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This course provides an introduction to causal and statistical reasoning. After taking this course, students will be better prepared to make rational decisions about their own lives and about matters of social policy. They will be able to assess criticallyeven if informallyclaims that they encounter during discussions or when considering a news article or report. A variety of materials are presented, including Case Studies where students are given the opportunity to examine a causal claim, and the Causality Lab, a virtual environment to simulate the science of causal discovery. Students have frequent opportunities to check their understanding and practice their skills. This course is meant to serve students in several situations. One, it is meant for students who will only take one such research methods course, and are interested in gaining basic skills that will help them to think critically about claims they come across in their daily lives, such as through a news article. Two, it is meant for students who will take a few statistics courses in service of a related field of study. Three, it is meant for students interested in the foundations of quantitative causal models: called Bayes Networks.
This course presents material in discrete mathematics and computation theory with a strong emphasis on practical algorithms and experiential learning. Discrete mathematics, also called finite mathematics or decision mathematics, is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete in the sense of not supporting or requiring the notion of continuity. Objects studied in finite mathematics are largely countable sets such as integers, finite graphs, and formal languages. Concepts and notations from discrete mathematics are useful to study or describe objects or problems in computer algorithms and programming languages. The CDM course is currently under development and we are making the course available while it is under development. Only one of the planned fifteen modules is currently available. The module on Groups that is currently available would appear mid-way through the complete course.
In this course you will learn how to conduct research using empirical methods, which rely on observation and experimentation. This course is appropriate for those interested in using empirical research methods in their field, particularly students in the social and behavioral sciences. Topics include the formulation of the question to be investigated and the of resulting hypotheses, the collection of data and the analysis of the data collected, and the interpretation and study of analysis results. We assume that learners entering Empirical Research Methods (ERM) have taken at least a semester or year-long course in statistics and, through this or some other experience, have been exposed to the following concepts: Random Variables Population and Samples Data Tables (rows=sample units and columns=variables) Summary Statistics: Mean, Median, Variance, Covariance, Correlation Graphs: Boxplots, Barcharts, Histograms, Scatterplots Inference: standard errors, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, etc. Models: Bivariate Regression, perhaps ANOVA If learners have not had such exposure, they can follow the appropriate links into the OLI introductory statistics course to review the required concepts.
This course teaches the core principles of economics using a collection of experiments and workbooks. In the experiments, students become traders in a market and attempt to make profitable deals with one another. At the conclusion of the experiment, the data are used to form a customized, online workbook. Each workbook guides the student through the analysis of the experiment’s outcome, while simultaneously presenting the key ideas and core principles in economics needed to gain a deeper understanding of both the experiment and economic life. In these experiments the student is both a participant and an observer. As a participant, the student experiences first hand the issues that all economic agents must confront; as an observer, the student sees how modern economic theory can explain the complex interactions that occur in both the experiments, and the economic world at large. Students often report that they learn nearly as much about economic principles from their experience as a participant as they do from their analysis of the experiment as an observer. Students learning on their own or in small classes (generally fewer than 10 students) can still use the workbooks, but will be given synthetic data. Small numbers of students participating in experiments does not yield enough data for the workbooks.
This course offers an overview of healthcare, health information technology, and health information management systems. The focus is on the role and responsibilities of entry-level health IT specialists in each phase of the health information management systems lifecycle. The curriculum is aligned to the new Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CAHIMS) [1] certification administered by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. This certificate is designed for students who have previous experience in IT or healthcare and it is designed to serve as a pathway into health IT careers. This course is a collaborative effort of TAACCCT grantees, in particular Bellevue Colleges and MoHealthWINs. The collaborative partners supporting the development of this course are Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Applied Science and Technology (CAST), and Creative Commons (CC)- all funded through the Gates foundation OPEN Grant. The core development team includes content experts, learning scientists, software developers, instructional designers, universal design for learning experts and instructional technologists. [1] http://www.himss.org/health-it-certification/cahims?navItemNumber=13646
This introductory Spanish course consists of 23 video sequences distributed in 20 chapters. The sequences show real communicative situations in different contexts so that you can gain a practical and useful understanding of the Spanish Language. Each chapter follows the same structure: introductory stage, observation stage (language and communication), exercises and self-assessment. The course applies an immersive approach, giving you the content in Spanish from the start. It may be overwhelming at first, but it is also one of the fastest ways to learn a language - we invite you to jump right in and have fun!
The course includes the following topics:
- En contacto con el Español.
- Gente que conocemos.
- El entorno. Ciudades y barrios.
- Actividad social: comidas y bebidas.
- Hábitos para el tiempo libre.
Learning Objectives
This course aims to:
- turn the learning of Spanish into a ludic and playful experience.
- solve different actual situations of everyday life in a practical way in order to help the student acquire a basic but fluent communicative competence.
What do I need to know?
No prior knowledge is required. You should only come with a willingness to challenge yourself and explore a new language.
Course Content
Everyday vocabulary • Names and greetings • Origins and nationality • Public transport • Describing people, family and friends • Locations • Common adjectives • Activities Basic phrases and conversation • Asking how someone is doing • Talking about hobbies and interests • Asking for directions • Talking about food and drink • Asking the time/quantities • Ordering in a restaurant • Talking about the weather • Making judgements Phonetics • Pronunciation • Sound Grammar • Tenses & sentence construction • Nouns and pronouns • Regular and irregular verbs • Adjectives and adverbs • Prepositions • Comparatives & superlatives Interrogative Elements • What? • Why? • Where? • How? • How many?And much more...
We invite you to access one of the most widely spoken languages in the world:
Der Kurs zeichnet die Geschichte Karls des Großen nach. Sein Aufstieg, die innere Durchsetzung, die Expansion des Reiches bis zur Kaiserkrönung sind Kernthemen der Geschichtswissenschaft. Weitere Themenfelder sind: Strukturen des Reiches, Funktionsweisen mittelalterlicher Königsherrschaft ohne Hauptstadt und Institutionen, Schriftlichkeit, Kommunikation und Bildung im frühen Mittelalter. In diesem Kurs erhältst du eine Einführung in den Umgang mit mittelalterlichen Quellen und ihrer Deutung. zudem soll der dich zu einem fundierten, kritischen Urteil in aktuellen Fragen befähigen: Wie gelangt man zu methodisch korrekten Erkenntnissen und wie lassen sich so unterschiedliche Karlsbilder bewerten?
Was lerne ich in diesem Kurs?
- Du lernst Hintergrundinformationen zur Geschichte Karls des Großen.
- Du lernst die typische Quellen seiner Zeit kennen und wirst mit den Schwierigkeiten ihrer Interpretation vertraut gemacht.
- Du erhältst Einführungen in typische geschichtswissenschaftliche Fragestellungen und Forschungsinstrumente. Das befähigt dich zu selbständigen Recherchen über Fragen des Kurses - und viele andere Fragen, die sich an die Geschichte des Mittelalters stellen lassen.
Welche Vorkenntnisse benötige ich?
Historische Vorkenntnisse oder propädeutische Grundlagen sind nicht erforderlich. Der Kurs richtet sich neben Studierenden der Geschichte auch an ein ein breiteres, geschichtsinteressiertes Publikum. Inhalte und Umgang mit Instrumenten der Forschung werden schrittweise erläutert. Zentrale Quellen werden in deutschen Übersetzungen präsentiert. Lateinkenntnisse sind also nicht erforderlich. Unverzichtbar ist: Interesse an Geschichte als Wissenschaft!
Wie hoch ist der Arbeitsaufwand?
Ca. 4 Stunden pro Woche.
Erhalte ich ein Zertifikat?
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A formação em desenho consiste numa das matérias mais aliciantes da capacidade expressiva do ser humano. O deslumbramento sobre uma linguagem completa de técnica, de perceções sensoriais e persistência.
Ao longo do presente curso os alunos encontrarão alguns dos princípios sugeridos para a iniciação a um diário gráfico pessoal, numa linguagem a conquistar em cada desafio proposto.
Os desenhos são livremente registados em processo analógico de forma livre mas alicerçados a conteúdos subsequentes, somando competências ao longo dos diferentes exercícios.
Mais do que saber desenhar virtuosamente, procura-se dar a conhecer a confiança de desenhar livremente, sem pré conceitos e caminhando para um registo individual, único.
Objetivos de aprendizagem
O curso tem por objetivo principal o ensino de técnicas de composição aplicadas ao desenho. Serão exploradas diferentes abordagens de desenho com a aplicação de diferentes técnicas e materiais.
Como material de suporte serão usados cadernos para Diário Gráfico de formato A4 e A5. Serão exploradas técnicas alternativas de desenho para Diário Gráfico como por exemplo o uso de café e lápis e canetas aguareláveis. Serão exploradas técnicas bidimensionais e tridimensionais, a criação de volume e o uso de perspetiva.
O curso segue uma metodologia baseada no experimentar fazer. O modelo pedagógico do curso foi definido com o intuito de derrubar as barreiras iniciais ao desenho e os medos associados ao “gostava mas não sei”. Os diferentes exercícios apresentados em vídeo em tempo real de produção do desenho permitem uma maior compreensão do desenho enquanto aplicação de técnicas aprendíveis e não como fruto de um “dom” que só poucos têm. Desafiamos todos os que gostariam de desenhar a participar neste curso.
Requisitos
O curso de Desenho para Diário Gráfico não tem pré-requisitos. Partimos do princípio que todas as pessoas podem aprender a desenhar se assim o quiserem. Deste modo, o curso destina-se a todos os interessados em aprender as técnicas e regras mais comuns aplicadas ao desenho para diários gráficos.
Alunos têm ainda a possibilidade de comprar o Statement of Participation (no valor de 29€). Aqueles que comprarem o Statement of Participation, devem completar no mínimo 80% do curso (exercícios, vídeos e quizzes) para poderem fazer download do Statement of Participation.
Estrutura do curso
A matéria divide-se metodologicamente em quatro partes:
- Introdução;
- Codificação do Campo visual;
- Codificação expressiva;
- e aplicabilidade em desenho de exterior.
Os desafios são compostos por uma contextualização em vídeo e por materiais didáticos complementares.
Course Summary
In this second part of Vehicle Dynamics, we will illuminate the lateral dynamic aspects of vehicles.
Clear and brief: the cornering of a car.
In Detail: We will start with a simple single-track model and then describe the slip angle of a wheel. The slip angle results in cornering forces, which are essential for understanding lateral dynamics. After that, we will look at the dependency between longitudinal and lateral forces using Kamm’s circle and Krempel’s diagram. Then we will investigate steady state cornering, stability and the influence of different weight distributions between inner and outer side wheels of the car. The course will finish with two applications from automotive mechatronics.
What will I learn?
At the end of the course you will …
- understand basic principles of cornering of a car.
- know slip angle and cornering forces.
- understand the single track model.
- understand the steady state cornering, stability and the influence of different weight distribution between inner and outer side of the car.
- be able to calculate simple properties of a car.
What do I have to know?
Some basic understanding of the following subjects will help you successfully participate in this course:
Algebra; Trigonometric Functions; Differential Calculus; Linear Algebra; Vectors; Coordinate Systems; Force, Torque, Equilibrium; Mass, Center of Gravity, Moment of Inertia; Method of Sections, Friction, Newton's Law, (Lagrange's Equation)
Course structure
This course has a total of 10 chapters, and the topics for each chapter are the following:
Chapter 1: Preliminaries
Chapter 2: Single-Track Model
Chapter 3: Tyre side slip
Chapter 4: Steady state cornering
Chapter 5: Solution of linear single track model
Chapter 6: Stability and step steer
Chapter 7: Wheelload transfer
Chapter 8: Suspension systems
Chapter 9: Active lateral systems
Chapter 10: Solutions Homework: Part 1
Chapter 11: Solutions Homework: Part 2
Course Summary
This MOOC is an introduction in Critical Thinking, with an emphasis on using reason in our daily communication. Its main topics cover the structure and analysis of arguments, the study of inductive reasoning as basis for scientific knowledge and as key ingredient in how we understand reality. Next we will focus on fallacies (like loaded question or hasty generalization) and on guidelines for structuring a presentation, an argumentative essay or a debate. Furthermore, the course gives you an overview of cognitive biases (a fashionable topic nowadays), and on the use of emotional tools in persuasion. The teaching is accompanied by tons of documented experiments and fun examples, guided practice, quizzes, links to additional materials (like TED talks) and short homework.
What do I learn?
After taking this course you will have the tools to analyze the truth of all kinds of statements, from opinion articles to court verdicts and investment proposals. You will better understand the philosophical basis of human knowledge, also you will be more persuasive in domestic talks as well as in good structured presentations, debates or argumentative essays. Furthermore, a main goal of this course is that you will be able to recognize and refute the most common fallacies (reasoning errors), and understand irrational behavior.
What do I need to know?
No prior knowledge is needed for this course, participants should only come equipped with natural curiosity and a respect for the truth.
Course Structure
Chapter & Topic
Chapter 1:
Course Summary
The MOOC ‘Idea Generation Methods’ aims to explain techniques for the goal and process oriented generation of ideas. Idea generation is part of the fuzzy front end of the innovation process. Participants have the possibility to work on specific innovation topics in the area of sustainable energy. Dr. Daniel J. Koch will impart a broadly diversified knowledge of the methods used in idea generation and he will show you how you can use them by your own.
The MOOC is offered by KIC InnoEnergy, the European company for innovation, business creation and education in sustainable energy and was produced by the Center for Technology-Enhanced Learning (ZML) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
The course language is English, and the workload is about 4h/week.
The aim of the course is to enable participants to apply methods of idea generation on their own project.
Who is this course for?
Everyone who is curios in Idea Generation Methods and who is having an interesting topic which could be further developed.
What will I learn?
Participants will be able to understand and apply certain methods of idea generation on any self-chosen topic. For example, participants will understand and will be able to apply methods like Mindmapping & Clustering, 6-3-5, World Cafe & DeBono Hats, Concept Mapping, Scenario Techniques ( e.g. STEEP), Roadmapping and many more in a structured process.
What do I need to know?
No prior knowledge is necessary. You just need to be curious about Idea Generation Methods and have an interesting topic you would like to develop further.
Course Structure
The course consists of 7 chapters:
Chapter 1 - Introduction:
The sketch in your head! Strategic Innovation Management, Idea Generation Process, Innovation Process and fuzzy front end
Chapter 2 - Design Factors:
What's in your picture? Design Aspects, Methods, Sources
Chapter 3 - Defining your Search Space:
Landscape or portrait? Context Definition, Agenda Setting, Problem Representation
Chapter 4 - Scenario:
What's my perspective? Definition of Scenario Topic, STEEP / PESTEL Analysis, Influence Factors and Descriptors
Chapter 5 - Future Assumptions:
Using watercolour or oil? Present Situation and Future Assumptions, Bundling Projection, Interpretation of Scenario, Wild Cards, SWOT, Proposals for Action
Chapter 6 - Scenario-based Roadmapping:
What to draw when? Definition of a Roadmapping Topic, Needs Analysis, Analysis of Potentials
Chapter 7 - Establishing your roadmap:
Sketching your picture! Establishing a Roadmap, Consistency Analysis and Evaluation
Kursbeschreibung
Die Deadline für einen wichtigen Auftrag rückt immer näher oder es gilt eine schwierige Pflichtklausur im Studium zu meistern. Eigentlich sollten Sie bereits lernen oder arbeiten, doch jeden Tag schaffen Sie es, sich mit anderen „wichtigen“ Aufgaben wie Putzen oder Internetsurfen zu beschäftigen. Doch die Zeit wird knapper und der Druck immer größer…
Prokrastination oder „Aufschieberitis“ ist ein Alltagsphänomen, das den meisten Menschen bekannt sein dürfte: Unangenehme Tätigkeiten werden lieber erst einmal aufgeschoben, anstatt sie sofort zu erledigen. In acht Wochen vermitteln wir in diesem MOOC die wissenschaftlichen Hintergründe und bieten Unterstützung, das eigene Verhalten zu reflektieren und zu ändern!
Für wen ist dieser Kurs gedacht?
Dieser MOOC richtet sich an Personen, die daran interessiert sind ihre Selbstregulationsfähigkeiten zu verbessern, um sich in Zukunft ein effizienteres Vorgehen in Studium und Beruf zu erarbeiten. Der Kurs zielt nicht nur auf Wissensvermittlung ab, sondern möchte Ihnen auch dabei helfen, Ihr Verhalten zu verändern! Am Ende des Kurses sollten Sie in der Lage sein, diejenigen Strategien in Ihrem Alltag anzuwenden, welche sich für Sie als besonders erfolgsversprechend zeigen.
Was lerne ich in diesem Kurs?
Am Ende des Kurse
- kennen Sie die wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Hintergründe zum Thema Prokrastination (Modelle & Theorien)
- kennen Sie die Konzepte der Selbstkontrolle und Selbstregulation und können diese voneinander abgrenzen
- sind Sie mit verschiedenen Strategien aus den Bereichen Selbstkontrolle (Planungsfähigkeit, Zielkontrolle, Arbeitsplatzgestaltung, Startkontrolle, Impulskontrolle) und Selbstregulation (Emotionsregulation, Selbstmotivierung, Umgang mit Ablenkungen, Selbstberuhigung und -aktivierung) vertraut und können diese einsetzen
Welche Vorkenntnisse benötige ich?
Keine – Sie sollten aber natürlich schon Probleme mit dem Aufschieben haben und daran etwas ändern wollen! Wenn Sie Fallschirmspringen wollen, besuchen Sie ja auch keinen Kochkurs, oder? ;-) Allerdings sollten Sie eine gewisse Bereitschaft zur Reflexion des eigenen Verhaltens mitbringen, denn nur wenn Sie sich damit auseinandersetzen, werden Sie die Aufschieberitis in den Griff bekommen!
Kurs Struktur
Kapitel 1 Willkommen: Schön, dass Sie mit dabei sind! In der ersten Kurswoche möchten wir Sie mit dem Phänomen der Aufschieberitis vertraut machen. Wir erläutern Ihnen die unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen von Aufschiebeverhalten und geben einen ersten Überblick darüber, was Sie in den kommenden Wochen erwartet. Außerdem haben Sie die Möglichkeit Ihr individuelles Prokrastinationsprofil zu ermitteln.
Kapitel 2 Volition & Motivation: Nach einem ersten Überblick steigen wir nun tiefer in die Theorie zur Prokrastination ein. Welche Modelle, Theorien und Erklärungsansätze gibt es? Ist alles nur eine Frage der Motivation? Außerdem erfahren Sie alles zum Unterschied zwischen Selbstregulation und Selbstkontrolle, denn dieser Logik folgt auch der Aufbau des Trainings.
Kapitel 3 Grundlagen der Selbstkontrolle: Genug mit Theorie, nun geht es in die Praxis und wir beginnen mit den Grundlagen der Selbstkontrolle. Hierbei handelt es sich um grundsätzliche Schritte zur Vorbereitung auf die im nächsten Kapitel folgenden Strategien. Konkret geht es bei den Grundlagen zur Selbstkontrolle um Zeitmanagement und den Umgang mit komplexen Zielen und Aufgaben.
Kapitel 4 Strategien der Selbstkontrolle: Diese Woche steht ganz im Zeichen der Selbstkontrolltechniken. Wir behandeln die Themen Planungsfähigkeit (Gesamtplanung, Tagesplanung, Planung einer Arbeitseinheit), Zielkontrolle (wie behalten Sie das Ziel im Auge), Arbeitsplatzgestaltung, das pünktliche Beginnen sowie die Impulskontrolle.
Kapitel 5 Grundlagen der Selbstregulation: Ebenso wie zuvor bei der Selbstkontrolle wenden wir uns nun zuerst wieder den Grundlagen zu, diesmal jenen der Selbstregulation. Das Stichwort lautet hier "Selbstwahrnehmung", denn bevor wir uns aktiv regulieren, müssen wir zunächst einmal feststellen wie unser aktueller Zustand ist. In diesem Kapitel geht es primär um die Wahrnehmung von Emotionen, Zielen, Motiven und Bedürfnissen.
Kapitel 6 Strategien der Selbstregulation I: Da die Strategien zur Selbstregulation recht umfangreich und etwas komplexer sind, erwarten Sie gleich zwei Kapitel zu diesem Thema. Im ersten Teil erläutern wir Ihnen verschiedene Techniken zur Aufmerksamkeitslenkung bzw. dem Umgang mit Ablenkungen. Außerdem stellen wir Ihnen 7 Strategien zur Selbstmotivierung vor.
Kapitel 7 Strategien der Selbstregulation II: Wie angekündigt nun Teil II mit Strategien zur Emotionsregulation sowie Techniken zu Selbstberuhigung und -aktivierung. Sie erfahren wie Sie mit negativen Emotionen umgehen und was Sie aktiv dagegen tun können wenn Sie entweder zu müde oder zu angespannt für Ihre anstehenden Aufgaben sind. Außerdem möchten wir Ihnen ein paar Tipps zum Umgang mit Erfolg und Misserfolg mit auf den Weg geben.
Kapitel 8 Abschluss: Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Sie haben es geschafft! Schade dass wir uns schon von Ihnen verabschieden müssen. Abschließend haben Sie nun die Möglichkeit, erneut Ihr Prokrastinationsprofil zu erstellen. Nun können Sie anhand Ihrer Werte zu Beginn ermitteln, in welchen Punkten Sie sich verbessert haben oder wo evtl. noch Trainingsbedarf besteht.
Wer 80% der Lehrvideos sowie 80% der Quizzes absolviert, erhält eine kostenfreie Teilnahmebestätigung.
E' possibile studiare l'intero corso in pochi giorni: il test iniziale di ogni capitolo vi permette di capire su quali argomenti concentrarvi. L'intero corso sarà attivato nello stesso momento, e tutti i materiali saranno disponibili da subito. In questo modo gli iscritti potranno studiare seguendo il loro ritmo e focalizzare l'impegno per rafforzare i propri punti deboli.
Inoltre, per chi si registra al corso durante il periodo di apertura, tutti i materiali resteranno disponibili per ulteriori 6 mesi dopo la chiusura del corso stesso.
Riassunto del corso
Il corso consiste in un ripasso delle nozioni di Matematica di base viste nelle Scuole Superiori: insiemi, funzioni, grafici, numeri reali, equazioni e disequazioni, elementi di geometria piana, polinomi, funzioni esponenziali e logaritmi, trigonometria.
Obiettivi formativi
Fornire la preparazione per seguire con tranquillità i corsi di matematica al primo anno di Università.
Conoscenze richieste
L’algebra e la geometria di base delle scuole superiori.
Struttura del corso
L'intero corso sarà attivato nello stesso momento, e tutti i materiali saranno disponibili da subito. In questo modo gli iscritti potranno studiare seguendo il loro ritmo e focalizzare l'impegno per rafforzare i propri punti deboli.
All'inizio di ogni capitolo, ci sarà in quiz per la valutazione del proprio livello. In questo modo è possibile vedere da subito quali sono le proprie lacune e decidere se seguire tutte (o in parte) le video lezioni seguenti.
Capitoli:
Nozioni di base. Insiemi, prodotto cartesiano. Funzioni.
Geometria analitica del piano. Coordinate cartesiane. Grafici di funzioni e simmetrie. La retta. Il cerchio.
Polinomi. Monomi, polinomi, divisione tra polinomi, frazioni di polinomi.
Numeri reali. Numeri reali, valore assoluto, radici di numeri positivi.
Equazioni. Equazioni di primo e secondo grado, equazioni di ordine superiore a 2.
Sistemi di equazioni. Sistemi lineari. Sistemi di primo e secondo grado. Interpretazione grafica.
Disequazioni. Disequazioni di I grado. La regola del prodotto dei segni. Disequazioni di secondo grado. Disequazioni varie (fratte, con modulo/radici).
Esponenziali e logaritmi. Esponenziali. Logaritmi. Applicazione: equazioni e disequazioni con logaritmi/esponenziali.
Trigonometria 1. Le funzioni trigonometriche. Formule di addizione e sottrazione. Formule di prostaferesi.
Trigonometria 2. Funzioni trigonometriche inverse. Equazioni e disequazioni trigonometriche.
Università degli Studi di Padova
Fondata nel 1222, l'Università degli Studi di Padova è una delle più antiche e più prestigiose istituzioni accademiche europee. È un'università multidisciplinare che cerca di fornire ai suoi studenti sia un efficace training professionale, sia un solido background culturale. Un titolo di studio acquisito all'Università di Padova è un obiettivo ambizioso, riconosciuto e ricercato sia da studenti sia dal mondo delle imprese.
Se volete sapere di più sull'Univeristà di Padova, visitate il sito web all'indirizzo: http://www.unipd.it
Dipartimento di Matematica
Il Dipartimento di Matematica (DM) è il principale riferimento dell'Ateneo per la matematica sia sul piano della ricerca che su quello della didattica, e ospita al suo interno un gruppo di informatica numericamente limitato, ma di grande valore scientifico. La ricerca spazia in tutti gli ambiti della matematica, della matematica applicata e dell’informatica, proseguendo un'illustre tradizione testimoniata dalla considerazione della comunità scientifica internazionale e recentemente confermata dall’esito della prima Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR).
Grazie all’impegno di 63 professori di area matematica, 11 di area informatica e 32 ricercatori, è il dipartimento di riferimento per i Corsi di Laurea di primo e secondo livello in Matematica ed in Informatica; inoltre coordina e parzialmente impartisce gli insegnamenti di matematica in più di 30 Corsi di Studio dell’Ateneo, nei quali la matematica costituisce uno strumento di base nonché una parte fondamentale della formazione scientifica.
Un compito importante del DM è anche la formazione alla ricerca dei giovani. Il DM persegue questo obiettivo ospitando il Corso di Dottorato in Scienze Matematiche e collaborando al Curriculum in Computer Science for societal challenges and innovation del Corso di Dottorato in Brain, Mind and Computer Science.
Maggiori informazioni su sito web http://www.math.unipd.it
Prototyping is a skill every designer should master because it's the most effective, fast and often cheapest way to make your ideas tangible and tested. In this course, you'll learn to think through and make your design a better experience for your users by sketching, experimenting, creating and testing.
In this six week course, you will be working on a prototype for a concept you’ll develop in the first weeks involving a mobile device. You will explore different types of prototyping, from paper prototypes to a digital prototype and eventually even a physical prototype.
In a world where we have to deal with new technologies on a daily basis, the prototyping process will help you understand the user and the way he or she interacts with these new and existing technologies. Understanding and executing this process will make your design stronger and more valuable to the end user.
What will I learn?
By the end of the course, you know how to incorporate prototyping interaction in your design process. This will not only make your design process more effective, it will also help you gain new insights about the user and the way he or she interacts with your product or service.
What do I need to know?
No prior knowledge is required, but some practical experience in UX design, interaction design and design principles is recommended since the course is covering prototyping for user experience for mobile devices but also physical prototyping. For this you might need a physical prototyping tool (e.g. a Makey Makey, an Arduino or a Touchboard) prior to, or during the course, if you want fully participate in the course exercises.
Course Structure
1. Start it: defining the design challenge & generating an idea
In this chapter, we will explain what design challenge you will be working on for the next six weeks.
Topics: introduction to prototyping interaction, research, idea generation and experience prototyping
Workshop: storyboarding
2. Sketch it: visualizing & paper prototyping
Visualise your idea by sketching and paper prototyping.
Topics: sketching interfaces and paper prototyping
Workshop: paper prototyping
3. Fake it: digital prototyping & tools
Use digital prototyping tools to make your prototype interactive.
Topics: digital prototyping, tools, transitions & gestures, connectivity
Workshop: digital tools
4. Test it: testing with digital prototypes
Testing you digital prototype and iterate on your design.
Topics: user centred design, usability testing
Workshop: testing
5. Make it: physical prototyping
Make a physical object or a maquette, anything that will help you translate your idea from your screen to the physical world.
Topic: model making, rapid prototyping
Workshop: modeling
6. Activate it: making it interactive
Experimenting with your design and test it using your physical prototype.
Topics: Internet of things, hacking stuff, interactive toolkits
Workshop: interactive tools
Course Summary
In this first part of Vehicle Dynamics, we illuminate the longitudinal dynamic aspects of vehicles.
Clear and brief: acceleration and braking.
In Detail: After an introduction, we will look at driving resistances and slip, explain the demand of power and limits of a car, then clarify the needs for a clutch and gears and look at the rear and front weights during acceleration and braking. The course will be finished by two applications from automotive mechatronics.
What will I learn?
By the end of the course you will …
- understand basic principles of accelerating and braking a car.
- know the driving resistances and their influences on vehicle dynamics.
- understand the discrepancy between demands and limits of powertrain.
- understand the necessity of gears and clutch.
- understand the correlation between braking, wheel load and recovery of energy.
- be able to calculate simple properties of a car.
What do I have to know?
Some basic understanding of the following subjects will help you successfully participate in this course: Algebra; Trigonometric Functions; Differential Calculus; Linear Algebra; Vectors; Coordinate Systems; Force, Torque, Equilibrium; Mass, Center of Gravity, Moment of Inertia; Method of Sections, Friction, Newton's Law, (Lagrange's Equation)
Course structure
This course has a total of 12 chapters, and the topics for each chapter are the following:
Chapter 1: Preliminaries
Chapter 2: Introduction and Rolling Resistance
Chapter 3: Resistances: Grading, Acceleration, Aerodynamic Drag
Chapter 4: Real and ideal characteristic maps
Chapter 5: Approximation of the ideal map: Clutch and transmission
Chapter 6: Driving performance and axle loads
Chapter 7: ABS: Anti-lock Braking System
Chapter 8: ACC
Chapter 9: Homework Solutions Chapters 1 -3
Chapter 10: Homework Solutions Chapter 4 - 5
Chapter 11: Homework Solutions Chapter 6 - 8
Chapter 12: Solution of the exam
Over the past decade, young people around the globe has faced very different but great challenges: unemployment, skills gap, vocational trainings, outdated educational formats, school-to-work transition etc. Consequently, "empowerment" has become the buzzword in business, evaluation and youth development. Because of its wide use, the word "empowerment" has many different meanings to people. “Discover Yourself: Build a Career and Make an Impact” is an interactive MOOC that will empower youth through a holistic approach on four different skills sets and dimensions:
Chapter 1: Personal Development: What do you love doing?
Chapter 2: Professional Development: What do you do well?
Chapter 3: Community Development: What is the community around you?
Chapter 4: Sustainable Development: What the world needs?
Empowerment is defined as a way to provide tips and opportunities for youth to develop the competencies they need to become successful contributing members of their communities.
The MOOC is part of a youth-strategic partnership project titled “Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here!” (CC: YEAH) supported by the programme Erasmus +. The project is based on partnership between the Association for Education Mladiinfo International from Macedonia, Mladiinfo Slovensko (Slovakia), The Global Experience (Germany) and Iversity (Germany). As a part of the project, the course content was developed, the video shooting was organized in Bratislava, Slovakia and a special brochure containing the materials from the course was produced. The expected project results can be summed up as following:
- Development of an innovative approach in the process of self-learning based on Open Education Resources;
- Enlarged awareness on required skills and competences needed for youth career development;
- Increased soft, entrepreneurial and digital skills of youth through non-formal online education opportunities;
- Created a strategic approach and mutual action on youth development among involved partner organizations.
Who is this course for?
Discover Yourself: Build a Career and Make an Impact will be an inclusive, free and open course for all vision-driven, knowledge-hungry and goal-oriented young individuals. We aim to attract young people aged 18 to 30, from all around the globe who are eager to work on themselves and to grow both personally and professionally. The idea is to provide those interested youth with concrete skills and tools to boost their potentials as well as to bring relevant information to them that will encourage them to undertake concrete activities in the communities where they live. In the same time, we are also targeting youngsters who have fewer opportunities and face economic, social, educational or geographical difficulties and through the MOOC we want to bring them closer to the world of opportunities.
What will I learn?
The whole course content will be organized around 4 chapters devoted on: personal, professional, community and sustainable development.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
Personal development chapter:
- Discover what your interests, values and personal characteristics are;
- Identify exactly what you want and what you do not want to do.
Professional development chapter:
- Understand the drivers behind your career preferences and choices;
- Learn how to recognize your talents and interests and how to match them with your concrete professional career;
- Identify the skills which you can offer as well as learn about your current skills gaps.
Community development chapter:
- Demonstrate knowledge and ability to create a plan to help you improve your soft skills;
- Recognize opportunities for your career enhancement both within and beyond your current status;
- Summarize your achievements and skills in appropriate formats for future employers or academic institutions.
Sustainable development chapter:
- Extend and make most effective use of your professional network both on- and off-line
- Learn what the world career trends are;
- Discover how your career choice can influence the world challenges.
What do I need to know?
This is an introductory course. Previous knowledge is not required. The course is designed for people interested in building up a career and make an impact.
Course Structure
Chapter 1: Personal Development
Our journey to self-discovery will start from the personal development. In the first chapter, we will give you the overview of your personality and how it could influence your career choice. In the three chapter units, you will identify what the personal values you appreciate the most are and how these values are influencing your choices. Also, you will be guided to discover your personality type and will have a chance to test yourself and find out which personality type you belong to and how you can connect it to your potential career.
Chapter 2: Professional Development
Once you have discovered who actually you really are and what you love doing, it is time to see what kind of career will fit your personality and interests. Your professional self is under huge pressure lately, right? So many trends, reports and statistics show new, undiscovered ways of working and imagining your job of the future. But nothing will ever make sense unless you get to know your professional self and make choices based on your skills, needs and capacities. In this chapter you will be able to walk the thin line between self-discovery and self-creation, while articulating your experience and skills into a successful career plan.
Chapter 3: Community Development
In the Community Development chapter, we will help you discover what and how the empowered YOU can do for your community, for your peers, for your neightbours. In this chapter, we will show you the ways how you can make an impact: as an individual, as part of non formal group, and as a member of an organization. At the end of the chapter, you will be able to identify a project idea, draft a basic proposal and find a suitable programme where you can apply for a project grant for your idea. But first and foremost, you will be inspired to take the community in your hands and move the things forward!
Chapter 4: Sustainable Development
In the last chapter we will take a step back. What is the big picture? What are the challenges in the world today? We will speak about Sustainable Development Goals and discover ways how you can expand your circle of influence. We will finish the course with three elements of sustainable development - the economic, social and environmental. We want to motivate you to take personal social responsibility for your surrounding and for the whole world.
At the end of the course, the students will be able to draft a personal development plan that will present their pathway to their personal, professional, community and sustainable development.
Architecture 101
To learn more about architecture 101, we kindly invite you to read about it in the first part of the course description, here. Eventually, also read the description of part 2 here.
Architecture 101 (part 3: from space to architecture)
In part 1 of our course, we explore the state of nothingness and start to understand the idea of “place”. In part 2 we learn to transform a place into a space. Now, we are ready for part 3: to transform a space into architecture.
What does it mean to transform a space into architecture?
“Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.” Louis Kahn
In part 2, we learn that space is composed of mind and matter. Now, in order for us to benefit from this matter, we need to put it in order. And this is exactly what architecture is all about. Architecture is about giving a very specific kind of meaning and symbolic value to a series of different things.
In this part of the course, we will plan, design and construct a system in which to organize and render coherent important matter (that matters to us). A matter of structure and proportions.
By doing so, we will give a new sense to place and space.
Are you ready?
Our 6-month online journey will be celebrated at Abadir in Sicily, where we will set up our final exhibition.
Course Structure
Week 1: materials
Week 2: colors
Week 3: sounds
Week 4: moving images
Week 5: animations
Week 6: the video
Week 7: about the exam
Week 8: break / exhibition / graduation party at Abadir, in Sicily
Week extra: Architecture 101 Summer Camp at Abadir, in Sicily (where we will build for real). If you are still alive by then, this “physical” 5-day workshop is a course in itself and it will soon be officially announced.
What will I learn?
To see architecture like architects do.
To explore the ways in which space becomes architecture.
To learn that form follows fiction.
We will also learn a significative amount of extremely interesting (and totally useless) things.
All of the above refers to the conceptual part of our course.
Then, since we love having our students making practical things, you will also learn lots of technical things using a number of interesting applications.
At the end, what do I make?
A video (with a given set of constraints) in which you will show your built 1 to 1 architecture. If one thousand people finish this part 3, we will have a fabulous collection of 1000 videos representing 1000 architectural concepts.
Prior knowledge
This is the 3rd part of a tripartite course called Architecture 101.
To have followed the first 2 parts (1 + 2) is highly recommended, however not required.
Then, in terms of other kinds of prior knowledge, nothing in particular is required.
However, in terms of technical equipment, this course will be easier to follow for those with access to a smartphone or tablet.
You don’t need a smartphone or tablet. But, as we wrote, we imagined a class with thousands of people lost in their phones, from all around the world. In commuters, we trust!
Workload
Between 3 and 7 hours a week.
From Monday to Friday, for a total of 6 weeks, you will receive an email with a 15 second-video to watch (to get you in the mood), and a pdf with some instructions for completing an assignment and a series of references (to go deeper in the subject at hand).
Then, you will get to work on your assignment. Once you complete your assignment, you will upload it to the iversity platform and share it on your preferred social media account(s). Ideally Instagram.
Then, during the weekend, we will give you some time to catch up.
Are you ready?
:-)
Kursbeschreibung
Der Kurs führt in das zentrale Gebiet der Informatik ein, auf dem alle anderen Teilgebiete aufbauen: Wie entwickele ich Software? Anhand der Programmiersprache Java werden Algorithmen zum Suchen und Sortieren vorgestellt und die dazu benötigten Datenstrukturen wie Keller, Schlange, Liste, Baum und Graph eingeführt.
Was lerne ich in diesem Kurs?
Die Teilnehmer des Kurses werden in die Lage versetzt, eine Problemstellung auf maschinelle Lösbarkeit hin zu analysieren, dafür einen Algorithmus zu entwerfen, die zugehörigen Datenstrukturen zu wählen, daraus ein Java-Programm zu entwickeln und dieses zur Lösung des Problems einzusetzen.
Welche Vorkenntnisse benötige ich?
Mathematikkenntnisse auf Oberstufenniveau.
Kursplan
| Kapitel | Thema |
|---|---|
| Kapitel 1 | Einführung |
| Kapitel 2 | Systemumgebung |
| Kapitel 3 | Java |
| Kapitel 4 | Datentypen |
| Kapitel 5 | Felder |
| Kapitel 6 | Methoden |
| Kapitel 7 | Rekursion |
| Kapitel 8 | Komplexität |
| Kapitel 9 | Sortieren |
| Kapitel 10 | Objektorientierung |
| Kapitel 11 | Abstrakte Datentypen |
| Kapitel 12 | Suchbäume |
| Kapitel 13 | Hashing |
| Kapitel 14 | Graphen |
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