Coursera Courses

Capstone Project: Teaching Impacts of Technology

Prepare to teach AP Computer Science Principles by analyzing computing innovations, assessing student work, and creating your own project on technology's societal impacts.

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• 6 hours 40 minutes
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• Paid Course

Hacking COVID-19 — Course 2: Decoding SARS-CoV-2's Secrets

Explore SARS-CoV-2 genome annotation and design a COVID-19 diagnostic test. Learn bioinformatics concepts and practice skills through gradually complex problems in this hands-on computational biology course.

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• 6 hours 29 minutes
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A New Communication Framework for Healthcare

Explore a framework for compassionate healthcare communication, focusing on narrative understanding, empathy, and effective storytelling in clinical settings.

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• 4 hours 45 minutes
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Computational Thinking for K-12 Educators: Variables and Nested Loops

Explore abstraction, lists, and nested loops through interactive projects. Develop problem-solving skills and learn to guide classroom discussions on programming concepts for K-12 students.

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• 15 hours 58 minutes
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Computational Thinking for K-12 Educators: Conditional Loops and If Statements

Explore conditional loops and if statements for K-12 programming education. Learn to create interactive games, debug common issues, and implement effective teaching strategies like Peer Instruction.

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• 11 hours 34 minutes
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Capstone: Analyzing (Social) Network Data

100 ratings at Coursera

Analyze social networks to uncover influential members, sub-communities, and connections. Apply graph algorithms and data structures to explore real-world network data and showcase findings through a video presentation.

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• 19 hours 49 minutes
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Computational Thinking for K-12 Educators: Abstraction, Methods, and Lists

Explore abstraction, methods, lists, and recursion in programming. Develop teaching strategies for K-12 CS education, including culturally relevant pedagogy and low-frustration learning experiences.

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• 9 hours 4 minutes
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Teaching Impacts of Technology: Global Society

Explore technology's impact on global communication, daily life, and security. Learn about VPNs, IoT, self-driving cars, cybersecurity, and bitcoin. Gain insights for teaching these concepts effectively.

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• 12 hours 26 minutes
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Computational Thinking for K-12 Educators Capstone

Prepare K-12 educators to guide students through the AP Computer Science Principles Create Task, focusing on algorithm design, abstraction, and project management skills.

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• 11 hours 26 minutes
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Molecular Evolution (Bioinformatics IV)

79 ratings at Coursera

Explore evolutionary tree construction and proteomics to solve biological mysteries, from tracing virus origins to proving bird-dinosaur connections. Apply bioinformatics tools to reconstruct ebola evolutionary trees.

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• 18 hours
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• Paid Course

Introduction to Seaweeds

77 ratings at Coursera

This course was produced by the Algae Technology Educational Consortium and UC San Diego with funding from the Algae Foundation, the National Renewable Energy Lab, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

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• 1 day 2 hours 44 minutes
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Hacking COVID-19 — Course 3: Unraveling COVID-19's Origins

Explore SARS-CoV-2's origins through bioinformatics, focusing on sequence alignment and phylogenetics to investigate hypotheses about the virus's emergence and evolution.

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• 6 hours 48 minutes
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Design Thinking and Predictive Analytics for Data Products

68 ratings at Coursera

Learn to design predictive models using Python, covering supervised learning, regression, feature engineering, classification methods, and gradient descent. Gain hands-on experience in data manipulation and analysis.

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• 8 hours 25 minutes
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Finding Mutations in DNA and Proteins (Bioinformatics VI)

61 ratings at Coursera

Explore advanced DNA and protein mutation analysis using combinatorial pattern matching and hidden Markov models. Learn to map genome fragments and identify protein functions in highly mutated scenarios like HIV research.

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• 24 hours
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Hacking COVID-19 — Course 1: Identifying a Deadly Pathogen

59 ratings at Coursera

Explore SARS-CoV-2 genome assembly through bioinformatics, tracing the virus's history and using tools like SPAdes and QUAST to reconstruct and assess its genetic makeup.

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• 6 hours 40 minutes
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• Paid Course