Online courses directory (1116)

The Meat We Eat is a course designed to create a more informed consumer about the quality, safety, healthfulness and sustainability of muscle foods and address current issues in animal agriculture in developed and developing countries.

There are over 100 million horses, donkeys and mules in the world today and owners of these animals can be found on almost every continent and in almost every society. The Horse Course will cover many unique aspects of equine ownership and touch upon the science behind many of today’s management practices.

This online course introduces the history and practice of drug policy. Students will learn about drug laws and their origins, and the complex task of drug policy analysis. The course also tackles contemporary issues in drug control, such as marijuana policy and prescription drug misuse.

M2O2C2 provides a first taste of multivariable differential calculus. By introducing the machinery of linear algebra, this course provides helpful tools for understanding the derivative of a function of many variables.

Helping you build human-centered design skills, so that you have the principles and methods to create excellent interfaces with any technology.

Learn about a new generation of solar cells, organic solar cells, that promise an answer to the energy demands of the future.

The Total Leadership approach will help you become a better leader by having a richer life and have a richer life by becoming a better leader. Learn a practical, proven method for how to articulate your core values and vision; build trust with your most important people; and achieve "four-way wins" -- improved performance at work or in school, at home with your family, in your community, and for your self (mind, body, spirit). It's not about "work/life balance"; it's about creating harmony among the different parts of your life as a leader in all of them.

Heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rate, temperature, pain. What do these vital signs tell you about your body? Learn the basic physiology underlying the vital signs and how to accurately assess them.

Learn effective approaches to English language teaching. This is the first of two teacher training courses based on the internationally-recognized Shaping the Way We Teach English videos and resources and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the University of Oregon. You can begin with either course.

Isn’t it time to end the loss of life from preventable medical errors? Each year 100,000 patients die from preventable errors in the U.S. How can you help to change this intractable problem? Knowledge is power, and this course will provide you with a deep understanding of the problems and the solutions. You can become part of the solution.

¿Qué es un algoritmo? ¿Cómo se hace un diagrama de flujo? ¿Qué es un pseudocódigo? ¿Cómo me pueden ayudar a resolver problemas cotidianos? Este curso básico de computación te ayudará a desarrollar el pensamiento algorítmico necesario para solucionar problemas en forma estructurada.

Learn effective approaches to English language teaching. This is the second of two teacher training courses based on the internationally-recognized Shaping the Way We Teach English videos and resources and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the University of Oregon. You can begin with either course. The next Paths course will be November 9-December 14, 2015.

This course aims to teach everyone to learn the basics of programming computers using Python. The course has no pre-requisites and avoids all but the simplest mathematics. Anyone with moderate computer experience should be able to master the materials in this course.

We are constantly using experiments to tweak and find improvements in our personal lives, our communities, and in our work. But are you doing it efficiently? Or are you changing one thing at a time and hoping for the best? In this course, you'll learn how to plan efficient experiments using statistical methods - enabling you to test for many variables that lead to better results.

Explore with us the fascinating ways of thinking about space in Viking Age and Old Norse culture. Together we will discuss how space is conceptualised and depicted in diverse Old Norse genres and traditions.

En este curso aprenderemos a interpretar cómo se inscriben y materializan los discursos acerca del género y la sexualidad en diversos productos y medios culturales (literatura, cine, televisión, fotografía, internet, etc.).

What makes bioinformatics education exciting is that people of a variety of education levels can get started quickly, with just a computer and internet access.

This course introduces innovative approaches to learning and teaching, with a focus on the use of e-learning and social web technologies.

Dieser Kurs vermittelt ein weites Feld an Grundlagen und Fertigkeiten im Bereich der unfallchirurgischen und orthopädischen Traumaversorgung. Dazu verwendet der Kurs ein komplett neues Konzept des Informationstransfers. Wir folgen einem wissenschaftlichen Ansatz und einer ausgeklügelten Kombination aus modernsten Lehrmethoden, um die Inhalte plastisch zu vermitteln. Dazu verwenden wir fallbasiertes Lernen, umfassendes Faktenwissen gefolgt von Quizfragen, die helfen, das Gelernte im Gedächtnis zu behalten und später im unfallchirurgischen Alltag abrufen zu können.

The purpose of this course is to improve feedback, clinical teaching, and assessment of clinical skills.