Learn about the video game design process and experiment with effective methods for balancing a game's mechanics. In this course, you'll enter the mind of a professional game designer. You'll learn how to design different types of games, understand the commonalities between them and learn what is at...

Learn about the evolution of video games from experts at The Strong National Museum of Play, the world's largest collection of video game materials. Video games as a medium go back more than 50 years to mainframe computers. Even the central design of video games can be traced back to the first games...

Acquire a conceptual toolkit to navigate the high waters of cyberspace as you learn about the pains and gains of the net. Tangibility is being replaced by virtuality. Social media supplants the water cooler. MOOCs challenge the classroom. This course is a colorful melange of ideas, debates, inventions...

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today. From the Syrian refugee crisis to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, humanitarian emergencies have reached unprecedented dimensions and proportions. As need for humanitarian aid grows,...

Learn about the tools, processes and platforms that allow video game assets to be created and assembled into a commercial game. Modern video games are incredibly complex multimedia productions involving still and motion graphics, code, audio, interface elements, narrative elements and much more. In this...

An introduction to philosophy of mind, exploring consciousness, reality, AI, and more. The most in-depth philosophy course available online. What is the relationship between the mind and the body? Can computers think? Do we perceive reality as it is? Can there be a science of consciousness? This course...

Learn fundamental concepts of single-variable calculus and ordinary differential equations, as well as their applications in engineering fields. Apply mathematical skills to model and solve engineering problems. How do electrical engineers find out all the currents and voltages in a network of connected...

Learn the basics of market structure, including key market participants and what determines a market’s development. Taught by instructors with decades of experience on Wall Street, this economics and finance course provides students with a basic foundation in market structure, market structure science...

Learn about Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and understand how nutrition can support exercise and sports performance. Are you involved in sports and do you want to have a better understanding of the role of nutrition on performance and health? Do you want to learn whether certain nutritional strategies...

Don't let good failures go to waste! Identify the causes of failure and use this knowledge to enhance safety and improve performance. What do collapsed buildings, infected hospital patients, and crashed airplanes have in common? If you know the causes of these events and conditions, they can all be prevented...

Study the gastrointestinal, reproductive and endocrine systems to learn the primary functions of each and how they relate to the human body. In this anatomy course, part of the Anatomy XSeries, you’ll learn about the various digestive, endocrine, and reproductive organs, their functions, and pathways...

What did you aspire to be when you were young? What do kids in your family or community want to be when they grow up? In this course you'll find out how children and young people answer this question, and what you can do to help support their aspirations. This course provides an enriched understanding...

Learn a systematic, scientific and iterative process for identifying, evaluating and testing entrepreneurial opportunities. This hands-on, action oriented business and management course will introduce you to a systematic, scientific and an easy process of testing your ideas and opportunities you envision...

A learning program that focuses primarily on the preceptor-preceptee relationship within an academic, clinical learning experience, and can be applied at many levels in the nursing education sequence. Nursing programs partner with a variety of clinical practice settings to provide student nurses expert...

Investigate the cultivation and processing of cannabis, starting from seeds to a diversity of end products for a global market. This course will cover topics related to breeding, growing, and processing cannabis. Cultivation conditions, plant needs like lighting, care schedules, drying, and curing will...

An in-depth view of cannabis and its potential uses. This course will provide a comprehensive overview of cannabis and its applications and uses. Students will gain an understanding of various cannabis strains in addition to the differences and similarities between marijuana and hemp. Professions and...

Identify legal operations in the cannabis industry and investigate how research and development can advance cannabis science. Learn compliance and testing methods related to analytical chemistry and microbiology and its role in producing safe cannabis products for consumers. Learners will be introduced...

Learn to analyze events with intellectual rigor. Identify how reasoned decisions help cope with change. Making decisions in today's world, a world increasing in complexity, with broad changes and uncertainty, creates the need of approaches that allow us to discern the real problems and the causes that...

Explore the technology that can provide a long-term solution to protect our atmosphere from an excess of carbon dioxide, in the context of global energy, our use of fossil fuels, and climate change. The atmosphere is a shared resource and the amount of greenhouse gases it can absorb is a finite...

Think along with Classical Chinese masters as they explore and debate how and where we can find ethical guidance in nature. 与中国古代哲学大师们一道思索和讨论人类如何从自然界发现道德准则 We make ethical or behaviour guiding right / wrong judgments all the time but have you ever wondered where Ethics comes from, what it is about and...