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The Creating an Analytical Dataset course provides students with foundational knowledge to input, clean, blend, and format data in preparation for analysis. You will learn:

Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in high technology companies and management. He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Graduate School of Engineering. In this free online course he goes through a checklist of questions and answers that will be helpful to any new business leader. He offers insights and case studies from industry and new technology companies. He focuses on important areas for business start-ups including market opportunity, market regulations and distribution, competitors and complimentors, and technology breakthroughs. You will learn why sometimes being the first and only company in a particular market can actually be a disadvantage. He discusses the difference between vertical markets and horizontal markets, and you will also learn why market and technical risks are of great importance for an entrepreneurial venture. This course will be of interest to business people, entrepreneurs and anyone who would like to hear key insights and knowledge gained by a very successful entrepreneur with years of experience in business start-ups and management.<br />

This course is designed to provide executives, managers, and supervisors the knowledge and tools to create and sustain an ethical culture in their company, department, or work group.

Learn how to make an custom Mp3 player with Adobe Flash CS5 Professional, Flash Builder or Flex

Use HTML5, CSS Javascript and XML to create a fully functional MP3 Player

During this four week course, instructors will learn how to create and teach an exciting new type of developmental math course known as a pathways course. These courses (e.g., Math Literacy for College Students, Quantway

Guy Kawasaki is best known as “chief evangelist” of Apple. In this free online course he gives important lessons about entrepreneurship. He explains why he thinks that the most successful companies will be those that aim to create a positive change in society. He explains how to make meaning in your company so that you can make a difference. You will learn about mantras, getting going, defining a business model and creating a niche for your company. He also recommends that you hire “infected” people, people who love the product or service. You will also learn about lowering barriers to adoption, approaching sales and how to become a “mensch”. He discusses how to find evangelists and soul mates and what is the career path to becoming an entrepreneur or venture capitalist. This course will be of great interest to all business professionals or budding entrepreneurs who are interested in starting up a business and would like to hear advice and guidance from someone who has already done it successfully but who has also been very close to extraordinary achievement in the area of the growth of high technology businesses.<br />

A comprehensive guide for instructors, course designers, and others who are creating an online course for the first time.

If you struggle to keep your English language students engaged and focused on learning, this course is for you. It covers four key methods for encouraging student engagement and deeper learning.

Pure Data is a popular dataflow programming environment for creative applications in audio, visuals and interaction. As an open source visual programming language, it is accessible to beginners, but it also offers a wide array of tools for experienced digital artists.

This course provides an introduction to the core programming skills required to design and build audio applications in Pure Data. Using synthesis, sampling, and signal processing techniques, users will learn to create unique and original devices and systems for music composition and performance. Throughout the course, we will review the fundamental objects available in Pure Data, and how to patch them together to implement standard audio techniques. We will also go over various best practices to help you organize your patches efficiently, and improve your workflow. Finally, we will put it all together in creative projects that will help you integrate what we have learned in your own art making. This introductory course will reveal that Pure Data is an ideal programming environment for creative purposes thanks to its built-in data processing and user interface tools.

Learn How To Create IOS Apps And Never Do A Hard Days Work Again.Zero Coding Needed in this ios app development tutorial

Janice Fraser is CEO and co-founder of Adaptive Path, an experience design consultancy firm based in San Francisco, California and Austin, Texas. Janice is an experienced entrepreneur and in this free online course she talks in detail about how important the culture of a business is for the success of that business. She emphasises that a productive culture is one where managers create meaning for their employees. By promoting a business culture that employees can buy into they will become more motivated and work more passionately to make the business a success. Janice believes that alignment is the key factor underlying everything we do. In a business alignment means that employees are doing fulfilling work which they excel at. This course will be of great interest to all business professionals and managers who would like to gain advice and guidance about creating a successful business culture which has meaning for all employees.<br />

Developing a database can include the creation of programmatic database objects. These objects encapsulate different types of functionality inside your database. In this computer science course, you'll learn about the types of programmatic database objects, how to create stored procedures, triggers, user-defined functions, and advanced topics including implementing managed code, and using the R programming language.

This course is part of the Microsoft SQL Database Development XSeries.

Do you have a dream for an online course you have been meaning to develop? If you can dream it, you can build it! The goal of this course is help you look at the course design process from a different perspective using a backwards design approach to address your specific disciplinary needs. This 8-week course is designed for instructors, graduate students, and instructional designers regardless of their level of online teaching experience. Students will be guided through a practical process of designing online instruction or redesigning current instruction. You will design the structure of an online course, build active and engaging teaching and learning activities, and learn strategies for developing online community. The content of this course will include learning how to write measurable objectives, designing teaching and learning activities, and facilitating online community and evaluating your online course.

A production course geared to performers, choreographers, and other artists interested in producing site-specific work. Through three assignments, students will have the opportunity to plan and conceptualize a site-specific work.

This course helps innovators, managers and entrepreneurs to create valuable innovations. By using the structured approach offered to you in the course, win-win situations can be created for the organisation and their customers.

VideoX is an introduction to the video creation process for edX.org. This course is part of the edX Course Creator XSeries and should be taken after completing StudioX.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• identify best practices for video production and implement them in your edX course,
• recognize common pitfalls in the video production process and determine how to avoid such difficulties,
• train your instructor on edX best practices, including edX course segmentation and how to present content on-camera,
• create an effective plan for video production that accounts for time, resources and your production team's abilities,
• identify the main recording methods used in video production, understand what each method involves (in terms of technical, physical and logistical considerations) and employ them to create high-quality, impactful videos,
• utilize non-linear editing systems to manipulate your raw footage and incorporate graphics, animations and third-party media to produce polished video segments,
• describe the editing process from start to finish,
• encode your finished videos, upload them to edX and incorporate them into your course, and
• how to work with instructors - segmentation and how to talk to the camera

VideoX is a course for everyone and does not require any previous experience in video production. So what are you waiting for? Get started today!

CMS.611J / 6.073 Creating Video Games is a class that introduces students to the complexities of working in small, multidisciplinary teams to develop video games. Students will learn creative design and production methods, working together in small teams to design, develop, and thoroughly test their own original digital games. Design iteration across all aspects of video game development (game design, audio design, visual aesthetics, fiction and programming) will be stressed. Students will also be required to focus test their games, and will need to support and challenge their game design decisions with appropriate focus testing and data analysis.

CMS.611J / 6.073 Creating Video Games is a class that introduces students to the complexities of working in small, multidisciplinary teams to develop video games. Students will learn creative design and production methods, working together in small teams to design, develop, and thoroughly test their own original digital games. Design iteration across all aspects of video game development (game design, audio design, visual aesthetics, fiction and programming) will be stressed. Students will also be required to focus test their games, and will need to support and challenge their game design decisions with appropriate focus testing and data analysis.

You and your kids can easily learn how to make a side scrolling space "shoot-em-up" for your Mac.