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Food access: Learn about food supply and food security

Have you ever considered that you’re not the only one who decides what food ends up on your plate? In this environmental studies course, you’ll explore how key actors at household, local, national and international levels negotiate and make choices on access to food. You will understand why the choices you make have been predestined. And you will learn what it takes to provide access to a safe and nutritious food supply every day.

In this course you will learn that food access:

• And food manufacturing has changed during the past century
• Depends on social and economic dynamics at the household level for everyone
• Is shaped at a local level by the interactions between traders, retailers, producers and buyers in the markets
• Is influenced on a national scale by politics and policies by negotiating and aligning goals, instruments, and modes of governance ¥ is impacted by debates and negotiations creating conditions in food trade by international organizations

Wageningen University is specialized

The University of Wageningen offers an excellent combination of conducting research worldwide and educating in the area of ‘healthy food and living environment’. The institute ranks among the top Dutch universities and has scored the third place in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Ranking 2017 for research performance. Learn from professors who have gained decades of experience from both teaching at a specialized university and real life projects about access to food worldwide.

This is why you should sign up

If you want to understand the basics of access to food and food decision-making from a multilevel perspective, you can sign up as a:

• student
• food and nutrition policy maker
• development practitioner and trainer at international, national, household and individual level

A verified edX certificate provides proof for an employer, school, or other institution that you have successfully completed this online course.

In order to sustain themselves, organizations need to compete for scarce resources both in input and output markets. Because of this organizations need to create some kind of competitive advantage.

In this business and management course, suitable for managers and leaders in midsize to large organizations, you will learn the principles of organizational design and how design elements can be leveraged to gain competitive advantage. We will discuss various organizational structures and how an effective organizational design can help achieve a company’s goals and objectives in a sustainable manner. Since organizations involve collaborative activities, you’ll also learn how to create suitable control systems, decision-making processes and culture and reporting relationships to ensure that the efforts of a diverse set of employees are suitably coordinated to achieve the organizational purpose.

Esta es el primero de una serie de cursos de introducción al uso de sistemas de información en las empresas, diseñada en base al el temario del examen USA CLEP Sistemas de Información y Aplicaciones Informáticas que te introducirá en el apasionante mundo de las TIC.

En este curso, aprenderás los conceptos básicos sobre los sistemas de información y sus aplicaciones en la empresa.

En este curso, aprenderás los conceptos básicos sobre los sistemas de información y sus aplicaciones en la empresa.

Want to listen to an opera for the first time? Have you been listening to opera for your entire life? This course is suited for beginners and advanced opera listeners alike!

This course is an introduction to German opera, focusing on giving you the tools and experiences to become better students of opera. The first week will give you a toolbox of skills to listen for specific moments and gestures in opera. The remaining weeks will focus on applying these skills to listening activities with your favorite German opera composers. At the end of the course, we will help you to carry these experiences beyond the course, encouraging you to become lifelong listeners and lovers of opera.

No previous knowledge of music or opera is necessary. Join us as we embark upon this community-focused journey to explore the wonders of German opera as it touches upon the human experience!

New to coding? Want to learn how to teach coding to your students? Do you have students who love to play Minecraft?

The LearnToMod software combines Minecraft, Coding, and Teacher support for teachers who have never coded on their own, and who have never taught coding! With hundreds of self-guided micro-coding assignments, lesson plans, and project ideas, this education and teacher training course will guide you through the basics of coding with Minecraft, and, more importantly, provide you with the tools and community to help you teach your students how to code in your way!

No previous coding knowledge needed! Some teaching experience recommended.

Taught by instructors who have been teaching novice coding teachers to teach for over a decade, this course will help teachers gain skills to teach coding with Minecraft, but also confidence to learn how to teach other coding topics!

भारत सहित विश्व के सभी देशों में एक आकांक्षा है कि सीखने की प्रक्रिया में विद्यार्थियो की सक्रिय भूमिका हो। इसके लिये अत्यधिक कुशल शिक्षक और गुणवत्तापूर्ण अध्यापक-शिक्षा का होना आवश्यक है।

यह कोर्स शिक्षक-प्रशिक्षकों को मुक्त शैक्षिक संसाधनों (Open Educational Resources) से परिचित कराता है – जो कि मुक्त (निःशुल्क एवं आसानी से उपलब्ध) अधिगम सामग्रियाँ है और जिन्हें विशेष संदर्भों में उपयोग के अनुकूल बनाया जा सकता है। यह कोर्स जानकारी देता है कि अध्यापक-शिक्षा कार्यक्रमों की रूपरेखा बनाने और उनके क्रियान्वयन में आप किस प्रकार OER का उपयोग कर सकते हैं ताकि आप कक्षा-कक्ष के सीखने-सिखाने की प्रक्रिया में परिवर्तन ला सके। इस कोर्स में TESS-India द्वारा तैयार किये गये OER पर विशेष रूप से ध्यान केन्द्रित किया गया है। इन नवाचारी, बहु-भाषायी, पाठ और वीडियो OER (www.tess-india.edu.in) का लक्ष्य है शिक्षकों को सहभागितापूर्ण दृष्टिकोण विकसित करने के लिए समर्थन देना जिससे वे कक्षा-कक्ष की गतिविधियों में सिद्धान्त एवं अभ्यास के बीच संबंध का प्रतिरूपण (Modelling) कर सकें। इस कोर्स में आप TESS-India और अध्यापक-शिक्षा के अन्य OER में निहित मूल्यों और शिक्षण-शास्त्र को समझ पायेंगे और सीखेंगे कि किस प्रकार आप इन OER को अपने स्वयं के तथा अपने विद्यार्थियों के संदर्भ में अनुकूलित और समावेशित कर सकते हैं।

इस कोर्स में भाग लेते हुए, आप OER को खोजने, चुनने, उनका मूल्यांकन करने और उनको अनुकूलित करने का कौशल विकसित करेंगे। इस कोर्स में सहकार्यता और अध्यापक-शिक्षा में OER के साथ कार्य करना प्रमुख विषयवस्तु हैं। आप कार्य करने के तरीकों और सुलभ अभ्यासों से परिचित हो पाएंगे जिन्हें आप अपने कार्यों में आगे ले जा सकते हैं। इस कोर्स के माध्यम से आप अपने साथी शिक्षक-प्रशिक्षकों का प्रोफेशनल सपोर्ट नेटवर्क भी बना पायेंगे और उसे सुदृढ़ कर पायेंगे।

यह कोर्स मुख्य रूप से, भारतीय संदर्भ में सेवा-पूर्व तथा सेवाकालीन, औपचारिक एवं अनौपचारिक कार्यक्रमों में प्राथमिक तथा माध्यमिक विद्यालयों के शिक्षकों के साथ कार्य कर रहे शिक्षक-प्रशिक्षकों के लिये बनाया गया है। हालांकि वैश्विक स्तर पर भी शिक्षक-प्रशिक्षकों के लिये इसका महत्वपूर्ण उपयोग है।

इस कोर्स की संपूर्ण सामग्री Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike लाइसेन्स के तहत मुक्त लाइसेन्स प्राप्त है। TESS-India प्रॉजेक्ट को अभिस्वीकृति देते हुये और इसी लाइसेन्स के तहत साझा करते हुये, आप इन कोर्स सामग्रियों का अनुवाद करने, रूपांतरण करने और अन्य उद्देश्यों के लिए उपयोग करने के लिए स्वतंत्र हैं। Creative Commons लाइसेन्स के बारे में अधिक जानकारी के लिये कृपया http://creativecommons.org/about/license/ साइट देखें।

"Introduction to DevOps: Transforming and Improving Operations” aims to help you develop a good working knowledge of the concept of DevOps, covering the foundation, principles, and practices of DevOps. This course will focus on the successful patterns used by high performance organizations over the past 10 years.

The core structure of this course is organized around the three basic principles of DevOps, otherwise known as the “Three Ways”. The “Three Ways” outline the values and philosophies that guide DevOps processes and practices:

• The First Way - This is a set of principles and practices that accelerate the delivery of IT services. Much of the material covered in this section will focus on Continuous Delivery and the extended principles and practices that lead to an accelerated flow.
• The Second Way - This is a set of principles and practices that amplify feedback loops.  In this section we will cover the concepts of creating a problem solving culture, as well as understanding monitoring, as it applies to DevOps. A significant portion of this section will also include monitoring business metrics, and will also explain how change management applies to DevOps.
• The Third Way - The patterns discussed in this section cover the concepts of organizational learning and safety culture. Items like blameless postmortems, resilience engineering, and systems thinking as they apply to DevOps will be covered in this course.

The goal of this course is to cover an extensive study of all of the DevOps principles and practices known to date, such that you can create transformative DevOps initiatives with incredible outcomes. This course also sets up the foundation for implementing the tools and technology that will be needed for further success and execution of a DevOps transformation. 

If you are a manager or a practitioner looking for guidelines on how to start transforming organizations, this course is for you. Upon completion, you should have a good understanding of the foundation, principles, and practices of DevOps. You should be able to continue your progress for an organizational transformation using the acquired skills set.

ME209.1x is a basic course in thermodynamics, designed for students of mechanical engineering. We will study the terms and concepts used in thermodynamics, with precise definitions. The three laws of thermodynamics (zeroth, first, and second) will be explored in detail, and the properties of materials will be studied. Many useful relations will be derived. The topics include:

• basic concepts and definitions
• the work interaction
• the first law, energy, and the heat interaction
• the zeroth law, temperature, and scales of temperature
• properties of gases and liquids, equations of state
• the second law, thermodynamic temperature scales, and entropy
• relations between properties
• open thermodynamic systems

There will be emphasis on problem-solving. Students will need to spend significant effort on solving exercises.

The course is designed for students in mechanical engineering. However, others (both engineers and scientists) are likely to find it useful. The course has also been found to be useful to teachers of thermodynamics.

Please note that this course is self-paced and you can enroll at any time.  At normal pace, this course requires 12 weeks of study, about 10 hours a week.

Now that you’ve mastered the basics, the Intermediate level is where C++ truly shines.

This course is the second in a three-part series designed to teach students some of the most important C++ concepts. This part focuses on how C++ interacts with memory, featuring concepts like pointers/memory addresses, heap memory management, and writing/reading files.

Knowing C++, you can create applications that will run on a wide variety of hardware platforms such as personal computers running Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X, as well as small form factor hardware such as IoT devices like the Raspberry PI and Arduino –based boards.

Many health complaints, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes or joint problems seem inescapable diseases of old-age, but originate mostly from our lifestyle. A lifestyle that is largely dictated by our environment. The mismatch between our 'old' genes - our evolutionary heritage - and the 'modern' environment is the reason that we cannot resist the constant stimuli that seduce us to make unhealthy choices. Do's and don'ts cannot help us. 

This health course will take a radically different approach to showing you how to secure a lifestyle, which will keep you healthy throughout the lifespan. We have to let the environment do the work for us. By making small changes at our home, work, school or neighbourhood, healthier choices can become easier and automated.

Practical assignments will give you the skills to re-design your daily environments to promote healthy, longer lives for you and your family, colleagues and neighbours with whom you share your re-designed environments. You will learn how to create your own healthy living zone!

We will take you on excursions to Copenhagen, Denmark and to Ghent, Belgium to show you hands-on how the environment can help you live longer, healthier and happier lives!

This course is brought to you by:

Video image ©Tijs Koelemeijer / info@tijskoelemeijer.com

Now more than ever, you are going to school, working, and living in communities with people who think, look, and have beliefs different from your own. This 45-minute course will give you the skills to bridge those divides and find common ground.

In this skills-based course, we will explore practical strategies and techniques to apply in your daily life. You will learn about the difference between dialogue, discussion, and debate; micro-affirmations; and how to be an ally.

If you are seeking to develop and practice these skills and apply them to build a more inclusive world, this course is for you. The course is also mobile-friendly.  

Living cells have unique functions that can be harnessed by engineers to tackle human problems in energy, water, food, and health.

Historically living cells were considered too difficult to predictably engineer because of their complexity, vulnerability, and continuous change in state. The elucidation of the design principles that underlie cell function along with increasing numbers of examples of hybrid cell based devices are slowly erasing that notion.

In this class you will be learn about these established and emerging cellular design principles and begin to view cells as machines. This knowledge can also then be applied to non-living devices that mimic and communicate with cells. You will also be introduced to current and emerging living/non-living biohybrid devices such as biohybrid robots and neural implants.

In this computer science course, you will learn how to set up and use Exchange Online, a hosted messaging application within Microsoft Office 365 that provides organizations with access to the full-featured version of Exchange Server. You will learn how to run your messaging system in Office 365. We will cover the various types of email recipients that are available and how to manage the email domains for them. We will guide you through the email protection capabilities of Office 365 and will show you how to manage the clients and mobile devices accessing their email in Office 365. You will learn about the archiving and security features in Exchange Online. Finally, you will learn how to move your existing messaging system to Office 365.

In this computer science course, we will explain the various services available in Office 365 including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Skype for Business Online and others. We will cover the various subscriptions options for small businesses, educational customers as well as enterprises. The first steps of setting up a tenant are critical for success and this course will explain in detail each step to ensure your Office 365 tenant and clients will be in good shape from day one. You will also learn how to work through some troubleshooting ideas to better prepare you if you get stuck with provisioning Office 365 Services.

This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Big Data, and the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Data Science. 

The open-source programming language R has for a long time been popular (particularly in academia) for data processing and statistical analysis. Among R's strengths are that it's a succinct programming language and has an extensive repository of third party libraries for performing all kinds of analyses. Together, these two features make it possible for a data scientist to very quickly go from raw data to summaries, charts, and even full-blown reports. However, one deficiency with R is that traditionally it uses a lot of memory, both because it needs to load a copy of the data in its entirety as a data.frame object, and also because processing the data often involves making further copies (sometimes referred to as copy-on-modify). This is one of the reasons R has been more reluctantly received by industry compared to academia.

The main component of Microsoft R Server (MRS) is the RevoScaleR package, which is an R library that offers a set of functionalities for processing large datasets without having to load them all at once in the memory. RevoScaleR offers a rich set of distributed statistical and machine learning algorithms, which get added to over time. Finally, RevoScaleR also offers a mechanism by which we can take code that we developed on our laptop and deploy it on a remote server such as SQL Server or Spark (where the infrastructure is very different under the hood), with minimal effort.

In this course, we will show you how to use MRS to run an analysis on a large dataset and provide some examples of how to deploy it on a Spark cluster or a SQL Server database. Upon completion, you will know how to use R for big-data problems.

Since RevoScaleR is an R package, we assume that the course participants are familiar with R. A solid understanding of R data structures (vectors, matrices, lists, data frames, environments) is required. For example, students should be able to confidently tell the difference between a list and a data frame, or what each object is generally a good representation for and how to subset it. Students should be familiar with basic programming concepts such as control flows, loops, functions and scope. Students should have a good understanding of how to write and debug R functions. Finally, students are expected to have a good understanding of data manipulation and data processing in R (e.g. functions such as merge, transform, subset, cbind, rbind, lapply, apply). Familiarity with 3rd party packages such as dplyr is also helpful.

¿Te gustaría escribir textos que te ayuden a lograr tus propósitos? Tal vez conseguir un aumento de salario, hacer una solicitud, obtener una beca o que te aprueben un proyecto. ¿Te gustaría convencer a compañeros, profesores o jefes para que consideren como válidos tus puntos de vista? Si respondiste afirmativamente, este MOOC es para ti.

Este curso está dirigido a estudiantes universitarios, profesionales y ciudadanos que estén interesados en mejorar su argumentación escrita. Escribir para convencer es una necesidad que enfrentamos en muy distintas interacciones, tanto en situaciones formales como cotidianas. En este MOOC conocerás las características de la argumentación y su diferenciación con otros modos de organización del discurso. También podrás identificar la estructura básica de los textos argumentativos, los tipos de argumentos y estrategias lingüísticas y discursivas que te ayudarán a ser más persuasivo. Te ofreceremos algunas pautas sobre cómo llevar a cabo los procesos de planeación, redacción, revisión y reescritura de los textos argumentativos.

This capstone includes the evaluation of the competencies and performance tasks, which define a successful cybersecurity defense.  

This capstone is part of the RITx Cybersecurity MicroMasters Program that is specifically designed to teach cybersecurity techniques and tools needed to effectively defend systems and networks of a corporate environment or enterprise.

In order to qualify for the MicroMasters Credential you will need to successfully earn a Verified Certificate in each of the four RITx Cybersecurity courses as well as pass this final capstone.

The capstone will test knowledge and skills across all 4 courses in the Cybersecurity MicroMasters Program. It will include hands-on lab exercises that build on the assessments in the previous four courses.

Digital forensics involves the investigation of computer-related crimes with the goal of obtaining evidence to be presented in a court of law.

In this course, you will learn the principles and techniques for digital forensics investigation and the spectrum of available computer forensics tools. You will learn about core forensics procedures to ensure court admissibility of evidence, as well as the legal and ethical implications. You will learn how to perform a forensic investigation on both Unix/Linux and Windows systems with different file systems. You will also be guided through forensic procedures and review and analyze forensics reports.

This offering is part of the RITx Cybersecurity MicroMasters Program that prepares students to enter and advance in the field of computing security.

If you are seeking CME credit, you must register with Charlotte Area Healthcare Education Center: CLICK HERE to register for CME

This medical course includes six modules which cover various areas of medical genomics including:

• Introduction to Genomics
• Variation
• Microbiome
• Pharmacogenomics
• in vitro (IVF) and Fetal medicine
• Oncology

Each module defines common terms, shows examples of data, and how healthcare is changing due to genomic insights. Each module also contains ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics in medical treatment. All modules contain five multiple choice questions to assess learning gains.

Interspersed in each module are multiple interviews with practicing healthcare workers who have first hand experience with medical genomics and how the standards of care are changing. This continuing medical education course contains information that satisfies the American Board of Medical Specialties six core competencies: Practice-based learning and improvement; Patient care and procedural skills; Systems-based practice; Medical knowledge; Interpersonal and communication skills; and Professionalism.

Course eligible for CME credit:
2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

• This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Carolinas HealthCare System/Charlotte AHEC and Davidson College . Carolinas HealthCare System/Charlotte AHEC is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
• Carolinas HealthCare System/Charlotte AHEC designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This course has been created in joint partnership with the Charlotte AHEC.

Courses offered via edX.org are not eligible for academic credit from Davidson College. A passing score in a DavidsonX course(s) will only be eligible for a verified certificate generated by edX.org.

Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers (LAFF) is packed full of challenging, rewarding material that is essential for mathematicians, engineers, scientists, and anyone working with large datasets. Students appreciate our unique approach to teaching linear algebra because:

• It’s visual.
• It connects hand calculations, mathematical abstractions, and computer programming.
• It illustrates the development of mathematical theory. 
• It’s applicable.

In this course, you will learn all the standard topics that are taught in typical undergraduate linear algebra courses all over the world, but using our unique method, you'll also get more! LAFF was developed following the syllabus of an introductory linear algebra course at The University of Texas at Austin taught by Professor Robert van de Geijn, an expert on high performance linear algebra libraries. Through short videos, exercises, visualizations, and programming assignments, you will study Vector and Matrix Operations, Linear Transformations, Solving Systems of Equations, Vector Spaces, Linear Least-Squares, and Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors. In addition, you will get a glimpse of cutting edge research on the development of linear algebra libraries, which are used throughout computational science.

MATLAB licenses will be made available to the participants free of charge for the duration of the course.

We invite you to LAFF with us!