds of Big History.

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How much does the Big History: Connecting Knowledge course cost? Is it worth it?

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The average price is $7.4 of 242 History courses. So this course is 100% cheaper than the average History course on Coursera.

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Who is the instructor? Is David Christian a SCAM or a TRUSTED instructor?

David Christian has created 1 courses that got 198 reviews which are generally positive. David Christian has taught 85505 students and received a 4.78 average review out of 198 reviews. Depending on the information available, David Christian is a TRUSTED instructor.

More info about the instructor,

David Christian

Big History Institute

Macquarie University

David Christian (D.Phil. Oxford, 1974) is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. In 1989, he began teaching courses on ‘Big History’ at Macquarie University, surveying the past on the largest possible scales, including those of biology and astronomy. David is the author of ‘Maps of Time’, the first text on Big History. He recently co-authored ‘Big History: Between Nothing and Everything.’ David is a Distinguished Professor of History at Macquarie University, founder with Bill Gates of the Big History Project, and Director of the Big History Institute.

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