Self-study material - Control and Decision making

Below we provide a number of pages with material (videos, paper, pages, etc) for each topic. Each topic also specifies how this part of the material is examined. 

We expect you to go through the material that we provide. Some of the material might be known to you already and then this will go very fast. One objective is for you to teach others about the topics you know well so you can not just skip the material completely as they will ask starting from the material. For some topics you might need more time.

Use the examination tasks to test that you have acquired the knowledge (after going through the material). These tasks vary in form. While it is obviously possible to look at the assignment first and try to minimize the learning to no more than what is needed for the assignment in question, we expect you to be mature and responsible enough to ensure that you acquire the knowledge conveyed by the preparatory material. Some of you probably already know some of the material and then it will be easy for you. Some of the assignments will require that you work a bit more hands on with the material.

In the table below we provide an estimate for a target time for the different parts. This is obviously very hard to estimate given how different your backgrounds are. If you end up spending much time on a topic, you should probably ask for support. Use the forum to ask questions, talk to your colleagues and use the local sessions. When you have spent significantly more effective time than what is estimated below, say double, we suggest that you stop and make sure to ask for help to not spend too much time. The time is defined based on the mandatory part of the material.

In the fourth column we link to the discussion forum we would like you to use if you have questions so that everyone can see the answer and hopefully you can supply some of the answers to other people's questions as well.

In the last column we have links to pages that you can edit and share your knowledge in the corresponding area. Maybe you have some cool examples you would like others to test? Some videos that they must see? 

We want you to work in study groups whenever possible so that you practice communicating with others, form the network within WASP and help each other. Ideally these study groups are interdisciplinary. 

The examination assignments should be completed individually (but again we encourage you to co-operate).

Material marked in red in the pages linked to below is optional as in module 1.

Some of the Examination is not published yet.