Online education is significantly gaining popularity day by day among students of all ages. Around hundreds of universities and institutions have established partnership with Coursera, an education company that provides a platform to deliver online courses. Duke University also engages thousands of students from all over the world to provide online education with Coursera. In …
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Coursera’s Online Course Fundamentals of Global Energy Business
University of Colorado in collaboration with Coursera is starting a free online course “Fundamentals of Global Energy Business” under Global Energy Management Program. In this course an introduction to the business of primary energy production will be provided to the learner of this course. During the course student will learn about the nature of demand and …
Online Course on Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
“Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life” is the free online course starting by the UK Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Coursera. This course in collaboration with Coursera will teach about the origin and evolution of life and the search for life beyond the Earth. Astrobiology addresses undeniable questions of …
Gamification: Penn & Coursera Online Course
“Gamification” is the free online course offered by the University of Pennsylvania with collaboration to Coursera. Gamification is about absorbing the fun elements in a game, its mechanics or game techniques into real-world applications. It is the application of digital game design techniques to non-game problems, such as business and social impact challenges. The course is …
Coursera: An Academic Way to Global Village
Coursera is an education technology company founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller of Stanford University. Coursera believes in connecting people across the boundaries so that anyone can get education around the world. Their aim is to provide diverse and global education to the diverse people to improve their lives, the lives …
Fundamentals of Neurosciences: HarvardX Online Course
“Fundamentals of Neurosciences” is a free online course by the Harvard University through edX. The course will be taught by renowned professors from Harvard University. This course will help students to know about the complexity of the human mind. The course comprises of three parts that teaches about the structure and function of the nervous system …
Introduction to Finance: Coursera Online Course
University of Michigan is starting a free online course “Introduction to Finance” along with Coursera. The course will deal with fundamental methods and skills of finance which are vital for understanding valuation of any asset, personal or corporate. The concepts of time value of money and risk will be applied to understand the major determinants of …
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python: Rice University Online Course
Rice University along with Coursera is starting a free online course “An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python”. This course is an introduction to the basics of programming in Python. The main focus of the program will be on building simple interactive games such as Pong, Blackjack and Asteroids. Python is a high level programming …
MIT & edX Online Course: Introduction to Aerodynamics
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, United States. MIT with edX is starting free online course “Introduction to Aerodynamics”. MIT has five schools and one college including a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific, engineering and technological education and research. Aerodynamics is a branch of Dynamics which deals in study of …
Foundations of Computer Graphics: Online Course by UC Berkeley & edX
The University of California, Berkeley along with edX is starting a free online course “Foundations of Computer Graphics”. Berkeley is the oldest institution in the UC system and offers approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. This course on the Foundations of Computer Graphics covers its concepts of a particular software package. You …
Cryptography II: Stanford University Online Course with Coursera
Cryptography is the science of information security. It includes techniques such as microdots, merging words with images and other ways to hide information. Cryptography is used to protect e-mail messages, credit card information and corporate data. Cryptography, to most people is concerned with keeping communications private. Indeed, the protection of sensitive communications has been the emphasis of cryptography throughout much …
Stanford’s Online Course: Writing In The Sciences
Stanford’s Online Learning is a programme of Stanford University that provides education with OpenedX platform to students around the world by creativity and innovation in online learning. The OpenedX in the queue of online courses is providing a new free online course ‘Writing In The Sciences’. The course topic is ‘Medicine and Health’ which teaches scientists to become more effective …