Netherlands Courses & Certifications

Erasmus University Rotterdam;  University of Leeds

Digital Governance

210 ratings at Coursera

Examine how digital technologies disrupt law and politics: e-democracy, automated government administration, online courts, competition regulation of big tech, and the design of data ownership rights.

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

Utrecht University

Human Rights for Open Societies

661 ratings at Coursera

Examine the European Convention on Human Rights: how individuals complain to the European Court, and how it decides cases on free expression, protest, voting, discrimination and asylum seekers.

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

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

165 ratings at Coursera

QCA is a comparative method that is mainly used in the social sciences for the assessment of cause-effect relations (i.e. causation). The course is designed for people who have no or little experience with QCA.

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

The Epistemic Quest for Truth: Introduction to epistemology

120 ratings at Coursera

Put 2500 years of epistemology to work against truth decay: analyze knowledge, Gettier cases, foundationalism versus coherentism, reliabilism, and the value of knowledge.

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

A Business Approach to Sustainable Landscape Restoration

103 ratings at Coursera

Learn to design business-driven landscape restoration: assess degraded ecosystems, value ecosystem services, apply the 4 returns framework, build partnerships, and use the business model and PPP canvases.

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

Earth Economics

90 ratings at Coursera

Treat the planet as a single economy: analyze Gross Planet Product and world unemployment, build ISLM models, and assess global fiscal, monetary and sustainability policy.

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

Science Communication: Communicating Trustworthy Information in the Digital World

62 ratings at Coursera

Learn to communicate science in the digital age: counter fake news and misinformation, and rebuild public trust across scientists, journalists, policymakers, and citizens.

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

Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Landscape Restoration

51 ratings at Coursera

Design your own four-returns business model for landscape restoration: run systems and stakeholder analyses, build a triple-layered business model canvas, validate assumptions, and set KPIs.

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

Regulated Competition in Healthcare Systems: Theory & Practice

44 ratings at Coursera

Learn how regulated competition works in healthcare: market versus government failure, ten preconditions for efficiency, risk equalization and selection, merger control, and value-based provider payment.

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

The Politics of Skepticism

42 ratings at Coursera

Trace Skepticism from Plato and the Sophists to Hume and Mill, examining its ties to religion, natural law, conservatism, tolerance and freedom of expression.

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

Erasmus University Rotterdam;  TU Delft

Excel Modeling for Professionals: Best Practices & Pitfalls

38 ratings at Coursera

Build Excel models that last: structure input data, choose functions wisely, format and document clearly, protect sheets, and run automated and manual accuracy checks.

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

Trade & investment: evidence-based policies for development

34 ratings at Coursera

Analyze trade and investment policy in emerging markets: apply trade and FDI theories, firm productivity data, gravity models and comparative advantage indices, then write evidence-based policy advice.

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

Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA)

29 ratings at Coursera

Learn to analyze data with necessity logic: formulate necessary condition hypotheses, run NCA in R, read scatter plot empty spaces, interpret effect size and p-values, and report findings.

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

Multilevel Modeling

22 ratings at Coursera

Learn the theory of two-level multilevel models for hierarchical data with continuous outcomes, covering random slopes and cross-level interactions, and fit basic models in R.

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

Thought Experiments: An introduction to philosophy

22 ratings at Coursera

Use thought experiments to test philosophical claims: the Gettier problem, scepticism about the external world, the mind-body problem, free will, personal identity, and social contract theories.

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