English Courses

Living with Dementia: Impact on Individuals, Caregivers, Communities and Societies

8 ratings

Learn foundational dementia care: pathophysiology and stages, behavioral and psychological symptoms, caregiver stress, home environment adaptations, dementia-friendly communities, and national policy plans.

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

Introduction to Spreadsheets and Models

6 ratings

Build spreadsheet models in Excel or Sheets: formulas and references, cashflow and what-if scenarios, sensitivity analysis, regression forecasts, Monte Carlo simulation, and linear programming with Solver.

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

Programming Basics

18 ratings

Learn basic computer programming skills and master the art of writing C/C++ programs to solve real world problems.

• edX
• 9 weeks, 6-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Operations Analytics

6 ratings

Learn to match supply with demand under uncertainty: forecast demand from historical data, build spreadsheet optimization models with Solver, run simulations, and evaluate decision trees.

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

Introduction to Personal Branding

15 ratings

Build a personal brand: define your values and mission statement, claim your space on three social media platforms, and set up a brand maintenance plan.

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

Creating Video Games

7 ratings

CMS.611J / 6.073 Creating Video Games is a class that introduces students to the complexities of working in small, multidisciplinary teams to develop video games. Students will learn creative design a

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 34 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems - Spring 2020

7 ratings

A 20-lecture survey of distributed systems spanning RPC, replication, Raft, consistency, transactions, big data, Bitcoin, and Blockstack.

• YouTube
• 1 day 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Text Retrieval and Search Engines

13 ratings

Learn how search engines rank text: build inverted indexes, apply vector space and language models, evaluate with nDCG, and explore learning to rank and recommender systems.

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

Career Certificate

Data Science

9 ratings

Work through the full data science pipeline in R: clean and explore data, run statistical inference and regression, apply machine learning, and build a data product.

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

From the Big Bang to Dark Energy

18 ratings

Trace 13.8 billion years of cosmic history: the Big Bang, the birth of elements and the Higgs boson, dark matter, anti-matter, inflation, and dark energy.

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

Sit Less, Get Active

14 ratings

Learn to sit less and move more: monitor your activity, set SMART goals, and find ways to be active at home, work, school and travelling.

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

Algorithmic Thinking (Part 1)

15 ratings

Implement graph algorithms in Python — brute force, breadth-first search, connected components — and use big O analysis to study citation graphs and computer network resilience.

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

Wonders of Ancient Egypt

5 ratings

Join Dr. David Silverman, Professor of Egyptology at Penn, Curator in Charge of the Egyptian Section of the Penn Museum, and curator of the Tutankhamun exhibitions on a guided tour of the mysteries and wonders of this ancient land.

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

Microeconomics: When Markets Fail

5 ratings

Analyze why markets fail: model perfect competition, monopoly and price discrimination, externalities, public goods and asymmetric information, and weigh remedies like antitrust, regulation and intervention.

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

Machine Learning

375 ratings

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning, datamining, and statistical pattern recognition.

• Coursera
• 11 weeks, 61 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course