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Introduction to Sustainability, this course introduces the academic discipline of sustainability and explores how today's human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. About the course The course focuses on key ...

Nerves, the heart, and the brain are electrical. How do these things work? This course presents fundamental principles, described quantitatively. Duke University offers this online course. About the course:In this class you will learn how to think ...

This course explores how teachers can capitalize on what students bring to the classroom - their ideas, perceptions, and misunderstandings - to advance the learning of all students in the class, a practice we call "leveraging student thinking". ...

Structure Standing Still: The Statics of Everyday Objects is a course about how structures react to forces exerted on them while remaining unmoved. About the course From suspension bridges holding up miles of roadway, to sky-scraping buildings in ...

Understanding Research: An Overview for Health Professionals is an online course conducted by the University of California San Francisco. Participants of this course will learn the elements of research methods and design that are essential to the translation of ...

Personal and Family Financial Planning will address many critical personal financial management topics in order to help you learn prudent habits both while in school and throughout your lifetime. About the course:This course is activity-based with emphasis on your life ...

Discover the power of solar energy and design a complete photovoltaic system. Course Name: Solar Energy Offering institute: Delft University of Technology About the course:This second edition of the course Solar Energy teaches you to design ...

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology offers online course on Acoustics. Learn about acoustics by using the concept of impedance. Wave propagation in closed space is also covered in this course. Leads to understand essentials as well to ...

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health gives online course on Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 2, which is a part of the "Data Science" Specialization. This course deals with learning the fundamental concepts in data analysis and statistical inference, ...

Learn how to identify symmetrical forms and appreciate their importance in nature, art, architecture, crystallography and technology. Understand symmetry quantitatively, recognize its role in beauty and design, and appreciate its function in our everyday life. Course name: Beauty, ...

An 11-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of analytical theory pertaining to video game media. Topics covered: play and game, emergence versus progression, game mechanics, story, interpretive theory, the culture of games, violence and race in games, and ...

Rhetorical Composing engages students in a series of interactive reading, research, and composing activities along with assignments designed to help them become more effective consumers and producers of alphabetic, visual and multimodal texts. Join this course to become more ...

In this course, students will learn how to formalize information and reason systematically to produce logical conclusions. About the course This course shows how to reason systematically with this information to produce all logical conclusions and only ...

Mechanics is the basis of much of physics, engineering and other technological disciplines. It begins by quantifying motion, and then explaining it in terms of forces, energy, momentum and forces including gravity. This course allows to analyse the operation ...