| "Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology" |
| "Why has Star Trek , which began as a failed network series, become so influential? Instead of fading away, the Star Trek universe now encompasses feature films, additional television series, and a universe of fan conventions and memorabilia. What about the shows and movies resonate with so many people? The powerful vision of futuristic space exploration drew on real history and contemporary issues to enhance its storytelling. Star Trek inspired audiences to ask fundamental questions about who they are and how they relate to the world around them. When you enroll in this course, you will examine how Star Trek ’s live action television shows and motion pictures affected audiences around the world. With your hosts, Margaret Weitekamp and Scott Mantz, you will discover the connections between Star Trek and history, culture, technology and society. You will hear from experts, watch clips from the shows and films, debate with fellow fans.and explore your own perspectives on and understanding of Star Trek 's lasting impact. Through critical analysis and object exploration, you will examine how Star Trek tackled controversial topics, such as race, gender, sexuality, and ethics. Then, the mission is yours. Join the community to engage in civil discourse. Use evidence to understand how Star Trek shaped and still influences our technology and society. This course is offered under license by CBS Consumer Products."
Price: 40.00 |
| "Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology II" |
| "Why has Star Trek , which began as a failed network series, become so influential? Instead of fading away, the Star Trek universe now encompasses feature films, additional television series, and a universe of fan conventions and memorabilia. What about the shows and movies resonate with so many people? The powerful vision of futuristic space exploration drew on real history and contemporary issues to enhance its storytelling. Star Trek inspired audiences to ask fundamental questions about who they are and how they relate to the world around them. When you enroll in this course, you will examine how Star Trek ’s live action television shows and motion pictures affected audiences around the world. With your hosts, Margaret Weitekamp and Scott Mantz, you will discover the connections between Star Trek and history, culture, technology and society. You will hear from experts, watch clips from the shows and films, debate with fellow fans. and explore your own perspectives on and understanding of Star Trek 's lasting impact. Through critical analysis and object exploration, you will examine how Star Trek tackled controversial topics, such as race, gender, sexuality, and ethics. Then, the mission is yours. Join the community to engage in civil discourse. Use evidence to understand how Star Trek shaped and still influences our technology and society. This course is offered under license by CBS Consumer Products."
Price: 40.00 |
| "Teaching Historical Inquiry with Objects" |
| "How can you help your students to see history as a living, breathing record of the past? How can you motivate students to ask probing questions and seek complex answers? How can you bridge their historical knowledge with a lifelong commitment to civic action? With this self-paced course, middle and high school teachers will find new ways to engage students in and out of the classroom. Co-taught by Dr. Kathy Swan, Professor of Education at the University of Kentucky, and Naomi Coquillon, Manager of Youth and Teacher Programs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, this self-paced course will offer teachers useful and readily applicable strategies and tactics to incorporate inquiry-based learning methods into their existing history lessons. The self-paced course brings together the new College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies with the Smithsonian’s hands-on, museum-based educational techniques that bring historical artifacts to life for millions of visitors each year. Through explanation, demonstration, and dynamic examples, the course offers teachers practical ideas for how to entice students to craft complex and incisive questions; think critically about primary and secondary historical sources; form and support their opinions with evidence; and communicate their conclusions in ways that will prepare them to be engaged citizens of the world. Demonstrations will feature the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s exhibitions and vast collection of historical artifacts and will offer ideas and resources to help teachers everywhere incorporate object- and inquiry-based teaching techniques and Smithsonian online resources into their own classrooms."
Price: 50.00 |
| "The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture" |
| "Join the Smithsonian, and comic book industry legend, the late Stan Lee, in this self-paced course to explore the history of the comic book and the rise of superheroes. The ancient gods of Egyptian, Greek and Roman myths still exist, but today, they have superpowers, human foibles and secret identities. They come from comic books and graphic novels, and have taken over pop culture on the stage, screen, video games, and animation. From Superman® and Spider-Man®, to The Avengers® and The Hulk® and beyond, who are these heroes? And, how have they evolved from folklore and myth, across all cultures and religions? Learn from Smithsonian and industry experts including: The late Stan Lee, who was one of the creators of the modern superhero template. His early comics featuring Spider-Man, Iron Man®, The Hulk, Thor®, and The Avengers led Marvel to success. He continues to reinvent himself to create modern global superheroes and appear in cameos in superhero films and TV, such as Avengers: Age of Ultron. Michael Uslan, executive producer of top grossing, award winning movies, including The Dark Knight series, Lego® Movie, the animated Batman films and Batman® VS Superman. In this self-paced course, we explore the following questions: Why did superheroes first arise in 1938 and experience what we refer to as their “Golden Age” during World War II? Why did the superhero genre ebb and flow in popularity over the decades? How have comic books, published weekly since the mid-1930’s, mirrored a changing American society, reflecting our mores, slang, fads, biases and prejudices? Why was the comic book industry nearly shut down in the McCarthy Era of the 1950’s? How did our superheroes become super-villains in the eyes of the government, clergy, educators, and parents of the mid-20th Century? When and how did comic books become acceptable again, and eventually become valid teaching tools in universities and schools? When and how did comic book artwork become accepted as a true American art form as indigenous to this country as jazz? Finally, when and how did comic books become “cool” and the basis for blockbuster movies, hit TV series, top-selling video games, and acclaimed animation, while also impacting fashion and style- and even the moral and ethical codes of children- around the globe? The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is excited to offer the opportunity to go into the collection and see why superheroes are a dominant cultural force in today’s world. As you learn about how cultural myths, world events, and personal experiences shaped the first superheroes, you will apply these frameworks to create your own superhero– or you can choose to do a deeper analysis on existing comic book heroes. This original project is required for certification and anything created by you as part of this self-paced course is the intellectual property of you and you alone. At last, fans, students and seekers of knowledge have the opportunity to enroll in the ultimate comic book course."
Price: 50.00 |
| "རིག་གནས་བསྡུ་འཇུག་དང་ཉར་ཚགས་བྱེད་པའི་ཐབས་ལམ་མདོར་བསྡུས། | Methods and Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Tibetan Culture" |
| "སློབ་ཚན་འདི་དག་གིས་ཉམས་ཞུགས་པ་རྣམས་ལ་མདོ་དབུས་ཁམས་གསུམ་གྱི་མི་སྡེ་ཁག་གིས་ལག་ལེན་དུ་བྱེད་བཞིན་པའི་རིག་གནས་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་དག་བསྡུ་འཇོག་དང་ཉར་ཚགས་བྱེད་པའི་སྐོར་ལ་ཁ་ཐོག་ལག་བཞག་གི་ལམ་སྟོན་བྱེད་ཐུབ།རིག་གནས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་མཁན་དང་གློག་བརྙན་བཟོ་མཁན་དག་གིས་ཕྱོགས་གཉིས་ནས་ཉམས་ཞུགས་པ་རྣམས་ལ་མཚམས་སྦྱོར་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ཡིན།གཅིག།ཡུལ་དངོས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ཅི་ལྟར་བྱེད་པ་དང་།ཁྱིམ་མི་དང་མི་སྡེ་་ཞིག་གི་མི་སྣ་ཁ་ཤས་ལ་བཅར་འདྲི་ཐོ་འགོད་ཅི་ལྟར་བྱེད་པའིསྐོར།གཉིས།བསྡུ་ལེན་བྱས་པའི་རྒྱུ་ཆ་དག་ཅི་ལྟར་ཉར་ཚགས།གཅེས་ཉར་དང་དཀར་ཆགས་ཏུ་འགོད་པའི་སྐོར། རིག་གནས་བསྡུ་འཇུག་བྱས་པ་བརྒྱུད་ནས་ང་ཚོའི་འདས་ཟིན་པ་ལ་ཤེས་རྟོགས་བྱུང་ཐུབ་པ་མ་ཟད།ད་ལྟ་དངོས་ཡོད་ཀྱི་ཉིན་རེའི་འཚོ་བའི་རིག་གནས་སྟེ།བཟའ་བཏུང་།དུས་སྟོན་མཛད་སྒོ།ལག་བཟོ།རོལ་མོ།ལས་འཛིན་དང་ལག་རྩལ་གྱི་སྐོར་སོགས་གསར་རྙེད་དང་ཤེས་རྟོགས་བྱུང་སྲིད།དེ་མ་ཟད་རྒྱུ་ཆ་འདི་དག་གིས་མི་སྡེ་ཞིག་གི་འཚོ་བ་དང་དེའི་རིན་ཐང་ཤུགས་ཆེན་པོར་མཚོན་ཐུབ། སློབ་ཚན་ཚང་མ་བོད་ཡིག་བོད་སྐད་ནས་ཡིན་ལ།དཔེ་དེབ་ནི་ཨ་རིའི་སི་མེ་ཟོ་ཉན་གྱི་དམངས་སྲོལ་དང་ངག་བརྒྱུད་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀྱི་བཅར་འདྲིའི་སྣེ་ཤན་དེབ་ཆུང་ཞེས་པ་བོད་ཡིག་ཏུ་བསྒྱུར་བ་གཞིར་བཞག་བྱས་ཡོད།སློབ་ཚན་འདི་དག་གིས་ལྟོས་བཅོས་ལས་གྲངས་ཀ་ཉུང་ཉུང་ཡིན་པའི་བོད་ཀྱི་དེང་རབས་ངག་བརྒྱུད་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཐོ་འགོད་དང་ཉར་ཚགས་བྱས་ཟིན་པའི་རྒྱུ་ཆའི་སྟེང་ཁ་སྣོན་བྱེད་མཁན་གྱི་ངག་བརྒྱུད་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་མཁན་མང་པོ་ཞིག་གྲ་སྒྲིག་དང་གསོ་སྐྱོང་བྱེད་ཐུབ་ལ།ངག་བརྒྱུད་ལོ་རྒྱུས་འདི་དག་གིས་མདོ་དབུས་ཁམས་གསུམ་གྱི་མི་དམངས་ཀྱི་འཚོ་བ་ཅུང་ཆ་ཚང་ཞིག་མཚོན་ཐུབ་པའི་རྒྱུ་ཆ་མཁོ་འདོན་བྱེད་ཐུབ། This course offers participants a practical guide for documenting, preserving, and archiving the traditions and cultural practices of communities on the Tibetan Plateau. Cultural researchers and filmmakers will share their methods for conducting fieldwork and recording interviews with family members and community figures, and preserving, cataloging, and archiving these materials for future generations. By documenting culture, we discover and learn not only the past, but also the vast reservoir of living culture—the foodways, celebrations, crafts, music, occupations, and skills—that are part of daily experience. These materials powerfully express community life and values. They anchor us in a larger whole, connect us to the past, ground us firmly in the present, and give us an undeniable sense of identity, belonging, and purpose. This course is conducted entirely in Tibetan with the Tibetan translation of the Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interview Guide as its text. It will prepare researchers to add to the relatively limited number of recorded and achieved contemporary Tibetan oral histories, which create a more holistic image of life on the Tibetan Plateau and beyond."
Price: 5.00 |
| "Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology III" |
| "Why has Star Trek , which began as a failed network series, become so influential? Instead of fading away, the Star Trek universe now encompasses feature films, additional television series, and a universe of fan conventions and memorabilia. What about the shows and movies resonate with so many people? The powerful vision of futuristic space exploration drew on real history and contemporary issues to enhance its storytelling. Star Trek inspired audiences to ask fundamental questions about who they are and how they relate to the world around them. When you enroll in this course, you will examine how Star Trek ’s live action television shows and motion pictures affected audiences around the world. With your hosts, Margaret Weitekamp and Scott Mantz, you will discover the connections between Star Trek and history, culture, technology and society. You will hear from experts, watch clips from the shows and films, debate with fellow fans. and explore your own perspectives on and understanding of Star Trek 's lasting impact. Through critical analysis and object exploration, you will examine how Star Trek tackled controversial topics, such as race, gender, sexuality, and ethics. Then, the mission is yours. Join the community to engage in civil discourse. Use evidence to understand how Star Trek shaped and still influences our technology and society. This course is offered under license by CBS Consumer Products."
Price: 40.00 |
| "Customer Relationship Management" |
| "Customer Relationship Management, also known as CRM, helps businesses successfully implement strategies, practices and technolgies aimed at winning and retaining customers profitably. The objective of this business and management course is to equip you with a sound foundation of CRM concepts and best practices so you can implement CRM practices successfully for long-term profitability. Businesses aim to win and keep customers. Their competitors also seek to do the same. Even the most successful firms, with excellent marketing programs for attracting customers, have trouble with customer retention. In this course, you will learn how to shift from a short-term customer transaction based mode of operation to a long-term relationship mode and understand the benefits of having strong customer relations. Topics covered include: Customer retention Customer centricity Customer lifetime value Customer value management"
Price: 50.00 |
| "Comparative Democratic Development Part II: Structuring Democracy" |
| "The first part of this course explored the definition and elements of liberal democracy and the social, economic, and cultural conditions for sustaining. It also looked at the dynamics of democracy, taking a more actor-centered approach to examine the drivers of democratic transitions and breakdowns. This second and final part of the course takes a more political approach, asking two questions. First, how do the institutions of liberal democracy vary in design, and what institutional choices seem to offer the best prospects for sustaining liberal democracy? What tensions and tradeoffs must be navigated in designing or reforming democratic institutions? Second, is it possible for external actors to assist in the development and defense of democracy? What types of international policies and practices have been most successful in supporting democracy from abroad, and how can democracy be promoted more effectively?"
Price: 50.00 |
| "Pathology|病理学" |
| "Pathology is a basic medical discipline that explores diseases mainly from the perspective of morphology. By observing and studying the morphological changes of the diseased body, combined with changes in function and metabolism, it clarifies the basic laws of the occurrence and development of diseases and reveals the nature of diseases. Pathology is known as a doctor of doctors. From the inflammation of tissues to the cancer which makes people feel scared and cardiovascular diseases that increase year by year, from the damage and repair of cells to the diseases of human organs and systems, this course introduces the causes and development rules of many diseases in detail which tells you the nature of the disease. This course is taught by 6 teachers and experts from Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Peking University First Hospital and Chinese PLA General Hospital who have rich basic medical, clinical medicine and teaching experience. It will bring you not only the most cutting-edge and professional but also easy to understand gluttonous feast of pathological knowledge."
Price: 49.00 |
| "Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching" |
| "Educators have an ever-increasing stream of data at their fingertips, but knowing how to use this data to improve learning and teaching — how to make it less overwhelming, more useful, and part of an effective collaborative process — can be challenging. Based on the book Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, this course describes a clear, 8-step process for using a wide range of data sources to improve instruction. You will see what this disciplined way of working with colleagues can look and feel like in a school setting. You will also have the opportunity to share insights and experiences about school improvement with educators from around the world. Introduction to Data Wise is open to all but is especially valuable for teachers and school and district leaders, as well as policymakers, and educational entrepreneurs who are dedicated to improving outcomes for students. There are several ways you could take this course: Participate on your own. Enroll with a few colleagues as part of a study group. Formally integrate it into professional development in your workplace. It is a self-paced course. You can go through the essential materials in a day or take several weeks to allow for reflection. There will be one month of active course facilitation, which will include discussion board moderation, office hours, and other live events. This course provides an introduction to a rich portfolio of books, resources, training, and support developed by the Data Wise Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The Data Wise Project works in partnership with teachers and school and system leaders to develop and field-test resources that support collaborative school improvement. We encourage you to explore these resources as you chart a course for using data to improve learning and teaching for all students."
Price: 70.00 |
| "Information Technology Foundations" |
| "Information technology (IT) can be viewed as a system, a combination of independent parts all working together to accomplish a certain goal. Systems are everywhere. For example, the respiratory, circulatory, nervous, and other subsystems of the body work together towards the common goal of keeping humans alive. IT is similar in that it consists of various subsystems all working towards a common goal. Information Technology Foundations will examine how the system called IT helps an organization advance its business goals and vision, resulting in improved growth, profits, and productivity. The course will explore the different components of IT and how they work together as a system to support the different aspects of an organization. Specifically, the course will explore different categories of software such as operating systems, programming, and databases. The hardware components that will be examined are the structure of computers and their peripherals. The role of people will be an important focus of the course, describing which roles are necessary for the IT system to function efficiently and effectively. This focus includes the various administrative roles, the methodologies used by people tasked with developing new systems, and the ethical issues that must be considered by individuals involved with IT. In IT, as with many other systems, the independent parts must be integrated together to reach the common goal. This integration is accomplished by networking, which encompasses the core components of hardware, software, and users. IT supports and improves many aspects of an organization, including communication (both internal and external), resource sharing, cross-department integration, information management, security of organization and employee information, and organization adherence to ethical practices."
Price: 399.00 |
| "Network and Security Foundations" |
| "As computer systems become smaller, cheaper, and more readily accessible, it seems everyone is connected at the touch of a button. Organizations struggle to remain efficient as they manage growing numbers of single-user computer systems. These systems require interconnectivity to exchange data, share resources, and access more powerful computers for tasks too complicated for local computers to process. All of these activities require computing devices to access multiple networks. This course introduces networks such as the local area network (LAN), the enterprise network, the campus area network (CAN), the metropolitan area network (MAN), metro Ethernet, the personal area network (PAN), the virtual private network (VPN), and the wide area network (WAN). The course discusses the essentials for implementing modern computer networks. Each lesson goes through the various networking technologies. The course introduces the concepts and practices associated with network security vulnerabilities, threats, risk mitigation, and the policies and procedures associated with security management."
Price: 549.00 |
| "Scripting and Programming Foundations" |
| "Computer programs are abundant in many people's lives today, carrying out applications on smartphones, tablets, and laptops, powering businesses, helping cars drive and planes fly, and much more. The course introduces computational thinking and algorithms, a sequence of instructions that solves a problem. Computational or mathematical thinking became increasingly important throughout the industrial age to enable people to successfully live and work. In the information age, computational thinking and algorithms will continue to be increasingly critical for work and everyday life. Beyond business and personal computing devices such as PCs, tablets, and smartphones, embedded computers exist invisibly in nearly anything electrical today (e.g., TVs, cars, printers, thermostats, satellites, etc.) and require scripting and programming of instructions to perform efficiently."
Price: 549.00 |
| "Backyard Meteorology: The Science of Weather" |
| "The weather forecasts we see every day are based on an army of meteorological sensing networks and intensive computer modeling. Before the rise of these technologies, predictions were made by methods like discerning cloud formations and wind directions. This course will explore the science behind weather systems by teaching the observational skills needed to make a forecast without using instruments or computer models. We'll discuss the physical processes driving weather and the global forces that shape global climate systems. Finally, we will examine the limits of prediction in both human observations and computer models. Can the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Take this course to find out!"
Price: 49.00 |
| "Power and Responsibility: Doing Philosophy with Superheroes" |
| "Pow! Bang! Kaboom! Superhero stories, first arriving on the scene in the late 1930s, are now among the most popular forms of global entertainment. The study of philosophy has been around for centuries. Power and Responsibility: Doing Philosophy with Superheroes, a SmithsonianX and Harvard Division of Continuing Education course, blends these superheroes narratives with the core areas of philosophy. SmithsonianX has partnered with the Harvard Division of Continuing Education to bring this course from the Harvard Extension School to edX. This introductory philosophy course, led by Professor Christopher Robichaud of the Harvard Kennedy School, offers an exciting lens to interpret key philosophical ideas — metaphysics and epistemology, social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, existentialism, moral relativism, and much more. From Superman's embrace of truth, justice, and the American way to Wonder Woman's efforts at promoting peace rather than war, from Spider-Man's personal struggles at balancing his romantic life with his crime fighting exploits to the X-Men's social struggles with combating prejudice, Power and Responsibility: Doing Philosophy with Superheroes will give you the chance to explore philosophy through the many superhero narratives via videos, readings, and a meaningful course community. We invite both those new to philosophy and philosophy lovers to join us on this journey!"
Price: 49.00 |
| "Co-Creating Sustainable Cities" |
| "Around the world, major challenges of our time such as population growth and climate change are being addressed in cities. Here, citizens play an important role amidst governments, companies, NGOs and researchers in creating social, technological and political innovations for achieving sustainability. Citizens can be co-creators of sustainable cities when they engage in city politics or in the design of the urban environment and its technologies and infrastructure. In addition, citizens influence and are influenced by the technologies and systems that they use every day. Sustainability is thus a result of the interplay between technology, policy and people’s daily lives. Understanding this interplay is essential for creating sustainable cities. In this MOOC, we zoom in on Amsterdam, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Nairobi, Kampala and Suzhou as living labs for exploring the dynamics of co-creation for sustainable cities worldwide. We will address topics such as participative democracy and legitimacy, ICTs and big data, infrastructure and technology, and SMART technologies in daily life. This global scope will be used to illustrate why specific forms of co-creation are preferred in specific urban contexts. Moreover, we will investigate and compare these cities on three themes that have a vast effect on city life: Water and waste Energy, air, food and mobility Green spaces and food This MOOC will teach you about the dynamics of co-creation and the key principles of citizens interacting with service providing companies, technology and infrastructure developers, policy makers and researchers. You will gain an understanding of major types of co-creation and their interdependency with their socio-technical and political contexts. You will become equipped to indicate how you can use co-creation to develop innovative technologies, policy arrangements or social practices for a sustainable city in your own community. You will demonstrate this by developing an action plan, research proposal or project idea. Basic knowledge of sustainability in urban settings, urban environmental technology and urban management is assumed."
Price: 49.00 |
| "Sustainable Urban Development" |
| "Did you know that cities take up less than 3% of the earth’s land surface, but more than 50% of the world’s population live in them? And, cities generate more than 70% of the global emissions? Large cities and their hinterlands (jointly called metropolitan regions ) greatly contribute to global urbanization and sustainability challenges, yet are also key to resolving these same challenges. If you are interested in the challenges of the 21st century metropolitan regions and how these can be solved from within the city and by its inhabitants, then this Sustainable Urban Development course is for you! There are no simple solutions to these grand challenges! Rather the challenges cities face today require a holistic, systemic and transdisciplinary approach that spans different fields of expertise and disciplines such as urban planning, urban design, urban engineering, systems analysis, policy making, social sciences and entrepreneurship. This MOOC is all about this integration of different fields of knowledge within the metropolitan context. The course is set up in a unique matrix format that lets you pursue your line of interest along a specific metropolitan challenge or a specific theme. Because we are all part of the challenges as well as the solutions, we encourage you to participate actively! You will have the opportunity to explore the living conditions in your own city and compare your living environment with that of the global community. You will discover possible solutions for your city’s challenges and what it takes to implement these solutions. Your participation will also contribute to wider research into metropolitan regions as complex systems. We invite you to take the first steps in understanding the principles that will be essential to transform metropolitan regions into just, prosperous and sustainable places to live in! This course forms a part of the educational programme of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and is developed by Wageningen UR and TU Delft, two of the founding universities of AMS Institute."
Price: 50.00 |
| "Paradox and Infinity" |
| "In Paradox and Infinity, you will be introduced to highlights from the intersection of philosophy and mathematics. The class is divided into three modules: Infinity: Learn about how some infinities are bigger than others, and explore the mind-boggling hierarchy of bigger and bigger infinities. Time Travel and Free Will : Learn about whether time travel is logically possible, and whether it is compatible with free will. Computability and Gödel's Theorem : Learn about how some mathematical functions are so complex, that no computer could possibly compute them. Use this result to prove Gödel's famous Incompleteness Theorem. Paradox and Infinity is a math-heavy class, which presupposes that you feel comfortable with college-level mathematics and that you are familiar with mathematical proofs. Learners who display exceptional performance in the class are eligible to win the MITx Philosophy Award. High School students are eligible for that award and, in addition, the MITx High School Philosophy award. Please see the FAQ section below for additional information. Note: learners who do well in Paradox will have typically taken at least a couple of college-level classes in mathematics or computer science. On the other hand, Paradox does not presuppose familiarity with any particular branch of mathematics or computer science. You just need to feel comfortable in a mathematical setting."
Price: 99.00 |
| "Predictive Analytics Final Project" |
| "The final project brings together the skills and knowledge acquired throughout the MicroMasters programme. You will draw on your knowledge of data analysis techniques to demonstrate your capacity to deal effectively with current job market needs. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate that you can crunch vast amounts of information to gain valuable insight, as well as use a range of approaches for extracting hidden information and building intelligence to assist with decision making. You will also have to independently apply the methods and tools used to address common practical issues faced by data analysts today, and consolidate your understanding of the most effective methodologies used through hands-on experience. This final project will prepare you for a step change in career or set you up to pursue further study. Please note, this course is only available to learners who have successfully completed all 4 MicroMasters courses on the verified track prior to undertaking this course: PA1.1x Introduction to Predictive Analytics using Python PA1.2x Successfully Evaluating Predictive Modelling PA1.3x Statistical Predictive Modelling and Applications PA1.4x Predictive Analytics using Machine Learning Learners who successfully complete this final course as part of the MicroMasters programme can apply to the on-campus Masters in Business Analytics at the University of Edinburgh. Successful completion of the MicroMasters programme does not guarantee acceptance to the Master's but, if accepted, the 30 credits awarded from the MicroMasters program will be recognised as credit obtained towards the 180 credits required for the full MSc. Visit the University of Edinburgh Business Analytics Entry Requirements page for more information."
Price: 450.00 |
| "Predictive Analytics using Machine Learning" |
| "This course will give you an overview of machine learning-based approaches for predictive modelling, including tree-based techniques, support vector machines, and neural networks using Python. These models form the basis of cutting-edge analytics tools that are used for image classification, text and sentiment analysis, and more. The course contains two case studies: forecasting customer behaviour after a marketing campaign, and flight delay and cancellation predictions. You will also learn: Sampling techniques such as bagging and boosting, which improve robustness and overall predictive power, as well as random forests Support vector machines by introducing you to the concept of optimising the separation between classes, before diving into support vector regression Neural networks; their topology, the concepts of weights, biases, and kernels, and optimisation techniques"
Price: 300.00 |
| "Statistical Predictive Modelling and Applications" |
| "In this course, you will learn three predictive modelling techniques - linear and logistic regression, and naive Bayes - and their applications in real-world scenarios. The first half of the course focuses on linear regression. This technique allows you to model a continuous outcome variable using both continuous and categorical predictors. This technique enables you to predict product sales based on several customer variables. In the second half of the course, you will learn about logistic regression, which is the counterpart of linear regression, when the response variable is categorical. You will also be introduced to naive Bayes; a very intuitive, probabilistic modeling technique."
Price: 300.00 |
| "Successfully Evaluating Predictive Modelling" |
| "A predictive exercise is not finished when a model is built. This course will equip you with essential skills for understanding performance evaluation metrics, using Python, to determine whether a model is performing adequately. Specifically, you will learn: Appropriate measures that are used to evaluate predictive models Procedures that are used to ensure that models do not cheat through, for example, overfitting or predicting incorrect distributions The ways that different model evaluation criteria illustrate how one model excels over another and how to identify when to use certain criteria This is the foundation of optimising successful predictive models. The concepts will be brought together in a comprehensive case study that deals with customer churn. You will be tasked with selecting suitable variables to predict whether a customer will leave a telecommunications provider by looking into their behaviour, creating various models, and benchmarking them by using the appropriate evaluation criteria."
Price: 300.00 |
| "Introduction to Predictive Analytics using Python" |
| "This course provides you with the skills to build a predictive model from the ground up, using Python. You will learn the full lifecycle of building the model. First, you'll understand the data discovery process and discover how to make connections between the predicting and predicted variables. You will also learn about key data transformation and preparation issues, which form the backdrop to an introduction in Python for data analytics. Through the analysis of real-life data, you will also develop an approach to implement simple linear and logistic regression models. These real-life examples include assessments on customer credit card behavior and case studies on sales volume forecasting. This course is the first in the MicroMasters program and will prepare you for modeling classification and regression problems with statistical and machine learning methods."
Price: 150.00 |
| "Drainage in Agriculture: controlling water and salt levels in the soil" |
| "The demand for safe and healthy food is rapidly increasing. The world population is growing and is projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050. How do we prepare for this and how are we going to be able to feed all these people? It is clear that the food production mainly has to come from improvements in agricultural water management on existing agricultural lands. Global climate change raises the pressure on supply and demand for water. Changing temperatures and long-term variation in annual precipitation amounts and regional distribution patterns require more ways to control water levels. In addition to the changing climate, cropping patterns are diversifying and field irrigation methods are changing. In light of all these changes in water demand, supply and use, the role of (subsurface) drainage has changed from a single-purpose measure for controlling waterlogging and/or salinity to an essential element of integrated water management under multiple land use scenarios. Join this course to advance your knowledge in drainage, drainage systems and solutions, and to help securing a sustainable food supply. In this course, you will work on different modules, apply the knowledge gained directly to your home country drainage situation. Furthermore, you will learn from other cases and learners worldwide, expanding your horizon on the global importance of drainage. Structure of the course The course consists of five modules. In Module 1, the need for drainage, the drainage methods and the design approaches for agricultural drainage systems are introduced. In Module 2 you will learn more about the hydrological principles related to drainage and drainage design equations. Module 3 discusses the general aspects of drainage of saline and sodic soils and Module 4 is an introduction to the implementation and operation & maintenance of drainage systems. Depending on your background and interest, you may decide by yourself in which sequence you do these three modules. But you should realize that in Module 5, all these different aspects of drainage are integrated to discuss the changing role of drainage in agricultural water management. For who This course was developed for professionals and students from various backgrounds, especially those who are interested in agricultural water management and want to broaden their understanding of drainage planning, design, and management, and drainage-related research and training. Although specifically watermanagers and waterengineers, agricultural engineers, irrigation professionals, hydrologists, and agricultural policy makers join this course, the course is open and accessible to everyone. Do not miss out on the opportunity to join this free online course and upgrade your knowledge on drainage for agricultural lands."
Price: 49.00 |
| "Drones for Agriculture: Prepare and Design Your Drone (UAV) Mission" |
| "We are all getting familiar with the image of a drone in the sky. Although flying a drone is fun, drones are not toys. More and more UAVs or drones are used by governments and companies to gain answers and insights on nature, agricultural and metropolitan challenges among other fields. For example, small Drones/UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Systems) are employed in agriculture for crop observation, crop monitoring, field analysis and map generation through aerial surveys. And with the available software and 'mission planning tools' market growing, so is the demand for knowledge and understanding about its usage and limitations. Our top professors of the 'Information Technology Group' and the 'Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing group' of Wageningen University & Research will teach you whether it makes sense to use drones for your application, challenge or question. You will learn how to plan an end-to-end mission (from image acquisition to data visualization) for your specific drone application and how to execute a drone mission safely. Afther finishing this online course you will have gained full understanding of the aerial mapping workflow and how to implement it in a programmable small drone. You will know which steps you need to take to gain the valuable insights you are looking for. Do I need a drone to complete this course? No! You do not need a drone to complete this course. For all the assignments and exercises we will provide the necessary material (in case it is needed). But, we expect to pick your curiosity with this course and hopefully nudge you into buying one and joining the community ;). For who Although the course is initially made for agriculture technicians, researchers or graduate students from multidisciplinary technical fields, everyone that aims to learn how to use an off-the-shelf small drone for generating a high-resolution image from a field, or has a general high interest in drones, is very welcome."
Price: 49.00 |
| "Sustainable Food Security: The value of systems thinking" |
| "Systems thinking and environmental sustainability: solve the Rubik 's cube Have you ever considered how many aspects of food production affect the natural environment? Every aspect needs to be considered in attaining the future goal to produce enough food for the growing population while at the same time preserving our planet. It's as difficult as solving a Rubik's cube; changing one aspect may affect the environment in a major way. Systems theory, or systems thinking, is a way of understanding and working with the complexity of sustainable food production systems, which requires training in different disciplines and an approach that can address this complexity. This environmental studies course enables participants to apply the principles of a systems approach to food production with a focus on environmental sustainability. The professors at Wageningen University The University of Wageningen offers an excellent combination of conducting research worldwide and educating in the area of 'healthy food and living environment'. For each course, professors from specific fields of expertise are eager to teach and share the University's mission: ""Explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life"". This is why you should sign up Sign up as a student if you want to acquire knowledge about environmental sustainability and the way systems thinking helps in decision-making in the complexity of food production. After successful completion of both practice and graded assignments related to this course, you will: Understand the complexity and diversity of food production systems Understand the principles of system analysis and apply it to environmental issues in food production Understand evaluation methods for the environmental impact of food production systems in different contexts and levels (e.g. farm, regional and global) Be able to evaluate strong and weak points of different food production systems regarding environmental sustainability Be able to contribute to a discussion about environmental sustainability and food production and ask relevant questions"
Price: 49.00 |
| "Sustainable Food Security: Food Access" |
| "Food access: Learn about food supply and food security Have you ever considered that you’re not the only one who decides what food ends up on your plate? In this environmental studies course, you’ll explore how key actors at household, local, national and international levels negotiate and make choices on access to food. You will understand why the choices you make have been predestined. And you will learn what it takes to provide access to a safe and nutritious food supply every day. In this course you will learn that food access: And food manufacturing has changed during the past century Depends on social and economic dynamics at the household level for everyone Is shaped at a local level by the interactions between traders, retailers, producers and buyers in the markets Is influenced on a national scale by politics and policies by negotiating and aligning goals, instruments, and modes of governance ¥ is impacted by debates and negotiations creating conditions in food trade by international organizations Wageningen University is specialized The University of Wageningen offers an excellent combination of conducting research worldwide and educating in the area of ‘healthy food and living environment’. The institute ranks among the top Dutch universities and has scored the third place in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Ranking 2017 for research performance. Learn from professors who have gained decades of experience from both teaching at a specialized university and real life projects about access to food worldwide. This is why you should sign up If you want to understand the basics of access to food and food decision-making from a multilevel perspective, you can sign up as a: student food and nutrition policy maker development practitioner and trainer at international, national, household and individual level A verified edX certificate provides proof for an employer, school, or other institution that you have successfully completed this online course."
Price: 49.00 |
| "Sustainable Food Security: Crop Production" |
| "Crop production: learn about agriculture and food production for the future How much food will be available for humankind in the future? Feeding nine billion people in 2050 without exhausting the planetary reserves is perhaps the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. In this course of the XSeries in environmental studies, you will examine the principles of crop production. You will learn about the ‘availability pillar’ of global food security that lies at the heart of food production, applicable to both crops and animal production. This course will discuss why yields in some parts of the world are lagging behind and identify the agro-ecological drivers that shape the broad diversity of production systems. Also, key issues relating to the closing of yield gaps and the difference in visions of sustainability will be explored. Systems-based approach at Wageningen University The University of Wageningen offers an excellent combination of conducting research worldwide and educating in the area of ‘healthy food and living environment’. Through its unique systems-based approach to food systems, the institute adds the phase of primary production to the broad context of global food security. This is why you should sign up If you want to enrich your views and action perspectives related to global food security and food systems, you can sign up as a: international student professional with a varied educational background After successful completion of both practice and graded questions related to this course, you will: Understand the basic concept of plant production Be able to value central issues related to global food production and consumption Understand the influences of water scarcity and water availability on crop production, as well as measures suppressing pests, diseases, and weeds Be able to identify processes that cause significant environmental problems and evaluate measures to solve and prevent those problems be able to judge innovations in food crop production on their merits for the rural population in the different geographical regions A verified edX certificate provides proof for an employer, school, or other institution that you have successfully completed this online course."
Price: 49.00 |
| "Sustainable Soil Management: Soil for life" |
| "Soil is the earth's fragile skin that anchors all life. We depend on soil to build our homes and cities, to grow crops for food and raise livestock, to support transportation and enable recreation. Yet we disregard this crucial and precious resource that lies right under our feet. This introductory environmental studies course will explore the importance of soil to life on earth, the issues, processes and societal challenges underlying soil degradation - and what can be done to ensure sustainable soil management for the future. The threats to our soil span deforestation, erosion, overgrazing, use of agrochemicals, pollution and climate change. Learn what you can do to make a difference in protecting this vital natural resource."
Price: 49.00 |
| "Science, Engineering, AI & Data Ethics | 科学技術・AI倫理" |
| "Want to learn how to identify and solve every day ethical issues in engineering, science and Artificial Intelligence (AI)? If yes, this is the course for you! Ethics plays an integral role when it comes to engineering and science practice and recently is impacted by AI and big data analysis. This course originally released in 2017 teaches traditional preventive engineering ethics but emphasizes aspirational ethics. A new module was added that covers the topics of AI and Data ethics. which engineers and scientists also need to understand. The learning objectives of this course are as follows: recognize the significant social and environmental impact of engineering/scientific solutions. apply a practical seven-step ethical guide to real-world cases. critique, analyze, and develop best ethical solutions across micro- to meta- levels toward real-world problems. understand how one behaves in an organization professionally as an ethical engineer. learn how to apply ethical principles on advanced technologies like artificial intelligence. understand different AI related ethical guidelines and how to apply them. grasp how AI related ethical & technical standards are influenced by bias, trade-offs and norms The first six units cover science and engineering topics and the lectures are given in Japanese. Slides, quizzes and transcripts are available both in English and Japanese. In unit 7 on AI & Data ethics, the lectures and all materials are in English. 本コースは、工学、科学、AI（人工知能）分野で日々起こる倫理的問題を捉え、解決する方法を学びたいと考えている方に最適のコースです。倫理は、工学と科学を実践する際に不可欠な役割を果たし、最近では、AIとビッグデータ分析の影響も受けています。 2017年にリリースされた本コースの前身となるコースでは、工学分野の伝統的な「予防倫理」および「志向倫理」を取扱ってきましたが、今回の改訂により、 すべての技術者および科学者に必要なAIとデータ倫理を取扱う新しいモジュールが追加されました。 本コースの学習目標は以下のとおりです。 工学的・科学的解決策が社会・環境に与える影響の大きさを認識する。 事例研究を通して実践的な倫理手法であるセブン・ステップ・ガイドを応用する。 現実世界の問題に対し、マクロからメタレベルにかけて倫理的に最も良い解決策を批評、分析、発展させる。 事例研究を通じて、倫理的な技術者として専門的な組織内でどのように個人がふるまうかを理解する。 AIのような発展中の技術に対し、どう倫理原則を適用するかを理解する。 AIに関連する様々な倫理ガイドラインとその適用方法を理解する。 AI関連の倫理的および技術的な基準が偏見、トレードオフの関係、規範等によってどのような影響を受けるのかと把握する。"
Price: 159.00 |
