Coursera Courses

Model Thinking

64 ratings

Think with many models: work through Schelling segregation, tipping points, Markov processes, random walks, the prisoners' dilemma, and replicator dynamics to explain social phenomena.

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

• Best of All Time

Cryptography I

53 ratings

Cryptography is an indispensable tool for protecting information in computer systems. In this course you will learn the inner workings of cryptographic systems and how to correctly use them in real-world applications.

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

• Best of All Time

The Construction Management Industry and Profession

70 ratings

Explore the construction industry's sectors and careers, the roles of owners, designers and construction teams, leadership practices, and the facility life cycle from planning through post-construction.

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

Introduction to Mathematical Thinking

51 ratings

A key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box – a valuable ability in today’s world. This course helps to develop that crucial way of thinking.

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

• Best of All Time

Stanford Introduction to Food and Health

49 ratings

Learn to tell foods that support health from those that threaten it: key nutrients, processed foods and sugar, label reading, balanced meals, and home cooking.

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

• Best of All Time

Gamification

58 ratings

Learn to apply game elements to non-game problems: deconstruct games into design components, use reward and motivation psychology, and follow a six-step gamification design framework.

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

• Best of All Time

Applications in Engineering Mechanics

62 ratings

Analyze static equilibrium in real engineering structures: frames and machines, plane and space trusses, shear force and bending moment diagrams, cable supports, and Coulomb and belt friction.

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

Functional Programming Principles in Scala

65 ratings

In this course you will discover the elements of the functional programming style and learn how to apply them usefully in your daily programming tasks.

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

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Algorithms, Part I

61 ratings

Implement and analyze fundamental data structures and algorithms in Java: union−find, mergesort and quicksort, priority queues, binary search trees, hash tables, and scientific performance analysis.

• Coursera
• 13 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Getting and Cleaning Data

58 ratings

Collect data from the web, APIs, databases like MySQL and shared files, then clean, merge and reshape it into tidy data sets using R.

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

Chinese for Beginners

61 ratings

This is an ABC Chinese course for beginners, including introduction of phonetics and daily expressions. After taking this class, learners can have a basic understanding of Chinese Mandarin and make basic conversations of daily living.

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

• Best of All Time

Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us

52 ratings

Learn the anatomy and physiology behind heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, respiration rate, and pain, and practice measuring each vital sign accurately.

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

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An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 2)

59 ratings

Build interactive Python games such as Blackjack and Asteroids using mouse input, lists, dictionaries, classes, sprites, collision detection, and animation.

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

Deep Teaching Solutions

Uncommon Sense Teaching: Teaching Online

62 ratings

Students can learn better online than in a classroom: apply schemas, motivation, retrieval and spaced repetition, plus camera, lighting and sound choices, to online teaching.

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

Introduction to HTML5

52 ratings

This course will appeal to a wide variety of people, but specifically those who would like a step-by-step description of the basics. There are no prerequisites for this course and it is assumed that students have no prior programming skills or IT experie…

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

• Best of All Time