Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

The list of awardees and courses can be found below.  Additional RFPs will be issued in the next academic year.  We look forward to continuing to support Columbia faculty as they develop new and exciting enhancements of teaching and learning at the University, and showcase our outstanding faculty and curriculum to a global audience.

Spring 2022 Massive Open Online Courses Awardees

Frontiers of Science: A Four-Course MOOC Series – Part 2
Columbia College

​David Helfand
Professor of Astronomy; Chair of Frontiers of Science

​Ivana Nikolic Hughes
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry; Director of Frontiers of Science

 

Spring 2021 Massive Open Online Courses Awardees

Frontiers of Science: A Four-Course MOOC Series
Columbia College

​David Helfand
Professor of Astronomy; Chair of Frontiers of Science

​Ivana Nikolic Hughes
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry; Director of Frontiers of Science

 

Columbia Public Health Activist Academy
Mailman School of Public Health

 

​Terry McGovern
Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor
of Population and Family Health; Chair, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health

 

​Heather Krasna
Associate in Health Policy and Management; Assistant Deamn

Decision Making and Reinforcement Learning
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science


Tony Dear, Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science

Spring 2020 Massive Open Online Courses Awardees

Menstruation in a Global Context: Addressing Policy and Practice 
Adolescent Transitions and Environment (GATE) Program, Mailman School of Public Health

​Marni Sommer
Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences

​Maggie Schmitt
Project Director, GATE Program

 

Caitlin Gruer
 Program Manager, GATE Program

Think Bigger
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science & Columbia Business School

​Sheena Iyengar
S.T. Lee Professor of Business

​Harry West
Professor of Practice in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Spring 2019 Massive Open Online Courses Awardees

Artificial Intelligence for Business 
Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science


​Sameer Maskey, Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science

VET 101: Supporting Student Veterans in Higher Education
Center for Veteran Transition and Integration


R.J Jenkins, Curriculum Design Specialist

Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
Institute for the Study of Human Rights

Elsa Stamatopoulou
 Director, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program

​Andrew Nathan
Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science

​Stephanie Grepo
Director, Capacity Building

 

Spring 2018 Massive Open Online Courses Awardees

Attaining Higher Education
Center for Veteran Transition and Integration


​Beth E. Morgan, Director of Higher Education Transition and Partnerships

Making the Case: Audiovisual Case Study Method and Creation
School of International and Public Affairs


​William Eimicke, Director of the Picker Center for Executive Education and Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs

Women Have Always Worked*
Department of History

*revision to existing course


Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Spring 2017 Massive Open Online Courses Awardees

Protecting Children in Humanitarian Settings
Mailman School of Public Health

​Neil Boothby
Allan Rosenfield Professor of Forced Migration and Health

​Mark Canavera
Associate Director of Strategy & Practice

​Hanna-Tina Fischer
Associate in Population and Family Health

Introduction to Computer Vision
Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science


​Shree Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science

An Introduction to Causal Inference
Course 1 & Course 2

Arts and Sciences


​Michael Sobel, Professor of Statistics

Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection
ICAP, Mailman School of Public Health


​Susan Michaels-Strasser, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Indian & Tibetan River of Buddhism
Department of Religion, Arts and Sciences


​Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies

Spring 2016 Massive Open Online Courses Awardees

Corporate Finance
Columbia Business School


​Daniel Wolfenzon, Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics

Crisis Resource Management
Columbia University Medical Center

Vivek Moitra
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

Jessica Leia Spellman
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

​David Oren Kessler
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

From Soldier to Student: Skills for a Successful Transition to College
School of General Studies 

Robert J. Jenkins, Senior Assistant Dean of Students

Global Muckraking: Media and Social Change
School of International and Public Affairs

Anya Schiffrin, Lecturer in Discipline

The Great Novels 
Arts and Sciences

Sharon Marcus
Orlando Harriman Professor of English, Dean for Humanities

Nicholas Dames
Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities

History of Music Production Techniques 
Arts and Sciences 


Terence Pender, Assistant Director, Computer Music Center

Pediatric HIV E-Learning for Nurses and Midwives in sub-Saharan Africa 
​ICAP, Mailman School of Public Health


​Susan Michaels-Strasser, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology