Our Courses
Draw out Creative Ideas with Reverse Brainstorming in Miro
By the end of this project, you will be able to lead team idea generation with reverse brainstorming in Miro.
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- 1 hour
- English
Think Again III: How to Reason Inductively
Want to solve a murder mystery? What caused your computer to fail? Who can you trust in your everyday life? In this course, you will learn how to analyze and assess five common forms of inductive arguments: generalizations from samples, applications of generalizations, inference to the best explanation, arguments from analogy, and causal reasoning. The course closes by showing how you can use probability to help make decisions of all sorts.
Suggested Readings
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- 24 hours
- English
Finalize a Data Science Project
This course is designed for business professionals that want to learn how to gather results from previous stages of the data science project and present them to stakeholders. Learners will communicate the results of a model to stakeholders, be shown how to build a basic web app to demonstrate machine learning models and implement and test pipelines that automate the model training, tuning and deployment processes.
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- 12 hours
- English
Process Personal Details using Methods in Java
This project provides a step-by-step approach in instruction and will equip you with fundamental concepts of creating and using methods in Java programming, from the ground up.
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- 3 hours
- English
Capstone - Launch Your Own Business!
It is a cliché, but nevertheless very true. Experience is the best teacher. It is also the best confidence builder. It is time for you to take action! The concepts and skills presented throughout the courses in the specialization are applied in this capstone course where you will launch an actual business.
It will not be a business concept described on paper, but a functional business with legal status in your particular governmental jurisdiction, developed within your available resources whatever they are, and challenged to generate revenue.
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- 19 hours
- English
Best Practices in Planning DE&I Interventions
Best practices in Planning DE&I Interventions presents a “how-to,” step-by-step approach to planning around and executing diversity initiatives. From recruitment, retention, and training, this module addresses issues such as what do you do when your organization is not ready for DE&I, to how to turn principle concepts of DE&I into practical application and desired deliverables.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
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- 6 hours
- English
Application Development using Microservices and Serverless
Welcome to this introductory course on microservices and serverless, essential technologies for cloud native and application modernization workloads.
Rather than building large applications, known as monoliths, that perform all the functionality, microservices break down larger applications into smaller pieces that are independently maintainable and scalable, providing a host of benefits. This architecture is now used in the largest software organizations in the world, because it provides cost benefits, team autonomy, and other advantages.
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- 24 hours
- English
Apply Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
In this course, you will:
- Explore the applications of GANs and examine them wrt data augmentation, privacy, and anonymity
- Leverage the image-to-image translation framework and identify applications to modalities beyond images
- Implement Pix2Pix, a paired image-to-image translation GAN, to adapt satellite images into map routes (and vice versa)
- Compare paired image-to-image translation to unpaired image-to-image translation and identify how their key difference necessitates different GAN architectures
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- 27 hours
- English
Healthcare Data Literacy
This course will help lay the foundation of your healthcare data journey and provide you with knowledge and skills necessary to work in the healthcare industry as a data scientist. Healthcare is unique because it is associated with continually evolving and complex processes associated with health management and medical care. We'll learn about the many facets to consider in healthcare and determine the value and growing need for data analysts in healthcare. We'll learn about the Triple Aim and other data-enabled healthcare drivers.
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- 13 hours
- English
Inequality and Democracy
Most countries are getting more and more unequal. But the core of democracy is political equality: that everyone should have an equal say in how their country is run. Can we really expect these things to go together? Can people have equal political power while economic inequality grows and grows? Take this course and decide for yourself.
You’ll learn about:
•\tThe rise of economic inequality
•\tProperty rights and the corporation
•\tDemocracy: Its value and history
•\tCampaign finance and lobbying
•\tTax avoidance and capital flight
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- 21 hours
- English
Innovation for Impact (i4i) The Carlson-Polizzotto Method of Value Creation
Welcome!
Partnering with Tech industry giants Curtis Carlson and Len Polizzotto, Northeastern University brings you “Value Creation: The Carlson-Polizzotto Method” a short-form course experience like no other.
Building careers by solving for the value proposition - Curt and Len are responsible for driving the integration of the software technology behind Apple’s voice command intelligent assistant and creating the standard for high definition television - now known to billions today as Siri and HDTV.
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- 3 hours
- English
Evaluating Student Understanding with Socrative
By the end of this project, you be able to evaluate students in real time and provide immediate feedback using Socrative.
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- 1 hour
- English
Introduction to Python for Cybersecurity
This course it the first part of the Python for Cybersecurity Specialization. Learners will get an introduction and overview of the course format and learning objectives.
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- 4 hours
- English
Philosophy, Science and Religion: Religion and Science
Philosophy, Science and Religion mark three of the most fundamental modes of thinking about the world and our place in it. Are these modes incompatible? Put another way: is the intellectually responsible thing to do to ‘pick sides’ and identify with one of these approaches at the exclusion of others? Or, are they complementary or mutually supportive? As is typical of questions of such magnitude, the devil is in the details. For example, it is important to work out what is really distinctive about each of these ways of inquiring about the world.
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- 27 hours
- English
Mastering Remote Work and Online Study in U.S. in the post-COVID Era
Are you ready for the new, COVID-forced, online learning paradigm? This competency-based, skill-building course will help non-U.S. students, first-generation immigrants, and foreign-born professionals better understand and master American online learning, as well as other U.S. virtual environments, for college and career success. In the post-COVID era, the course can also be very instrumental in assisting U.S.-based institutions in organizing remote learning activities for their current or prospective international students.
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- 24 hours
- English
Identifying Security Vulnerabilities
This course will help you build a foundation of some of the fundamental concepts in secure programming. We will learn about the concepts of threat modeling and cryptography and you'll be able to start to create threat models, and think critically about the threat models created by other people. We'll learn the basics of applying cryptography, such as encryption and secure hashing. We'll learn how attackers can exploit application vulnerabilities through the improper handling user-controlled data.
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- 14 hours
- English
Create Your Own Glossary in Microsoft Word
At the end of this project, you will learn different methods to create your own glossary in Microsoft Word.
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- 1 hour
- English
Create Your First Multithreaded Application in Java
In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create a banking application that uses conditions and locks to ensure thread safety, practice designing programs that take advantage of multiple threads without losing data integrity, and learn how to apply multithreading to your own projects.
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- 2 hours
- English
Persuasive Communication
Persuasive Communication is designed to teach individuals the principles of persuasive communication, enabling them to effectively convey their message and reach their audience.
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- 19 hours
- English
Protecting the World: Introducing Corrosion Science and Engineering
If you have ever encountered rusty car bodies, leaking pipes, tarnished silverware or the green patina of a copper roof then you have experienced corrosion in action. This course, from the Corrosion@Manchester team in collaboration with AkzoNobel, will teach you why metals corrode, what the environmental consequences are, how much corrosion costs and how corrosion can be controlled. It is designed for students, householders, teachers, professionals and anyone in-between.
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- 12 hours
- English
Survey analysis to Gain Marketing Insights
How do consumers see your brand relative to your competitors? How should a new product be positioned when it’s launched? Which customer segments are most interested in our current offerings? For these questions and many others, surveys remain the tried and true method for gaining marketing insights. From one-off customer satisfaction surveys to brand tracking surveys that are administered on a continuous basis, they provide the information that marketers need to understand how their products, services and brands are seen by consumers.
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- 6 hours
- English
Learn Angular Routing by building a Cocktails Application
In this 2-hours long project-based course, you will build an Angular application that uses a real API to fetch and display cocktail recipes.
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- 2 hours
- English
Music for Wellness
You love music. You listen to music all the time. Maybe you sing, play an instrument, or compose music. You don’t need to have musical talent to use music to enhance your well being, and even your health.
Learn simple techniques to enrich your mind, body, and spirit through music. The methods can be applied in your daily life, particularly when you are feeling down or stressed out. Developed by a board-certified music therapist and a vocalist/pianist/composer/recording artist specializing in Indian music, these strategies combine science with the wisdom of Eastern philosophy.
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- 10 hours
- English
Analysing Covid-19 Geospatial data with Python
In this one-hour guided project, you will learn how to process geospatial data using Python.
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- 3 hours
- English
Computational Fluid Mechanics - Airflow Around a Spoiler
In this hands-on project, you will learn about Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and perform an incompressible fluid flow simulation around a spoiler using the cloud-based simulation tool SimScale.
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- 3 hours
- English