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If you have a passion for penning pop hits, dream of dabbling in dubstep, or just want to jump in and jam, this is the course for you! No matter how much experience you have, join our learning community and start writing your own songs.

This is an interdisciplinary course that introduces students to the study of the Ozarks through the arts, humanities, media, and social sciences. The course will explore such issues as regional heritage, cultural adaptation, and the survival of regional and cultural identity and folkways through comparison of Ozarks people and places with other cultural groups and regions.

Parasitic worms are responsible for significant human disease. How do we get infected and more importantly how do we prevent infection? This course is for a global audience and will take the learner through the life stories of four fascinating parasites.

Technology use among children and adolescents is growing at an astronomical rate. For parents, keeping up with their children's use of technology can be a daunting challenge. The question then becomes, what can parents do to help kids use devices responsibility? When online, how can parents make sure their children are safe? What can parents do prevent the sharing of personally identifiable information? These are just a few of the questions this course will attempt to explore.

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) will prepare you to respond to life-threatening 
emergencies in the pediatric population with advanced interventions.

This course prepares student mentors in STEM for the critical role they will assume in improving the academic and social transition of their mentees.

Este curso es la introducción a la aplicación del pensamiento computacional en las situaciones habituales de nuestra vida y una invitación a encontrar aplicaciones innovadoras del mismo.

Personalized learning is a student-centered approach where learning is tailored to each individual’s needs, preferences, strengths, interests, and aspirations. As a result, you are afforded more adaptable and flexible pathways for learning that extend beyond the boundaries of a traditional classroom or office. In this MOOC, you will collaborate with other educators and professionals as we explore what personalized or student-centered learning is, and what it is not.

This course will examine a variety of philosophical arguments through the medium of film. It will consist of video lectures, readings, and lively discussion. Students will engage a wide range of exciting thinkers, issues, and movies with the goal of better understanding our world.

Whether you're a traditional, CG, or stop-motion animator, to create realistic motion, it's helpful to know some physics. This course presents the concepts that are most useful to character animation artists

Los estudiantes podrán comprender el papel del personalismo en la política del país, el de los militares como poder de facto, del factor petrolero como eje del sistema político, económico y social, y el del activismo internacional.

In spite of growing interest in analytics in education, most states / provinces / countries have not yet developed a systemic approach to learning analytics. Small-scale analytics projects in learning settings are helpful in advancing learning research, but do not provide the value of a systemic and strategic focus. Many interventions, such as alert systems, recommender systems, or student success systems, require cross-departmental and system-wide approaches. This online learning analytics symposium (#LAS13) will review how various institutions and regions around the world are planning and preparing for integrated and systems-wide learning analytics deployment.

Students often encounter grave difficulty in calculus if their algebraic knowledge is insufficient. This course is designed to provide students with algebraic knowledge needed for success in a typical calculus course. We explore a suite of functions used in calculus, including polynomials (with special emphasis on linear and quadratic functions), rational functions, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions. Along the way, basic strategies for solving equations and inequalities are reinforced, as are strategies for interpreting and manipulating a variety of algebraic expressions. Students enrolling in the course are expected to have good number sense and to have taken an intermediate algebra course.

For anyone interested in becoming a nurse, this course provides an overview of the profession. Participants will learn about areas of nursing specialization, the application process for nursing schools, and scholarship programs.

This is the first in a series of four courses aimed at helping students improve their scores on placement tests while preparing for college-level courses. This introductory course focuses on what to expect at the testing center.

This is the fourth in a series of four courses aimed at helping students improve their scores on placement tests while preparing for college-level courses. This course focuses on math skills.

This is the second in a series of four courses aimed at helping students improve their scores on placement tests while preparing for college-level courses. This course focuses on reading skills.

This is the third in a series of four courses aimed at helping students improve their scores on placement tests while preparing for college-level courses. This course focuses on writing skills.

Delivering an engaging presentation in a global workplace with ease and confidence involves anticipating audience needs, communicating verbally and nonverbally, and being culturally aware. This competency helps you develop skills to connect with, and meet the expectations of, a global audience.

Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry is earned through the assessment of learning acquired from life and work experiences. This course will explore CPL theories, service delivery models, policy development steps, college and industry articulation development, portfolio development and assessment, and existing credit crosswalks and available assessment resources.