26.2656, Media: BBC Radio and MOOCs on Origins of Human Language

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Subject: 26.2656, Media:  BBC Radio and MOOCs on Origins of Human Language

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Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 12:27:56
From: Toru Fujimoto [tfujimt at he.u-tokyo.ac.jp]
Subject: BBC Radio and MOOCs on Origins of Human Language

 Dear LINGUIST Subscribers,

I am sending this message to the people who are in the field of linguistics to introduce new MOOC series on linguistics.

BBC featured Professor Shigeru Miyagawa's (at MIT and UTokyo) theory of origins of human language in a recent Radio 4 program:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tz9jr

Professor Miyagawa has created a new online course in the MOOC format to teach about his work. He has been working hard on this course, so I would like to help him to gain more attentions from the people who are interested in the theme.

It is available free at:

https://www.edcast.org/learn/origins-of-human-language-birds-monkeys-and-humans-spring2015

The course starts June 15th. Anyone can register for the course today.

If you pass the course, you can choose to receive a certificate signed by Professor Miyagawa for a small fee. Professor Miyagawa has also invited some colleagues to create two companion courses, Birdsong by Prof. Kazuo Okanoya, UTokyo, and Primate origins of human language by Profs. Juichi Yamagiwa and Hiroki Koda, which are
also available on EdCast:

https://www.edcast.org/

Best regards,
Toru Fujimoto
Assistant Professor
Center for Research and Development of Higher Education
The University of Tokyo
tfujimt at he.u-tokyo.ac.jp
 
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Neurolinguistics



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