Learn best practices and approaches to writing effective business letters, emails, and reports. Format, composition, and clarity are emphasized. This course will help you learn to organize your writing so the process of composing a business letter, email, or report is smoother and faster. Learn how to...

Learn to understand personal growth from a comparative perspective. Want to learn about how you become who you are, but not sure where to kick off that journey?  This is a fantastic course for you.This course covers important factors influencing your personal growth (i.e., how you grow by exposing...

Learn how to think like a hacker, but behave as a security expert. Are you tired of hearing that your computer has a virus? Or that your email account has been hacked? Now, is the time for you to protect yourself by understanding the basics of cyber security. This computer science course presents an...

Este curso en línea presenta las comunicaciones móviles de forma accesible a cualquier persona que tenga interés por conocer en detalle sus fundamentos. Las comunicaciones móviles son un motor de la economía y lideran el crecimiento de las telecomunicaciones a nivel...

Explore emerging learning theories and interactive technologies to create engaging experiences for today’s connected students. Technology, digital media and mobile access have changed how people learn. Today’s students want to be engaged and self-directed with digital content, available anytime...

Learn the chemistry behind the visual arts, and how an understanding of art’s material properties helps preserve our cultural heritage. How do artists create visual effects? In order to create an artistic impression, artists select materials that allow image formation, and that lend color, emphasis,...

Explore the design, development and use of digital media and emerging technologies to support online teaching and learning. Instructional designers today have a tremendous number of tools and resources available to them to create highly engaging courses. Social media, digital video, and freely available...

Las estructuras están presentes en todos los sistemas que nos rodean. Descubrirlas y comprender cómo funcionan es sencillo y fascinante. Las estructuras están implicadas en nuestras vidas: las plantas, los animales, casi todo lo que fabrica el ser humano, incluso nuestro propio cuerpo, deben soportar...

In this course, you will learn how to value a company. You will also learn how companies can create sustainable value for the business. Have you wondered how some companies have high market value or how some companies are acquired with huge valuations such as Microsoft that paid $26 billion  purchase...

Explore the history of space travel and learn the basics of aerospace engineering. Space exploration plays a major role in the history of humankind. The cultural, political and sociological repercussions are extraordinary, and the amount of resources dedicated to space exploration is enormous. This aerospace...

An overview of competency-based education in schools: presenting ideas, inspiration, strategies, and challenges. Interested in earning a certificate at no cost? Enroll to audit this course, and we’ll send more information about this opportunity shortly before the course begins. Many schools across...

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library. As we approach the centennial of the passage of women’s suffrage in 1920, there has been a recent burst of activism among American women...

Una innovadora experiencia del aprendizaje mediante la lectura y la escritura de tipos de letra histórica. ¿Desea comprender el contexto histórico de las culturas medievales hispánicas que crearon documentos como forma de comunicación manuscrita? ¿Le interesa alcanzar unas competencias profesionales...

An intuitive approach to operational principles of semiconductor devices. The course covers MOS capacitors, charge coupled devices, classical MOSFETs, transistor scaling, short channel MOSFET, and nano-CMOS transistors. As a topic of study, semiconductor devices offer a unique challenge due to the complex...

Hasta dónde pueden ver las máquinas? Descubre la visión por computador programando aplicaciones de análisis de imágenes, uno de los campos más innovadores de la inteligencia artificial. Con este curso, el alumnado será capaz de aprender y entender los...

Learn the best practices and tools you need to plan and implement a sustainable major sport event. When planning to host a major sport event you must take certain steps to ensure that the event is not only sustainable for the host city or region, but also leaves a lasting legacy long after the event...

Learn basic R programming to analyze biological big data to locate genes, perform simulations, and gauge the effect of specific markers. Improvements in modern biology have led to a rapid increase in sensitivity and measurability in experiments and have reached the point where it is often impossible...

Discover the science and complexity of railway systems, including how their efficiency depends on the alignment of all their components. Have you ever wondered what it takes to get your train on the right platform at the scheduled time every day?Journey with us into the world of rail - a complex system...

Better data leads to better policies. For policymakers to make sound policy decisions, they need a core set of macroeconomic and financial statistics. Learn the essential background concepts and basic tools needed to compile data using the best available methods. This course reviews the...

A cross-disciplinary look at the biological factors that influence sex, fertility and making babies in modern society. Are you trying to conceive? Do you want to prevent conception (contraception)? Would you like to know more about your fertility? Have you considered how social factors influence the...