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When a person lives on less than $2 a day — as some 2.7 billion people around the world do — there isn’t room for a product like a solar lantern or a water filter to fail. Investment in failing products undermines future innovation by reducing confidence and depleting scarce resources.

It’s a challenge faced every day by development agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and consumers themselves. With so many products on the market, how do you choose the right one?

This course, developed by MIT’s Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) will explore the fundamentals of technology evaluation for global development. It includes a deep dive into CITE’s 3S methodology, looking at products from three angles:

• Suitability—does a product perform its intended purpose?
• Scalability—can the supply chain effectively reach consumers?
• Sustainability—is it a product that can be used correctly, consistently, and continuously over time?

This course is designed for academics and global development practitioners; those interested in conducting their own technology evaluations to promote data-driven decisions through research or development practice. 

Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt (John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities) guides learners through an exploration of Shakespeare’s unforgettable character Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and his historical origins.

In the first act of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, the Jewish moneylender Shylock proposes a “merry sport” to the merchant Antonio: he will lend Antonio the money he needs if Antonio agrees to let Shylock take a pound of his flesh should he default. Shylock calls this contract a “merry bond,” and Shakespeare’s First Folio calls the play a comedy. But what does Shylock want from the bond, and how merry does the play ultimately prove? 

This course introduces learners to Jewish history both in Venice and in England, to the ways in which Shakespeare’s own audience might have responded to the play and its genre, and to the history of the play’s production through the twenty-first century. 

Learners will also be invited to share their own theatrical interpretations of The Merchant of Venice and to ask how the meaning of a work of art may change in different times, contexts, and cultures.

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A common way of maximizing resources, server virtualization enables the partitioning of a physical server into smaller virtual servers. It’s a key skill in today’s IT world and you can learn it here!

This self-paced course will help you understand and implement the components of the Hyper-V role. This includes how to implement virtualization technologies, implement and configure Hyper-V virtual hard disks and virtual machines, and how to use Windows Server Containers and Docker.

Through videos, discussions, hands-on labs, and assessments you will put in place the appropriate virtualization strategy for your Windows Server environment.

Part of the Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Fundamentals XSeries, this course will teach you the necessary skills for proper server virtualization.  It will also prepare you for Microsoft certification tests and badges – everything you’d need in an introductory job in Windows Server administration.

在组织的人际沟通中，“我”和“我们”哪个更重要？在跨文化的交流中，你有没有遭遇过人际交往的尴尬和痛点？在现代企业的经营活动中，沟通存在着那些陷阱和挑战？ 本课程将现代管理沟通理念与中国传统文化思维相结合，分三个篇章讲述管理沟通的科学认知、个体沟通技能和组织沟通技能。重点描述了在中国文化情境中管理沟通的思维模式和行为方式。 这门课程由华北电力大学提供，北京大学推荐。

Which is more important, “I” or “We”, in interpersonal communication in organizations in China? Have you ever encountered an embarrassing and awkward experience in cross-cultural communication? What are the pitfalls and challenges in communication in operating enterprises in China?

This communications course is divided into three parts: scientific recognition of management communication, personal communication skills and organizational communication skills, by combining the modern management communication ideology and Chinese traditional cultural thinking. Meanwhile, this online course intensively describes the thinking model and behavior mode of management communication in the Chinese cultural context.

If you are beginning your career, a working professional, or planning to work and study in China, this course will help you effectively communicate with Chinese people and understand the Chinese way of management behavior.

Realize your personal value and achieve your organizational objectives.

This course is offered by North China Electric Power University, recommended by the Peking University.

课程背景：
本课程在中国开课不到1年来，有近六万人在线学习了该课程，很多学友说“这是一门让我们有直接收获的应用型课程”。“赵老师讲的故事让我念念不忘。” 课程主讲教师毕业于中国最富有人文气质高校之一的武汉大学、深造于美国的哈佛大学，具有十余年为“世界五百强企业”讲授经济管理类课程的职业经历，曾在中国国家教育部主办的全国高校教学比赛中获得一等奖。 想要收获价值的伙伴们还等什么？一起来吧！

Course Background:
Professor Zhao graduated from Wuhan University, which is one of the most famous universities and rich in humanistic environment and talents in China, and pursued advanced researches in Harvard University in the U.S. and he has possessed more than ten years’ professional experience in teaching economic & management courses for World Top 500 enterprises. He was also the First-Prize winner of the national university teaching contest sponsored by China’s Ministry of Education.

FAQ课程特色/最吸引你的可能是什么
七百多年前，马可波罗向世界展现了中国的物产、文化和艺术。当今，在全球经济一体化日益加深的前提下， 怎么认识中国，怎么理解中国式思维，特别是那些需要在中国企业工作或是与中国人打交道的朋友，怎么实现和中国人的有效沟通，本课程会以沟通为视角为你开展一个互联网时代的马可波罗式的导游，让你系统认知中国人以独特的心理文化构建的人际世界和组织行为。

FAQ Features/ What will most possibly attract you?
Over seven hundred years ago, the abound resources, magnificent culture and art of China were unfolded to the world by Marco Polo. With the deepening of the economic globalization, nowadays, how to understand China, how to obtain a better understanding of the Chinese way of thinking, and how to achieve the effective communication with the Chinese, especially for those who need work in China and make contact with the Chinese? From the perspective of communication, this course will conduct a Marco Polo-styled guided tour in the times of internet for you, and facilitate the systematic recognition of the interpersonal world and organizational behavior constructed by the Chinese in their unique psychological culture.

How can you determine if a proposed real estate development project is socially responsible? Or determine whether the developer used the tools of social impact assessment (SIA), environmental impact assessment (EIA), and public consultation effectively?

This course will teach you how to evaluate a development project and practice socially responsible real estate yourself by applying SIA, EIA, and consultation methods. It is also designed to help students build their own personal theory of what constitutes socially responsible real estate development.

Taught by a professor with more than forty-five years of teaching experience at MIT, using an applied case study method, this course will open new opportunities for real estate developers and urban planners to see how SIA, EIA, and stakeholder engagement are the keys to creating socially-responsible real estate development throughout the world. 

Perhaps more than any other city, Alexandria has achieved a legendary literary status, and, in the twentieth-century in particular, has had writers of different nationalities immortalize it in literature.

In this course, we will explore the works of some writers whose names are associated with Alexandria, regardless of whether they were Alexandrians themselves or not. The writers we will discuss are C. P. Cavafy, E. M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, Edwar al Kharrat, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid, Jaqueline Carol and Harry Tzalas.

The aim is to look at writers who bore different relations to the city: Alexandrians of foreign origins (Greek and Lebanese), Egyptian Alexandrians (an Orthodox Christian Copt and a Muslim) and foreigners who were only passing through (British), to explore how he or she represented the city in their works, or how Alexandria influenced their writing.

Excel は、データの分析と可視化の目的で広く使われているソリューションの 1 つです。改善された可視化と高度なビジネスロジックを備えた、より多くのデータの分析を可能にするツールが含まれています。このコースでは、Excel 2016でこれらの新しいツールの最新バージョンを、Microsoft Excel製品チームのエキスパートより紹介します。

各種のソースからデータをどのようにインポートするかを学び、データソースを組み合わせてマッシュアップを作成し、分析用のデータを準備します。データを準備した後、ビジネス計算がDAX 計算エンジンを使ってどのように表現されるかを、明らかにします。どのようにしてデータを可視化するか、 Power BI クラウド サービスに共有するかを見ていきます。その後、ダッシュボードで利用できるようにし、簡単な英文を使って質問したり、モバイル デバイスでも利用できます。

本コースの内容のレベルが少し高く、Excel の知識に関していくらかギャップを埋める必要があると感じていますか。ピボット テーブル、ピボットグラフ、スライサーの連動の仕組みや、ダッシュボード作成のヘルプに関し、もっと理解を深める必要がありますか。その場合には、「DAT205x: Introduction to Data Analysis using Excel」 をご覧ください。

本コースは 「Microsoft Excel for the Data Analyst XSeries」 にも含まれています。

Organizations often spend considerable money on collaborative tools – but those tools are of no use unless there’s widespread adoption across teams. How can an organization ensure that the tools in which they’ve invested reach full adoption?

In this course, you will learn methods for engaging users and building internal support for new tools. You’ll learn how to conduct effective training, as well as ways to develop content that will spur adoption. You will learn how to improve productivity and communicate the process for overall collaborative improvement. 

Interested in the CFA Program? Fitch Learning can help you decide whether it's right for you.

Want to learn how to identify and solve every day ethical issues in engineering and science? If yes, this is the course for you! Ethics plays an integral role when it comes to engineering and science practice. This course teaches traditional preventive ethics but emphasizes aspirational ethics.

The learning objectives of this course are as follows:

1. To recognize the significant social and environmental impact of engineering/scientific solutions.
2. To apply a practical seven-step ethical guide to real-world cases.
3. To critique, analyze, and develop best ethical solutions across micro- to meta- levels toward real-world problems.
4. To understand how one behaves in an organization professionally as an ethical engineer.

倫理は、科学者・技術者が仕事をする上で、不可欠なものである。この科目では、新しいタイプの科学技術倫理を学ぶ。本科目では、これまでの科学技術倫理教育の伝統的なアプローチである「予防倫理」だけでなく、「志向倫理」の考え方を重視する。この科目を通して、科学技術者が現場で直面する可能性のある倫理的問題を認識し、これを解決することを学んでいただきたい。また、倫理的な科学技術者が、公衆の福利に貢献できるだけでなく、彼ら自身も「よく生きる（well-being）」ことができることを理解していただきたい。

本科目の学習教育目標は以下のとおりである。

1. 科学技術が人間社会や環境に与える影響を吟味することにより、技術者が重視すべき価値について理解し、これを共有しようとする態度を育成する。

2. 科学技術者が直面する可能性のある具体的な倫理問題の検討を通して、倫理的意思決定のための具体的な方法（セブン・ステップ・ガイド）を修得する。

3. 倫理的な科学技術者が、社会の福利に貢献できるだけでなく、自らの「よく生きること（well-being）」を維持し、高めることができることを理解する。

4. 具体的な事例の検討を通して、組織のなかで技術者がいかに行動すべきかを理解する。

5. 具体的な事例を分析するスキルを修得する。

Please note that slides in English will be available within the course. 

This course seeks to answer the question: how did a school system, once the envy of the world, stumble so that the performance in math, science, and reading of U.S. students at age 15 fell below that of students in a majority of the world’s industrialized nations?

We start by identifying the personalities and historical forces—the progressives, racial desegregation, legalization and collective bargaining—that shaped and re-shaped U.S. school politics and policy. We visit the places where new ideas and practices were spawned, and we look at some of their unanticipated consequences.

From there, we seek answers to a second question: What are the best ways of lifting the performance of American schools to a higher level? To explore these questions, we look at ideas and proposals of those who want to save our schools—be it by reforming the teaching profession, holding schools accountable, or giving families more school choices. In interviews with reform proponents and independent experts, we capture the intensity of the current debate. In the end, we do not find any silver bullets that can magically lift schools to a new level of performance, but we do pinpoint the pluses and minuses of many new approaches to education reform.

We will use the free and open tool, App Inventor for Android, to explore advanced topics in computer science.

You’ll build an app a week, exploring such advanced topics as gameplay over a network, encryption, and more.

At the end of the course, we’ll collectively decide on an app that we will build together. You will be able to build almost anything you can imagine!

Because computer science is not just about coding and building apps, we will also learn some of the fundamental principles of computer science. We'll explore the potential and the limitations of computing and coding. We'll learn how the Internet works and about the positive and negative aspects of computing in today's society.

For these broader computing concepts we will work within an emerging curricular framework -- the Computer Science Principles (CSP).  The CSP framework is being developed by leading computer science educators from around the country under the auspices of the College Board and with funding support of the National Science Foundation.

In addition to programming and CSP, the course is project-based and emphasizes writing, communication, and creativity. Multiple-choice questions, in the style that students can expect to encounter on the AP exam, will also be a key component of this course.

Web applications are inherently insecure, as aptly illustrated by a pile of recent events. Insecurity is however not fundamental to the web platform. As a matter of fact, the modern web offers a variety of powerful security features that help stop a hacker. Unfortunately, not many developers have the knowledge and skills to leverage these security features to their full potential.

This course is imperative for understanding the fundamental security principles of the web. The course provides an overview of the most common attacks, and illustrates fundamental countermeasures that every web application should implement. In essence, this course offers you the knowledge and skills to build better and more secure applications.

This MOOC will introduce you to the web security landscape. Throughout the course, you will gain insights into the threats that modern web applications face. You’ll build an understanding of common attacks and their countermeasures; not only in theory, but also in practice. You’ll be provided with an overview of current best practices to secure web applications

Although no previous security knowledge is necessary to join this course, it will help to be familiar with the basic concepts behind web applications, including HTTP, HTML, and JavaScript.

El objetivo del curso es introducir algunos conceptos básicos de la Gestión de Proyectos / Project Management (PM), según las metodologías del Project Management Institute (PMI). El PMI es la Principal Organización Mundial en el campo de la Dirección de Proyectos (www.pmi.org). Sus guías están basadas en las "Buenas Prácticas" de profesionales de todo el mundo, y sus certificaciones, por ejemplo el Project Manager Professional (PMP) son muy demandadas por empresas de todos los sectores.

Se tratan los conceptos básicos de la gestión de proyectos, la gestión del tiempo y la gestión del riesgo en un proyecto.

This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Front-End Web Development. 

Want to write organized code for your website that you can easily manage and maintain? TypeScript is the answer to building scalable web applications. TypeScript lets you write JavaScript the way you want to. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. It works on Any browser. Any host. Any OS. TypeScript is open source and has attracted the attention of a big community of web developers who are continuously contributing to the wealth of the language making it the language for web development. TypeScript brings all the next-generation features of ECMAScript 6 like Arrow Functions, Decorators, Generics, Modules and Interfaces. In this course, you'll learn all the basics of TypeScript and will have hands-on using features of TypeScript such as types, optional static types, classes, interfaces, and modules. You will learn how TypeScript has solved many issues developers have suffered from with JavaScript. You will learn how TypeScript has made web development more fun and easier. You will be doing all this using the most recent released version of the language TypeScript 2.3.

This course will cover all you need to know to get up and running and start building functional websites using TypeScript 2.3

We assume that you have a general understanding of either JavaScript or another programming language. This course will not teach you JavaScript or the fundamentals of programming so if you haven't programmed before, be sure to set aside extra time so you can explore some basic concepts and skills that may be foreign to you. Object Oriented Programming (OOP ) experience is not required but is a big plus to understand concepts like classes and inheritance in TypeScript. Familiarity with HTML is also very helpful for this course.

If you are familiar with JavaScript, many of the concepts in TypeScript will be familiar but we'll cover some concepts that may be new to you and show you how TypeScript can enhance your JavaScript programming.

Knowing TypeScript is becoming more and more a must have skill for web development since many of the web development libraries now are using TypeScript. For example, TypeScript is a must when it comes to using Angular 2 in a web application. TypeScript also can be used in server-side applications. Knowing TypeScript is your way to become a full stack developer. Therefore, if you are considering a career in web development, TypeScript is an important gear in your tool box or skillset.

This course serves as an introduction to the exciting field of cybersecurity.

As our daily lives become more and more dependent on Internet-based tools and services, and as those platforms accumulate more of our most sensitive data, the demand grows for experts in the field of cybersecurity.

In this course, you will gain an overview of the cybersecurity landscape as well as national (USA) and international perspectives on the field. We will cover the legal environment that impacts cybersecurity as well as predominant threat actors.

This course will tell you the reason why ritual is the core of Chinese culture, in contrast with western culture.

You will be introduced to relevant ritual classical books, which will help you to understand how people behaved in ancient China.

You will also learn about the rituals behind ancient Chinese adult rites, wedding ceremonies, sacrifice ceremonies, and more.

Join us to start your ancient Chinese ritual journey.

中国是传承千年的礼仪之邦，声教播于海外。相传在3000多年前的殷周之际，周公制礼作乐，就提出了礼治的纲领。其后经过孔子和七十子后学，以及孟子、荀子等人的提倡和完善，礼乐文明成为儒家文化的核心。西汉以后，作为礼乐文化的理论形态和上古礼制的渊薮，《仪礼》、《周礼》、《礼记》先后被列入学官，不仅成为古代文人必读的经典，而且成为历代王朝制礼的基础，对于中国文化和历史的影响之深远，自不待言。随着东亚儒家文化圈的形成，礼乐文化自然成为了东方文明的重要特色。毋庸置疑，要了解中国传统文化，就必须了解中国礼仪文化。

本课程讲通过大量的文献材料，深入浅出地讲授中国古代礼仪文明的基本框架，建立中华传统礼仪观念的过程，培养学生人文素养，建立良好操守，并引导其在生活中践行中华传统礼仪。

What do collapsed buildings, infected hospital patients, and crashed airplanes have in common? If you know the causes of these events and conditions, they can all be prevented.

In this course, you will learn how to use the TU Delft mind-set to investigate the causes of such events so you can prevent them in the future.

When, for instance, hundreds of hospital patients worldwide got infected after having gall bladder treatments, forensic engineering helped reveal how the design and use of the medical instruments could cause such widespread infections. As a result, changes were made to the instrument design and the procedural protocols in hospitals. Learning from failure in this case benefitted patient health and safety across the world.

After taking this course you will have an understanding of failures and the investigation processes used to find their causes. You will learn how to apply lessons gained from investigating previous failures into new designs and procedures.

The TU Delft Forensic Engineering mind-set involves recommendations for:

• Data collection ranging from desk studies (theoretical/predicted performance of structures) to field investigations (actual performance of failed structures)
• Hypothesis generation techniques for technical and procedural causes of failure
• Hypothesis testing for engineering aspects of forensic cases
• Reporting findings about the most likely causes and consequences
• Improving engineering designs based on lessons learned from forensic cases

The course uses case studies from Building Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Biomechanical Engineering. All of these provide great examples that illustrate the approaches and highlight technical and procedural causes of failure. You’ll find that not only is it crucial, but it’s also exciting to learn from failures.

This course is most useful for:

• Students who want to familiarize themselves with forensic engineering
• Building, aeronautical, biomechanical designers and engineers
• Forensic investigators, police, legal and insurance professionals
• Professionals from municipalities, government agencies or clients who are asked to perform internal forensic investigations

This course has been designed by TU Delft's international experts on safety issues, failure investigations and forensics. Arjo Loeve, Michiel Schuurman and Karel Terwel are members of the TU Delft Forensics community, the Delft Safety & Security Institute and the CLHC Expertise Center for Forensic Science and Medicine.

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