The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is offering a five-week course in the basics of data-driven journalism, open to anyone in the world. A team of instructors will teach this massive open online course (MOOC), which runs Aug. 12 to Sep. 16 and can accommodate thousands of students.

Each week a different instructor will lead the class:

1. Intro to data journalism. Amy Schmitz Weiss, San Diego State University
2. Where to find data and the stories. Lise Olsen, Houston Chronicle
3. How to interview the data. Derek Willis, The New York Times
4. How to bring data to life, part 1. Jeremy Bowers, National Public Radio
5. How to bring data to life, part 2. Sisi Wei, ProPublica

How this MOOC works: This course will include videos, tutorials, reading materials, exercises and quizzes. Although it's divided into weekly modules, the course will be completely asynchronous (no live lectures or real-time interaction). However, each weekly module will have deadlines for submitting quizzes and participating in forums.

Anyone in the world with an internet connection can take this course; there is no application or selection process. Enrollees will have immediate access to the syllabus, introductory information and a video from the instructor explaining how the MOOC will work.

This is a free course -- but participants have the option of paying $30 to receive a PDF certificate (awarded only to students who actively participate in the course and who comply with most course requirements).

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This is the Knight Center's first MOOC that will be taught in English. It follows their highly popular Spanish-language MOOC, Introduction to Data Journalism, which concluded in June and attracted nearly 4,000 participants from 62 countries.