South Africa Courses & Certifications

Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics

897 ratings

If you’ve ever skipped over`the results section of a medical paper because terms like “confidence interval” or “p-value” go over your head, then you’re in the right place.

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

• Best of All Time

Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation

40 ratings

Learn to act as a social innovator: tackle complex "wicked" problems, spot hidden resources, apply Design Thinking, challenge system rules, and scale social impact.

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

• Best of All Time

Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries

36 ratings

This course challenges you to consider how one might lift societies out of poverty while also mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. We explore the inherent complexity of developing country governments wanting to grow their economies in a climate friendly…

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

Severe to Profound Intellectual Disability: Circles of Care and Education

33 ratings

This course is about caring for and educating children (and youth) with severe to profound intellectual disability.

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

Julia Scientific Programming

33 ratings

Learn Julia from scratch: use arrays, loops and functions on Ebola outbreak data, fit an SIR model, and build plots, DataFrames and statistical tests.

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

Disability Inclusion in Education: Building Systems of Support

15 ratings

Learn to support learners who are D/deaf, blind or have severe intellectual disabilities: models of disability, systemic support structures, and universal design for learning plans.

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

Organ Donation: From Death to Life

15 ratings

Learn how brain death and circulatory death are determined, how to request consent from grieving families, and how donated organs are assessed, allocated and transplanted.

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

Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space

262 ratings at Coursera

In this course, we provide practical insights into how to write an academic essay. We show you how to develop the academic skills needed to be a competent academic writer.

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

Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms

199 ratings at Coursera

In the education of children with visual impairment, there is at present a global movement away from segregated special schooling, and towards inclusive neighbourhood schools.

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

Innovative Finance: Hacking finance to change the world

153 ratings at Coursera

Design innovative financing strategies for social impact: choose an issue area, run due diligence with design thinking, map resources, and use outcomes-based contracts and partnerships.

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

How Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets can master the Blockchain Technology

49 ratings at Coursera

Learn how blockchain works as a distributed ledger: public-private key cryptography, proof of work and proof of stake, AI in finance, and Web 3.0 data ownership.

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

Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher

431 ratings at Coursera

This course provides you with invaluable knowledge and skills about teaching Deaf children.

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

Building Fintech Startups in Emerging Markets

67 ratings at Coursera

Learn to build a fintech startup in an emerging market: apply design thinking and the business model canvas, then tackle regulation, intellectual property, equity and funding.

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

University of Cape Town;  Oxfam

Research for Impact

214 ratings at Coursera

Learn to design research that changes policy and practice: apply theory of change, stakeholder engagement, strategic communication, capacity development and influencing to your own research projects.

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

Career Certificate

Fintech Startups in Emerging Markets

283 ratings at Coursera

Build a fintech startup for emerging markets: study changing financial regulation, blockchain and AI applications, design thinking, and pitch a business model canvas in a capstone.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses