{"id":15455,"date":"2019-07-16T13:17:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=15455"},"modified":"2023-06-08T21:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:25:29","slug":"online-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/news\/2019\/07\/16\/online-history","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wood takes history into the future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/online-history.jpg\" alt=\"online history\" class=\"wp-image-24468\"><\/figure>\n\n<p>IAS professor emeritus and UW Bothell founding faculty member <a href=\"\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/alan-wood\">Alan Wood<\/a> is turning two of his classes, Problems in World History to 1500 and Problems in World History after 1500, into fully online courses. After nearly 30 years of lecturing in classrooms, Wood is embracing new technologies because he &ldquo;feels a sense of urgency&rdquo; to bring these topics to students. &ldquo;As a species, humans are now facing challenges that for the first time are fully global in their scale and scope,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAS professor emeritus and UW Bothell founding faculty member <a href=\"\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/alan-wood\">Alan Wood<\/a> is turning two of his classes, <em>Problems in World History to 1500<\/em> and <em>Problems in World History after 1500<\/em>, into fully online courses. 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