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Sustainable Urban Water Systems
The MOOC “Sustainable Urban Water Systems” aims to provide knowledge about modern and sustainable solutions for urban water management in water-sensitive cities. The focus is on stormwater control and water supply strategies for the mitigation of effects on the water cycles due to human settlements and climate change. In particular, the integration of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) into urban drainage systems, the use of alternative water resources, and the reduction of losses and waste, make cities more resilient and add benefits to both the environment and community.
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3 hours
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Virtual Teacher Final Project
The Final Project will be a hands-on, comprehensive project that practitioners of virtual education can implement in their profession. For this final project, learners will draft a design plan for an online learning module utilizing materials learned from the virtual teacher series. Learners will choose the subject matter, method of delivery, tools, instructional strategies, and assessments, with the goal of creating a module of online or blended instruction that meets the needs of their students. Learners do not have to create, develop or teach the online learning module they design.
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5 hours
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Build a simple API-driven e-commerce application
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to build a simple restful API with python, create YAML and docker files, and how to connect containers together by means of a minimal website to create a fully interconnected microservice system using docker-compose.
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2 hours
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Baseball and Americanism
This course will explore baseball and Americanism. What does it mean that baseball is the national pastime? What does national pastime even mean? What about national? When you think of the United States, what do you think of? Is baseball a part of that? These are some of the aspects we are going to delve into throughout this course. We are going to spend some time discussing how baseball reflected American culture at the time. In some instances, we will discuss how baseball reflected what people wanted American culture to look like, or appear to be.
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10 hours
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Capstone: Analyzing (Social) Network Data
In this capstone project we’ll combine all of the skills from all four specialization courses to do something really fun: analyze social networks!
The opportunities for learning are practically endless in a social network. Who are the “influential” members of the network? What are the sub-communities in the network? Who is connected to whom, and by how many links? These are just some of the questions you can explore in this project.
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18 hours
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Digital Marketing Analytics
Welcome to the Digital Marketing Analytics course! We live in an era of digital technology and most marketing activities are shifting to digital platforms. It is indispensable for businesses to proactively take action on their websites, social media, blogs, and other digital platforms and to carefully examine the intent and action data of the consumers. A careful examination of the consumer or prospective consumer’s digital activity can provide deep insights that can make a company create winning products and cement its leadership position in the markets.
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16 hours
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English
Create a Database with LibreOffice Base
By the end of this project you will have used LibreOffice Base to create a relational database table and populate it with rows of data.
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3 hours
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English
Using APIs for Network Automation
This course will provide a solid foundation for understanding how APIs are utilized in network automation by discussing important topics such as data encoding formats, REST APIs, and the Python Requests library. Upon completion of the course, you will be equipped with the necessary skills to utilize APIs in your network automation solution and be able to describe the usefulness of APIs in this context.
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4 hours
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Planning your Client's Wealth over a 5-year Horizon
In this Capstone project, you will have to choose between three different characters (each with a unique set of financial constraints and objectives) and design an appropriate wealth plan for them over the next 5 years.
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13 hours
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Design Online Course Printables using Canva
By the end of this course, you will create a variety of templates for course printables that you can offer for free or sell in the marketplace using Canva.
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4 hours
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Myocardial Infarction
Cardiovascular diseases are – according to the (World Health Organization (WHO) – the number one cause of death globally. Myocardial infarction (heart attack) is the most prominent under the Cardiovascular diseases. In Switzerland alone, the risk to develop a coronary heart disease during life time is around 25% for men and 18% for women.
Most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioral risk factors, the understanding of these risk factors, their mechanisms and impact on the cardiovascular system.
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25 hours
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Creating a Looker Modeled Query and Working with Quick Start
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console.
Looker provides the ability for LookML developers to build modeled queries that help all Looker business users quickly get started and easily explore data in the platform.
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1 hour
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Internet of Things V2: DragonBoard™ bring up and community ecosystem
Do you want to develop skills to prototype embedded products using state-of-the-art technologies? In this course you will build a hardware and software development environment to guide your journey through the Internet of Things specialization courses. We will use the DragonBoard™ 410c single board computer (SBC).
This is the first in a series of courses where you will learn both the theory and get the hands-on development practice needed to prototype Internet of Things products. This course is suitable for a broad range of learners.
This course is for you if:
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Value-Based Care: Population Health
COURSE 2 of 7. This course is designed to introduce you to the concept of population health and related key terms. Refine your understanding of population health and what influences health care costs. Gain an overview of population health management, beginning with a high-level review of four critical areas: addressing behavioral and social determinants of health, the prevalence of chronic disease, attributes of an aging population, and key barriers of access to health care.
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7 hours
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English
Automating Sales Tasks with Zapier
This project gives you easy access to time-saving tools used by entrepreneurs, business administrators, and department leaders.
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3 hours
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English
Stocks and Bonds
In this course, we will apply the central concept and applications of Time Value of Money (TVM) to explore the structure and pricing of stocks and bonds at an introductory level. In this course, you will learn about bonds, different types of bonds (Zero Coupon bonds, Government bonds). You will learn about bond pricing calculations and see their direct connection to market data on bonds. You will also learn about stocks, and their pricing and valuation. You will learn about growth and dividend stocks and how to use market data.
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10 hours
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Gut Check: Exploring Your Microbiome
Imagine if there were an organ in your body that weighed as much as your brain, that affected your health, your weight, and even your behavior. Wouldn’t you want to know more about it? There is such an organ — the collection of microbes in and on your body, your human microbiome.
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14 hours
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So You Think You Know Tango?
How well do you think you know tango? This two-week mini-course is designed for music lovers, musicians, and dancers who are interested in learning more about the Argentine Tango. It will explore the many dimensions of the Argentine Tango music, including its origins, popularization during the Golden Age, dissemination abroad, evolution into an artistic music-dance form, and adoption by Argentine and international art-music composers to date.
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6 hours
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Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction
Philosophy is like sex: sure you can get some interesting results, but that's not why we do it. Going one step beyond…why do you FEEL pain or pleasure? Do plants have emotions? How is possible that some people do not understand other’s emotions? Emotions seem to be everywhere, giving meaning to all events of our lives. They are the backbone of social activities as well as they drive the cognitive processes of several living entities. Several animals, including humans, have emotions but…what about machines?...Do machine can have emotions?
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15 hours
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Sustainable Vikings: Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility in Scandinavia
This course gives you immediate access to the world leading sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. Scandinavian firms dominate the major sustainability and CSR performance indicators includi…
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13 hours
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Create a Web Link Preview with VueJS Components
One of the strengths of VueJS is the being able to leverage numerous third party reusable components.
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3 hours
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Photovoltaic solar energy
The course is an introduction to the photovoltaic (PV) applications in the general mix energetic context dominated by climate warming mitigation.
The various uses of solar energy are firstly presented before a short description of the principle of the direct solar photon conversion into electricity (PV).
The various PV technologies are reviewed in the current context dominated by crystalline silicon cells. The perspectives of the various technologies are then analysed in terms of R&D investments.
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6 hours
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AI and Climate Change
In this course, you’ll start with a review of the mechanisms behind anthropogenic climate change and its impact on global temperatures and weather patterns. You will work through two case studies, one using time series analysis for wind power forecasting and another using computer vision for biodiversity monitoring. Both case studies are examples of where AI techniques can be part of the solution when it comes to the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change.
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15 hours
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Material Extrusion
This course is a deep dive into the most commonly used method of additive manufacturing: material extrusion. We specifically examine the fused deposition modeling process, and then look at the related composite extrusion process which can extrude a continuous fiber (such as carbon fiber) along with a thermoplastic.
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7 hours
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Aboriginal Worldviews and Education
Intended for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal learners, this course will explore indigenous ways of knowing and how they can benefit all students. Topics include historical, social, and political issues in Aboriginal education; terminology; cultural, spiritual and philosophical themes in Aboriginal worldviews; and how Aboriginal worldviews can inform professional programs and practices, including but not limited to the field of education.
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14 hours
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English