Canada Courses & Certifications

University of Alberta;  Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

Prediction and Control with Function Approximation

24 ratings

Scale reinforcement learning to infinite state spaces: implement TD, expected Sarsa, Q-learning and Actor-Critic with tile-coding and neural network function approximation.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Software Architecture

22 ratings

Compare architectural styles like pipes and filters, event-based and n-tier, express systems in UML package, component and deployment diagrams, and evaluate architectures with ATAM.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

How to Code: Simple Data

15 ratings

Learn the secret to writing well-tested and easy to improve programs, that will set you up to master any programming language

• edX
• 7 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During COVID-19

12 ratings

Never in the history of humanity have so many people been feeling intense anxiety related to COVID-19 and the world it will leave in its wake.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code

10 ratings

Not all programs are created equal.  In this course, we'll focus on writing quality code that runs correctly and efficiently.  We'll design, code and validate our programs and learn how to compare programs that are addressing the same task.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Stanford;  The University of British Columbia

Game Theory II: Advanced Applications

10 ratings

Design interactions between self-interested agents: apply social choice theory, Arrow's Theorem, mechanism design, Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanisms, and auction theory to achieve good social outcomes.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Bioinformatic Methods I

9 ratings

Use web-based bioinformatics tools to search NCBI databases, run BLAST, build multiple sequence alignments with Clustal, MUSCLE and MAFFT, infer phylogenies, and explore RNA-seq and metagenome data.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Managing Your Health: The Role of Physical Therapy and Exercise

8 ratings

Explore how exercise and physiotherapy support health across cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, cancer, arthritis and sports injuries, while assessing your own activity, calcium intake and risk factors.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Software Product Management

12 ratings

Explore the software product manager's role and the Agile philosophy, plus four foundations: establishing process, defining requirements, planning work, and monitoring development.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction To Swift Programming

7 ratings

Learn Swift programming from variable declaration and control flow through classes, structs, enums, and protocols, ending with an image filter that manipulates pixels.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Communication Strategies for a Virtual Age

6 ratings

Apply communication techniques for virtual and in-person teams: run efficient meetings, build science-based presentations, read communication styles to persuade, and record yourself speaking for practice.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Arts and Science of Relationships: Understanding Human Needs

5 ratings

Learn the SSLD approach to relationships: assess needs, circumstances, characteristics and capacity, sharpen listening and expression skills, and handle relationship problems, transitions and endings.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Astro 101: Black Holes

9 ratings

Black holes as a gateway to modern physics: learn stellar life cycles, curved spacetime, event horizons, accretion discs and jets, wormholes, and gravitational-wave detection.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Project Management for Designers

13 ratings

Manage design projects end to end: estimates, contracts, milestones and signoffs, difficult clients and scope creep, billing, and postmortems after launch.

• Kadenze
• 48 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Aboriginal Worldviews and Education

504 ratings at Coursera

Indigenous ways of knowing can benefit all students: explore Aboriginal worldviews' cultural, spiritual and philosophical themes, the history of Aboriginal education, and contemporary professional practice.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course