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BrownX offers the opportunity to showcase Brown’s depth, breadth, and diversity in research, teaching, and learning with students around the globe.

Announced in May 2017, BrownX is an exciting new University initiative between Brown University and edX.org, a non-profit educational consortium founded by MIT and Harvard in 2011. Brown joins 100+ partners on the edX platform, where the world’s leading universities, nonprofits, and other institutions reach across geographic boundaries to engage eager students.

Introduction to Engineering and Design 19/11/2018

See if engineering is the right career fit— discover BrownX’s newest free online course, Introduction to Engineering and Design, today!

Introduction to Engineering and Design Learn about the primary fields of engineering and explore the engineering design process, from conceptual design and optimal choice evaluation to prototyping and project construction.

Introduction to Engineering and Design 14/11/2018

Interested in learning more about the field of engineering? Discover BrownX’s newest free online course, Introduction to Engineering and Design!

Introduction to Engineering and Design Learn about the primary fields of engineering and explore the engineering design process, from conceptual design and optimal choice evaluation to prototyping and project construction.

Introduction to Engineering and Design 05/11/2018

Join us to learn about the primary fields of engineering and explore the engineering design process, from conceptual design and optimal choice evaluation to prototyping and project construction.

Register today for this free, self-paced course!

Introduction to Engineering and Design Learn about the primary fields of engineering and explore the engineering design process, from conceptual design and optimal choice evaluation to prototyping and project construction.

Introduction to Engineering and Design 05/11/2018

Enroll today! Self-paced course starts on November 6!

Introduction to Engineering and Design Learn about the primary fields of engineering and explore the engineering design process, from conceptual design and optimal choice evaluation to prototyping and project construction.

Introduction to Engineering and Design 30/10/2018

Learn about the primary fields of engineering & explore the engineering design process—from conceptual design to prototyping. Sign up for this free online course!

Introduction to Engineering and Design Learn about the primary fields of engineering and explore the engineering design process, from conceptual design and optimal choice evaluation to prototyping and project construction.

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories 27/08/2018

In this edX course we’ll focus on stories - challenging stories, in particular. We’ll discuss why healthcare providers must think more creatively in a field that prides itself on its grounding in scientific evidence. Course begins September 4th.

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories Learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices.

21/08/2018

Join us for a three-week online course to learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices. Register: https://bit.ly/2v8FgMK

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories 20/08/2018

Learn how to embrace uncertainty and mystery in medicine as opportunities for deeper inquiry. Course starts September 4th.

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories Learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices.

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories 16/08/2018

In order to treat patients effectively, we must do everything in our power to ensure that the story we are hearing is the one our patients are trying to tell.

Join use to learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices. Course starts on September 4, 2018.

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories Learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices.

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories 09/08/2018

Making the right diagnosis is critically important, but so is learning how to ask the right questions and developing comfort with uncertainty. Join us to learn tools for gaining traction in difficult stories and responding to them.

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories Learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices.

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories 08/08/2018

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories Learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices.

02/08/2018

Learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices. Register: https://bit.ly/2v8FgMK

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories 31/07/2018

New course!

Join us to learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices.

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories Learn how healthcare providers can better understand and care for patients by applying creativity and storytelling to their clinical practices.

107 free online courses from the best colleges in the US — including Princeton, Harvard, and Yale 23/04/2018

3 BrownX courses, "Artful Medicine: Art's Power to Enrich Patient Care," "The Ethics of Memory" and "Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature," included in list of free online courses from Business Insider

107 free online courses from the best colleges in the US — including Princeton, Harvard, and Yale A decade ago, you wouldn't have been able to easily take classes from these top-ranked schools. Now, you can — for much less than the cost of a degree.

Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature 05/02/2018

There is still time to register! "Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature" officially starts tomorrow. Join us as we consider what it means to be human.

Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature Consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction.

Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature | BrownX on edX 31/01/2018

Do you love reading literature whose plot, characters, or themes challenge you to empathize with formerly unknown or unimagined beings or feelings?

Join us to consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction. Course begins February 6th. Register: http://bit.ly/2CXmn5J

Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature | BrownX on edX Enroll now! Consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction. Can you be c...

Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature 30/01/2018

Orientation for "Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature" begins today. The course officially starts February 6th. Register Now!

Explore some especially remarkable ways particular works of literature have tried to reckon with the joys, frustrations, complexities, contradictions, and conundrums of just what it means to be human.

Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature Consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction.

25/01/2018

We asked Professor Jim Egan if he'd pass as a human.

Join us for a free 3 week course where we consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction. Course orientation begins on January 30th! Register: http://bit.ly/2CXmn5J

24/01/2018

Why gamification for this course?

Join us for a free 3-week course where we will consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction. Course starts on January 30th! Register: http://bit.ly/2CXmn5J

23/01/2018

Find out what literature inspires Professor Jim Egan.

Join us for a free 3-week course where we will consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction. Register: http://bit.ly/2CXmn5J

19/01/2018

Do you love reading literature whose plot, characters, or themes challenge you to empathize with formerly unknown or unimagined beings or feelings?

Join us for a free 3 week course where we consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction.

Register: https://www.edx.org/course/fantastic-places-unhuman-humans-exploring-humanity-through-literature

17/01/2018

Join us for a free 3-week course where we will consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction. Register: http://bit.ly/2CXmn5J

09/01/2018

Consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction. Course begins January 30th. Register: http://bit.ly/2CXmn5J

08/01/2018

Can you be confident that the person sitting next to you is really a human rather than some remarkable replica conjured up by a mad scientist or, perhaps, an alien from another planet? Join us on our quest to find out. Enrollment begins tomorrow.

03/01/2018

What does it mean to be human? Join us on our quest to find out. Enrollment begins in 6 days. Adventure awaits!

02/01/2018

Stay tuned. A new course is coming.

20/06/2017

Learn how our personal and collective memories evolve over time, and why memory and memorializing matter. Enroll in The Ethics of Memory on edX: https://www.edx.org/course/ethics-memory-brownx-engl101x

16/06/2017

Join us in exploring elements of professionalism and humanism, why they are critical to patient care, and how they are threatened by technology that increasingly distances caregivers from patients. Register for this free edX course: https://www.edx.org/course/artful-medicine-arts-power-enrich-brownx-med101x #!

Videos (show all)

Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories
Beyond Medical Histories: Gaining Insight from Patient Stories
Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature
Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature
Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature
Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature
Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature
The Ethics of Memory
Artful Medicine: Art’s Power to Enrich Patient Care