U Arizona chemistry professor receives grant to design open online learning course for Google - MARK ARMAO, Arizona Daily Wildcat

A UA chemistry professor was recently awarded a $50,000 grant to design a free online chemistry course for Google. The massive open online course (MOOC), which will be available in the fall to anyone with Internet access, is being created by Katrina Miranda, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry. “It’s really exciting to be potentially touching the lives of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people with this type of project,” Miranda said. Google has sponsored the creation of several MOOCs since the format originated about five years ago. “We’re very interested in experiments and explorations in this MOOC arena,” said Karen Parker, education program manager at Google. http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2013/04/ua-chemistry-professor-receives-grant-to-design-course-for-google