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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 2378yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Welcome to Science Literacy
  • A Difference of Opinion
  • Heuristics
  • Science isn't "Just a Theory"
  • Traditional Knowledge: Part 1
  • Traditional Knowledge: Part 2
  • Traditional Knowledge: Part 3
Readings
  • Creating Convincing Arguments 
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Empirical, anecdotal or logical
  • Biases in Decision-Making
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Types of Bias
  • Science and Not Science
  • Metaphysical Thought
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Metaphysical 
  • Accumulating Knowledge
  • Suggested Reading
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Traditional and Scientific Knowledge
Practice Exercises
  • Empirical evidence 
  • Pre-flection: Common Sense and Intuition 
  • Common sense and intuition
  • End of Module 1 Quiz

Videos
  • Pseudoscience and Science-ploitation
  • Fraud Science, Bad Science or Pseudoscience?
  • Why do we fall for Pseudoscience?
Readings
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Science vs Pseudoscience
  • Watch and Reflect: Hallmarks of Pseudoscience
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Hallmarks of Science vs Hallmarks of Pseudoscience 
  • Logical Fallacies
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Logical Fallacies 
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Uncertainty Vs Logic 
  • Carl Sagan: The Demon Haunted World
Practice Exercises
  • Preflection: Science or Pseuodoscience?
  • Science or Pseuodoscience? Review
  • Science, Fraudulent Science or Bad Science?
  • Uncertainty 
  • Uncertainty Review
  • Video reflection: Skeptical or not? 
  • The Demon-Haunted World: Reflection
  • The Demon-Haunted World: Reflection II
  • The Demon-Haunted World: Reflection III
  • End of Module 2 Quiz

Videos
  • Alternative explanations
  • Correlation is not Causation
  • Replicability in Evidence
  • The Strength of Evidence
  • Falsifiability
  • Occam's Razor
Readings
  • The Who, What, Why, When and How of Critical Thinking
  • Thinking Critically about a Claim 
  • Thinking Critically About a Claim 2
  • Revisiting terms about Correlation-Causation
  • Article: Illusions of Causality 
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Correlation, Not Causation 
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Replicability
  • The 3 Rs
  • Why didn't the bird cross the road? 
  • Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence 
  • Watch and Reflect: How did our view of the Universe Change?
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Claims Proportional to the Evidence
  • Ylang Ylang Evidence Review 
  • Karl Popper
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Falsifiability and Risky Predictions 
  • Watch and Reflect: Falsifiability
  • Onsite inspection of reputed UFO landing marks at Duhamel, Alberta
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Making Fewest Possible Assumptions
  • Recommended listening and reflection
Practice Exercises
  • Reflection: Critical Thinking or not? 
  • Lesson Reflection
  • Assessing Associations 1
  • Assessing Associations 2
  • Replicability
  • Why didn't the bird cross the road?
  • Astronomy Video Reflection
  • Lesson Preflection: Falsifiability
  • UFO or UF-NO?
  • End of Module 3 Quiz

Videos
  • Variables
  • Research techniques and models
  • Sampling
  • Correlation
Readings
  • What is in a Scientific Paper?
  • What Can Blind Fish Teach Us About Sleep?
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Variables
  • What is a hypothesis
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Hypothesis testing
  • Research Design 1
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Population Sample
  • Research Design 2
  • Research Design 3
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Surveys
  • Research Design 4
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Research Design Case Study
Practice Exercise
  • End of Module 4 Quiz

Videos
  • Peer Review: the scientist's perspective
  • Statistics
  • Science Communication 
  • Sharpening and Levelling
  • Science Vs Opinions
  • Scientists can miscommunicate their science too!
  • Congratulations!
Readings
  • Watch and Reflect: What is Peer Review? 
  • Read a Peer Reviewed Article
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Evidence Based Conclusions from Primary and Secondary Sources
  • Watch and Reflect: Descriptive Statistics
  • How Scientists Use Statistics, Samples, and Probability to Answer Research Questions
  • Watch and Reflect: Inferential Statistics
  • Using Inferential Statistics
  • Drag and Drop Activty: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
  • How to avoid statistical errors
  • When statistical significance is not practically significant
  • Watch and Reflect: Statistical vs Practical Significance 
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Practical vs Statistical Significance 
  • Watch and Reflect: The Importance of media communicating science1
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Problems and Solutions in Science Reporting 
  • Suggested Listening: Torah Kachur
  • News Coverage of A Scientific Finding
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Sharpening, Levelling or Pseudosymmetry
  • Disparity in claim on social media and strength of supporting evidence
  • Watch and reflect: Social Media
  • Watch and reflect: Scientists Communicating Science
  • Rules for Scientists Communicating Science
  • Scientists "digesting" their science to a general audience
  • Writing Your Digest
  • Drag and Drop Activity: Spreading and Stopping Misinformation
  • Watch and Reflect: Insist on Evidence- Open Data
Practice Exercises
  • Preflection: What is Peer Review?
  • Assessing the meaning of statistics
  • Case Study: Biofilm
  • Abstract and Highlights 
  • News Coverage Article Reflection
  • Sharpening and Levelling 
  • Open Data
  • End of Module 5 Quiz

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