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Dieser Kurs bietet einen leicht zugänglichen Einstieg in die faszinierende Welt der Informatik. Dabei werden insbesondere die objekt-orientierte Programmierung und einfache Algorithmen behandelt. Sie lernen unter anderem, wie man kleine Programme in der populären Programmiersprache Java schreibt.

Dies ist aber kein reiner Programmierkurs, sondern soll vor allem die wesentlichen Grundlagen bereitstellen, um auch größere Programme verstehen und selbst entwickeln zu können. Bei den vielen interaktiven Übungen mit praktischen Beispielen und direkten Rückmeldungen kommt aber auch der Spaß nicht zu kurz!

Der Kurs orientiert sich am bayerischen Schulfach Informatik, das von Prof. Hubwieser maßgeblich mitkonzipiert wurde.

Businesses today have access to an increasingly large amount of detailed customer data, and this influx of data is only going to continue. Combined with a detailed history of marketing actions, there is a newfound potential for deriving actionable insights, but you need the tools to do so. Using real-world applications from various industries, this course will help you understand the tools and strategies used to make data-driven decisions that you can put to use in your own company or business. This valuable data may include in-store and online customer transactions, customer surveys as well as prices and advertising. You’ll also learn how to assess critical managerial problems, develop relevant hypotheses, analyze data and, most importantly, draw inferences to create convincing narratives which yield actionable results.

This course is part of Wharton's Digital Marketing Professional Certificate. For more information, see here.

In this course, we go beyond the calculus textbook, working with practitioners in social, life and physical sciences to understand how calculus and mathematical models play a role in their work.

Through a series of case studies, you’ll learn:

• How standardized test makers use functions to analyze the difficulty of test questions;
• How economists model interaction of price and demand using rates of change, in a historical case of subway ridership;
• How an x-ray is different from a CT-scan, and what this has to do with integrals;
• How biologists use differential equation models to predict when populations will experience dramatic changes, such as extinction or outbreaks;
• How the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model was created to answer a biological puzzle;
• How statisticians use functions to model data, like income distributions, and how integrals measure chance;
• How Einstein’s Energy Equation, E=mc² is an approximation to a more complicated equation.

With real practitioners as your guide, you’ll explore these situations in a hands-on way: looking at data and graphs, writing equations, doing calculus computations, and making educated guesses and predictions.

This course provides a unique supplement to a course in single-variable calculus. Key topics include application of derivatives, integrals and differential equations, mathematical models and parameters.

This course is for anyone who has completed or is currently taking a single-variable calculus course (differential and integral), at the high school (AP or IB) or college/university level. You will need to be familiar with the basics of derivatives, integrals, and differential equations, as well as functions involving polynomials, exponentials, and logarithms.

This is a course to learn applications of calculus to other fields, and NOT a course to learn the basics of calculus. Whether you’re a student who has just finished an introductory Calculus course or a teacher looking for more authentic examples for your classroom, there is something for you to learn here, and we hope you’ll join us!

Using Desmos in this Course This course uses Desmos (https://www.desmos.com/), an online graphing calculator, to illustrate examples. Your use of the Desmos platform or any content hosted by Desmos is subject to the Desmos terms of service at https://www.desmos.com/terms and privacy policy at https://www.desmos.com/privacy.

If you do not wish to use the Desmos platform or view content hosted by Desmos, you may not be able to complete the course. This course does NOT require you to make your own individual user account on Desmos. Desmos is a separate entity and is not directly affiliated with HarvardX or edX.

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This tutorial is designed to guide you and teach you skills to create your very own eBook with audio included. The train

The course covers BOTH the technical set-up aspects AND content driven marketing strategies that apply to EVERY business

Everyone has an opinion on parenting – where babies should sleep, what they should eat, and whether parents should spank, scold, or praise. What’s more, the media often offers support for whichever opinions appear most popular at any given time. This leaves those of us who like to base our decisions on firm, provable facts feeling dizzy.

“The Science of Parenting” addresses this confusion by moving beyond the chatter and opinion surrounding parenting, and by looking directly at the science. Parenting itself is far from a science. Nevertheless, scientists have conducted thousands of studies that can help parents – or future parents – make sensible, informed decisions.

One goal of this course will be to provide a survey of important scientific findings spanning a range of topics that are central to the lives of parents: 

• diet;
• sleep;
• discipline;
• learning;
• screen time;
• impulse control;
• vaccination.

We’ll also explore ongoing mysteries, like what causes autism, and why so many children are allergic to peanuts.

Perhaps more important, this course will not only dig into existing science, but will also explore the underlying nature of parenting science itself. Often, scientists measure correlations: they ask how different parenting practices are related to different behaviors in children. But the claims they make from correlational data are often much, much stronger. For example, from correlational data, scientists often claim that parents cause the behaviors of their kids. This course will show how this type of error – common in the scientific literature – can explain a significant amount of the confusion present in the media and general public. We will discuss how to avoid the same error when evaluating science, and how to use the sum of available evidence to inform decision making.

The course’s instructor, David Barner, is a leading authority on cognitive development. He is joined by leading experts on behavior genetics, vaccination, autism, lying, and spanking, as well as by real live parents who try to use science to inform their decisions. This class is suitable not only for parents, future parents, and grandparents, but also for professionals interested in health care, social work, and early childhood education who want to increase their knowledge and analysis skills.

Want to build better programs? Learn how, in this professional-level course.

Bring your programming experience, and join us for a deep dive into fundamental concepts that you can use right away. Go underneath the hood of functional algorithms and data structures, and see how they work and how to compare them. Plus, get the details on when and how to use them.

In this real-world-tested curriculum, take a look at famous algorithms and equations, and see how yours stack up. See practical demos, compare “life scenarios” to their coding counterparts, and create an app for your final project.

Add to your developer toolkit with this in-depth exploration of algorithms and data structures.

Explore this five-unit course and discover a unified framework for understanding the essential physics that govern materials at atomic scales. You’ll then be able to relate these processes to the macroscopic world.

The course starts with an introduction to quantum mechanics and its application to understand the electronic structure of atoms and the nature of the chemical bond. After a brief description of the electronic and atomic structures of molecules and crystals, the course discusses atomic motion in terms of normal modes and phonons, as well as using molecular dynamics simulations.

Finally, principles of statistical mechanics are introduced and used to relate the atomic world to macroscopic properties.

Throughout the course, students will use online simulations in nanoHUB to apply the concepts learned to interesting materials and properties; these simulations will involve density functional theory and molecular dynamics.

Learn How to use top social media productivity apps to increase your productivity at work and in your business

This course is your first crucial step to learning Mandarin Chinese. Establish a solid foundation of your Chinese journey.

Switching from Latin alphabet or other phonogram languages to Chinese can be intimidating and frustrating. This prerequisite course breaks down all basic characteristics of Chinese language, ensuring you have a solid foundation to be a competent speaker.

In each lesson, we will introduce one rule with practices and related dialogues. By the end of this course, you will be ready to further your knowledge in Chinese.

No previous knowledge needed. We start from the beginning!

This course was developed with the assistance of Dr. Haohsiang Liao, Director of the Chinese Language Program at MIT.

In this course, you will learn storage solutions that you can implement in your organization.

The course will help you:

• Improve your skills in implementing a storage infrastructure;
• Decide if a career in IT is for you;
• Prepare for an introductory job in Windows Server administration;
• Study for Microsoft certification tests and badges.

The course uses a combination of hands-on practical exercises, demonstrations, and assessments.

This course is a follow-on to INF213x, Basic Storage.

¿Eres nuevo enseñando STEM en la Universidad?, ¿Quieres que tus cursos estén centrados en los estudiantes? este MOOC es para ti.

Cuenta con cuatro unidades, el primer módulo plantea los principios básicos para comprender cómo funciona el aprendizaje. Luego se hace un recorrido por los elementos clave del diseño de cursos integrado, cómo evaluar de forma eficiente y finalmente estrategias de aprendizaje activo.

A través de estudios de caso y ejercicios aplicados tendrá más herramientas para enfrentar los nuevos retos de la enseñanza STEM.

Este MOOC fue desarrollado por tres universidades a cargo del Centro para la Excelencia Docente, CEDU de la Universidad del Norte, La Oficina de Desarrollo Profesoral de la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano y el Centro de Aprendizaje, Enseñanza y Evaluación (CAE+E) de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, con la asesoría del profesor James Lang, reconocido investigador internacional en docencia universitaria gracias al apoyo de una beca Fullbright.

Para realizar este curso no necesitas tener formación pedagógica. Se trata de un curso introductorio sobre los principios básicos de diseño de cursos. Te invitamos a participar. Únete a nosotros y arriésgate a innovar.

This course focuses on providing skills and resources for you and your family to manage life with diabetes.

You will learn what diabetes is, the difference between type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes as well as how they are treated and why management is so important. 

You will learn about recommended food choices and eating habits for those living with diabetes as well as the best types of exercise to help manage blood glucose levels. Lastly, we will discuss overall strategies for keeping well and managing your condition including sick day management, hypoglycaemia management and travel.

This course provides a progressive, holistic, Christian theological framework, in dialogue with other religious traditions, for wise personal and institutional financial stewardship.

The course explores ways we connect faith and money in multiple areas of our lives. It seeks to increase financial literacy in religious leaders; offering practical steps to reduce indebtedness and execute theologically and ethically informed financial planning; both as individuals and as leaders within their respective institutions. The course offers guidance on building healthy nonprofit organizations and carrying out values-based fundraising.

Beginner's guide to how to efficiently use Dropbox for your digital documents and manage your real estate transactions.

Responsive cities define the future of urbanization. They evolve from smart cities, with a fundamental difference: The citizens move from the center of attention to the center of action. Responsive citizens use smart technology to contribute to planning, design and management of their cities.

Responsive cities are about bringing cities back to their citizens. Responsive cities change the way the technology of a smart city is used. The first Smart Cities were technology driven and they produced large amounts of data from fixed or centrally controlled sensors. But by now, the citizens and their mobile phones have taken the leading role in direct data generation. Rather than using data that are centrally collected and stored, you will see platforms on which the citizens place the data and the information they decide to share. With this, your own responsibility becomes a foundation of a Responsive City. Cities evolve from being smart to being responsive.

To demonstrate the potential of Responsive Cities, this course will define the concept of Citizen Design Science, a combination of Citizen Design, Citizen Science and Design Science. Experts, citizens and scientists participate in Citizen Design Science. This approach is still in an early stage of development, but with the Responsive Cities Massive Open Online Course, you will be ahead in exploring and defining its possibilities.

‘Responsive cities’ is the fourth edition of the ‘Future Cities’ series on urban MOOCs. The ‘Future Cities’ series is the first and complete series of urban courses dealing with the design, management and transformation of cities for their sustainable and resilient future. With every edition, the series becomes more interactive. It increasingly empowers citizens around the world to become part of the development of their own cities, especially in those places where this knowledge is needed most. Therefore, the course is inclusive for every individual interested in the planning, construction, redevelopment and management of future cities. The course is open to anyone regardless of background, skills, knowledge, or age.

希望聆听古典音乐却不知如何开始，不知如何才能理解古典音乐内涵，学习音乐文化常识？这个课程属于你！ 
 
“浪漫主义时代的欧洲音乐”是一门讲解19世纪以来西方浪漫主义音乐文化的艺术普及课程。课程将欧洲浪漫主义时代最具代表性的音乐文化现象作为讲解的重点，引导同学们深入了解欧洲艺术音乐创作、表演、接受、传播的历史线索和文化语境。 
 
学生不需事先掌握基本音乐知识或音乐表演技能。 
 
本课程有助于学生掌握基本音乐知识和历史常识，深入领会浪漫主义时期古典音乐的文化内涵，积累相当数量的音乐常听曲目。丰富个人艺术生活。 
                   
                   

¿Cuáles son los avances y desafíos que América Latina y el Caribe tiene por delante en relación a la pobreza y desigualdad, desarrollo infantil temprano, educación, salud, protección social y empleo?

En este MOOC conocerás el panorama actual de cada uno de estos aspectos en la región, así como políticas basadas en evidencia y casos prácticos de programas sociales que han resultado efectivos en la mejora de la calidad de vida de los habitantes de la región.

Si te interesa el desarrollo económico y social de América Latina y el Caribe y quieres conocer cómo abordar estos desafíos con información actualizada y un lenguaje sencillo, regístrate en el curso y únete a nuestra comunidad de alumnos.

Becoming computer literate and competent

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