edX Courses

Storytelling for Social Change

29 ratings at edX

Use stories to deliver messages that affect people. Learn how to craft a story that develops empathy and delivers impact.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 1-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Identifying Community Needs for Public Library Management

10 ratings at edX

Learn how to conduct research, surveys, and interviews as well as how to analyze data to better assess the local needs and wants of a public library community.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 4-5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Database Design and Basic SQL in PostgreSQL

7 ratings at edX

Learn database design principles and essential SQL commands in PostgreSQL. Create tables, define schemas, model relationships, and perform data operations through hands-on assignments.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Grant Writing and Crowdfunding for Public Libraries

5 ratings at edX

Learn how to increase your impact, innovate, and overcome often static funding through various fundraising and grant writing approaches.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Public Library Management

Comprehensive program for aspiring public library managers, covering essential skills in community needs assessment, diversity, personnel management, finance, infrastructure, strategic planning, fundraising, and marketing.

• edX
• 32 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• $472.00
• 8 courses

Career Certificate

PostgreSQL for Everybody

Explore PostgreSQL's advanced features for data management, including JSON, NoSQL, and natural language processing. Gain practical skills in database design, architecture, and deployment.

• edX
• 15 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• $236.00
• 4 courses

Impacting the Opioid Crisis: Prevention, Education, and Practice for Non-Prescribing Providers

Empower non-prescribing providers to impact the opioid crisis through prevention, education, and evidence-based strategies. Gain knowledge and tools to transform practice and policies in healthcare, behavioral health, dental, and social services.

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

Using JavaScript and JSON in Django

This fourth and final course in Django for Everybody explores the JavaScript language and provides an introduction to the jQuery library and the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) syntax.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Intermediate PostgreSQL

This second course in PostgreSQL for Everybody explores a wide range of SQL techniques to aggregate and transact data in PostgreSQL.This course also explores handling, reading, and parsing data with PostgreSQL and working with text in databases with regu…

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Building Web Applications in Django

This second course in Django for Everybody explores data models in Django and how it communicates with a database. This course also explores basic Structured Query Language (SQL) and database modeling and how they work in the Django model.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Django Features and Libraries

Explore Django's advanced features for building user-friendly web applications, including authentication, sessions, and deployment techniques.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Web Application Technologies and Django

Explore web application fundamentals, HTTP, HTML, and Django framework. Learn MVC pattern and deploy your app online using PythonAnywhere.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Strategic Planning for Public Libraries

Learn how to develop, implement, and adapt a strategic plan to fit the needs of your library.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Managing a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace for Public Libraries

Learn management skills to support workplace diversity and inclusion in a public library setting.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Database Architecture, Scale, and NoSQL with Elasticsearch

Explore database architecture, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch NoSQL. Learn CRUD operations, indexing, transactions, and compare ACID and BASE approaches for scalable deployments.

• edX
• 3 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)