http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 21 May 2013 00:16:45 PDT Tue, 21 May 2013 00:16:45 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=449824 This course provides an understanding of the complex and challenging public health issue of food security and in a world where one billion people are under-nourished while another billion are overweight. Explores the connections among diet, the current food and food animal production systems, the environment and public health, considering factors such as economics, population and equity. Case studies are used to examine these complex relationships and as well as alternative approaches to achieving both local and global food security and the important role public health can play. Guest lecturers include experts from a variety of disciplines and experiences. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84953 Home study program for keeping current with the beef industry. Topics include Health Management for Reproduction, Breeding Herd Nutrition, Health Management, Pasture Management and Value Based Marketing. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=645385 As their site states, "Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses." This site has links to a number of biology courses, from introductory molecular and cellular biology, to more advanced topics such as marine biology, microbiology, immunology, and more. Courses contain readings, videos, assignments, exams, and syllabi, and are built on solid learning objectives. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=475044 This is an online course recorded in 2009 in the Open Yale Courses Project. From the course main page: This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment. It discusses major ideas and results in a manner accessible to all Yale College undergraduates. Recent advances have energized these fields with results that have implications well beyond their boundaries: ideas, mechanisms, and processes that should form part of the toolkit of all biologists and educated citizens.Stephen C. Stearns is the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and specializes in life history evolution and evolutionary medicine. He was educated at Yale, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of British Columbia. His books include Evolution, an Introduction; Watching from the Edge of Extinction; and The Evolution of Life Histories, and he is the editor of Evolution in Health and Disease and The Evolution of Sex and Its Consequences. He founded and has served as president of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Tropical Biology Association. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77787 This site provides information about the internal structures of plants. The site contains information about the different cell types and tissues. It gives detailed, colored pictures that show parts and structures. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=542609 This online course is from MIT's Open Course Ware project: from their web site:[This course] explores the role of scientific knowledge, discovery, method, and argument in environmental policymaking from both idealistic and realistic perspectives. The course will use case studies of science-intensive environmental controversies to study how science was used and abused in the policymaking process. Case studies include: global warming, biodiversity loss, and nuclear waste disposal siting. Subject includes intensive practice in the writing and presentation of "position statements" on environmental science issues. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84954 This site has good information on sustainable agriculture practices. There are 5 modules with this site with activities for each module. The following key themes inform the whole curriculum:Sustainable agriculture addresses social, environmental, and economic impacts. Food system and agroecosystem analysis offer critical theoretical frameworks for understanding agriculture. Sustainable agriculture is defined and driven by goals. Practices are sustainable only insofar as they support those goals. Thus the same practice may be sustainable in one context and unsustainable in another.Real world examples provide the best opportunities for understanding the potential and the challenges of sustainable agriculture. The curriculum provides some case study examples, but teachers are strongly encouraged to introduce students to people engaged in sustainable agriculture or food businesses in their immediate area. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=288076 Tufts open courseware includes course content in: life sciences with multidisciplinary approach, an international perspective, and an underlying ethic of service. The following courses are available by school: School of Dental Medicine, School of Medicine, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, The Fletcher School, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Arts and Sciences. This website also contains imgaes/graphics, video, links related to material, learning assignments and teacher's guide to help further the knowledge and information for interested viewer's. For more information please go to http://ocw.tufts.edu http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555591 This is an online course from MIT's Opencourseware initiative.This course examines joint fact-finding within the context of adaptive and ecosystem-based management. Challenges and obstacles to collaborative approaches for deciding environmental and natural resource policy and the institutional changes within federal agencies necessary to utilize joint fact-finding as a means to link science and societal decisions are discussed and reviewed with scientists and managers. Senior-level federal policymakers also participate in these discussions. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555827 This is an online course from MIT's Open Courseware project from 2007.This subject is on regional energy-environmental modeling rather than on general energy-environmental policies, but the models should have some policy relevance. We will start with some discussion of green accounting issues; then, we will cover a variety of theoretical and empirical topics related to spatial energy demand and supply, energy forecasts, national and regional energy prices, and environmental implications of regional energy consumption and production. Where feasible, the topics will have a spatial dimension. This is a new seminar, so we expect students to contribute material to the set of readings and topics covered during the semester.