English Courses

Academic and Business Writing

18 ratings

An introduction to academic and business writing for English Language Learners, focusing on grammar, vocabulary, structure, editing, and publication.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Stanford Seminar - Modular Engineering, Electric Cars and More

6 ratings

A seminar considers how an engineering mindset can help evaluate responses to climate problems, with modular engineering and electric cars as its focus.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Financing Innovation - Common Mistakes Even Great Investors Make

6 ratings

In this webinar Stanford Professor Peter DeMarzo, Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business and instructor within the Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship certificate, discusses how to value ideas and innovations so they receive the pr…

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Backyard Meteorology: The Science of Weather

65 ratings at edX

Learn to forecast the weather just by looking out your window.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Science: Linear Regression

29 ratings at edX

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

IT Fundamentals for Business Professionals: Hardware

24 ratings

Working with Information Technology (IT) without the necessary background? Learn the fundamentals of hardware in Information Systems

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Prospecting for Oil and Natural Gas Lecture

6 ratings

Learn how rock formations, field anatomy, exploration methods, regulation, and resource locations shape the prospecting of oil and natural gas.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Biofuels: Types, Production, and Environmental Impact - Lecture

6 ratings

A short overview of biofuels centered on ethanol and biodiesel, with a closing look at incentives and standards.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cybersecurity Fundamentals

24 ratings

Learn cybersecurity fundamentals, including how to detect threats, protect systems and networks, and anticipate potential cyber attacks.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 10-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Guitar for Beginners

22 ratings

Start playing acoustic or electric guitar: tune the strings, strum and pick, read basic notation, and build scales, triads, power chords, and pentatonic melodies.

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

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

University of Arizona

Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space

24 ratings

This course is designed for anyone who is interested in learning more about modern astronomy. We will help you get up to date on the most recent astronomical discoveries while also providing support at an introductory level for those who have no backgrou…

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

• Best of All Time

Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence

24 ratings

Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many l…

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

• Best of All Time

Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors

13 ratings

Trace the birth of Western philosophy: study the Milesians, Heraclitus, Parmenides and the atomists, then Socrates and Plato on virtue, justice, knowledge and the Forms.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 21 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Tutorials for Complex Systems

25 ratings

This course covers several mathematical techniques that are frequently used in complex systems science. The techniques are covered in independent units, taught by different instructors.

• Complexity Explorer
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course