Nancy Zingrone
Parapsychology and Anomalistic Psychology: Research and Education
A month-long course featuring researchers, students and educators in these interesting fields
16 Weeks
Course Start Date: 5 Jan 2015
tutorials
live classes
tests
assignment
In January of 2015, an international group of lecturers will come together to talk about their own research into the many topics of scientific parapsychology from research into such phenomena as extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, precognition experiences, remote viewing, psychosocial and psychological studies of the people who report experiences, clinical issues surrounding the experiences, exceptional experiences in general, the transpersonal aspect of psychic functioning, and skepticism about the phenomena and the field.
Also on hand will be individuals who can talk about the academic programs in their own universities that lead to academic credit in the topic, and to conducting research for accredited masters and doctoral theses. The course will contain material for further learning including tutorials, videos, book lists, and opportunities for discussion with colleagues.
Attendees may earn a certificate by completing one of the following tasks:
- by writing reflections on 10 of the 30 presentations and turning it to upload to the course schedule, or
- by completing a project in the Virtual World Second LIfe (we'll teach you how to set up an account, and mentor you through the Second Life process if you need it), or
- by successfully completing four of the quizzes, or
- by filming a presentation to share with other attendees and/or on the Parapsychology Online YouTube channel.
More information will be added to the Parapsychology and Anomalistic Psychology MOOC over the next couple of months. Opening ceremonies will take place in the first week of January 2015.
Organized by Nancy L.. Zingrone PhD and Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, and hosted by Nancy on her WizIQ teacher's account.
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Free to all participants.
Language of instruction: English
- Lectures by an international group of scientists and educators
- Focus on the scientific study of seemingly psychic phenomena
- Topics include: Extrasensory perception, Remote Viewing, Psychokinesis
- Topics also include: Precognition, Experiments, Case Studies, Surveys
- Information on University-Based Education in the Field
These days, my husband Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado and I (Dr. Nancy L. Zingrone) are using my Teaching Account on WizIQ.com to organize a series of conferences and courses on scientific parapsychology and psychology. For example, on November 1st and 2nd, 2014, we hosted the Parapsychology and Psychology: Research and Theory Online Conference.
In January of 2015 we are hosting the first ever Parapsychology and Anomalistic Psychology: Research and Education MOOC on WizIQ.com. We are currently reaching out to our colleagues and friends in psychology, scientific parapsychology and anomalistic psychology to come to the MOOC and present their research and their own educational activities.
These are our biographies:
Carlos S. Alvarado has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Rhine Research Center and Assistant Professor of Research at the Division of Perceptual Studies of the University of Virginia. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, and a two-time past President of the Parapsychological Association. Alvarado’s work has centered on survey research on out-of-body experiences and other psychic experiences, and the history of psychical research. He is the recipient of the 2010 Parapsychological Association’s Outstanding Contribution Award and was the Program Chair for the Association’s 2001 and 2012 conventions. Alvarado has authored over 275 papers published in history, psychology, psychiatry, and parapsychology journals, and is the author of Getting Started in Parapsychology (New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 2002) and one of the editors of Research in Parapsychology 1993 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998). He also writes the blog: Parapsychology: News, History and Research.
Nancy L. Zingrone obtained a Ph.D. in psychology (University of Edinburgh), doctoral candidacy in history (Duke University), an M.S.Ed. in higher education with a teaching specialty in psychology (Northern Illinois University), and a B.A. in psychology (Mundelein College). She has conducted experimental, historical and survey research mainly on the psychological characteristics of psychic experiencers. Her research has been published in such journals as the Australian Journal for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, History of Psychiatry, Imagination, Cognition and Personality, the Journal of Near-Death Studies, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, and the Journal of Scientific Exploration as well as in the parapsychological publications European Journal of Parapsychology, the Journal of Parapsychology, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, and the Revista Argentina de Psicología Paranormal.She has been a teacher and learner on WizIQ.com since 2009, a course designer and instructor for the Rhine Education Center (since April 2013), the manager of The AZIRE Moodle (since January 2013), an online adult education teaching tplatform on which a half dozen colleagues teach a variety of courses, as well as the curator of the AZIRE Learning Center in the virtual world Second Life (since September of 2009), and the manager of the Chilbo Education Village on the Madhupak sim also in Second Life. Visit her YouTube Channels: Teaching and Learning Online, and Parapsychology Online.
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