Courses tagged with "Beams" (147)

Creativity is an acquired skill that improves with practice. Creativity changes the world and enriches people’s lives. It takes two skills: “discovery” - discovering new ideas, and “delivery” – implementing ideas, using proven tools and methods. This course, on “discovery”, will provide proven tools that will help you discover an endless stream of creative ideas.

This course deals directly with your ability for creativity which is a critical skill in any field. It focuses on divergent thinking, the ability to develop multiple ideas and concepts to solve problems. Through a series of creativity building exercises, short lectures, and readings, learners develop both an understanding of creativity and increase their own ability.

For anyone who would like to apply their technical skills to creative work ranging from video games to art installations to interactive music, and also for artists who would like to use programming in their artistic practice.

Let’s make history together - again! 让我们再一次创造历史！

Learn about the ten domains of cybersecurity through the lens of subject area experts from companies such as Coca Cola, SAP, and Macy's.

Learn critical concepts and practical methods to support research data planning, collection, storage and dissemination.

Apply the learned algorithms and techniques for data mining from the previous courses in the Data Mining Specialization to solve interesting real-world data mining challenges.

Learn how to transform information from a format efficient for computation into a format efficient for human perception, cognition, and communication. Explore elements of computer graphics, human-computer interaction, perceptual psychology, and design in addition to data processing and computation.

What problem should you be working on? Finding a big problem to solve can help you find opportunities to make a big impact through design. Starting at the beginning of the design process, you’ll discover strategies for creatively brainstorming problems to work on and challenges to address. You’ll learn commonly used techniques to discover user needs, goals, and values that lead to untapped opportunities for design. In this course, you’ll learn techniques for unearthing ideas based on real world settings and learn how to turn your observations into a concrete point of view as a designer.

This course provides an overview of the Design Thinking process and tools used for business innovation.

Combine fundamental concepts with hands-on design challenges to become a better designer.

This course provides you with opportunities to integrate and apply your information security knowledge.

The course explores visionary and practical concepts of city design and planning, past and present, and how design can address such looming challenges as urban population growth, climate change and rising sea levels. Participants will be encouraged to make proposals for city design and development, starting with their own immediate environment.

Designing technologies that facilitate learning. Beyond usability, technology for learning has to engage, trigger prior knowledge, prompt for reflection, maintain a balance between too much cognitive load and too little challenge, and scaffold the development of skills.

You will never know whether you have an effective user experience until you have tested it with users. In this course, you’ll learn how to design experiments that compare design alternatives, techniques for running experiments, and how to analyze data from these experiments. You'll learn specific measures and concrete questions to ask users that will deliver meaningful results for your designs. This course will cover both fundamentals of experimental design as well as common web implementations, including A/B testing.

Learn the basics of creating data products using Shiny, R packages, and interactive graphics. This is the ninth course in the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization.

El curso es bilingüe español-inglés, con videos y materiales en ambos idiomas. Lectures and materials are provided both in Spanish and English.

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

Learn about emerging trends and technologies in K-12 virtual instruction. Join us as we explore this dynamic landscape and investigate how we can more deeply engage students in the virtual classroom through the use of innovative practices and technologies.

Government works best when citizens are directly engaged in policymaking and public service delivery. What conditions are necessary for inclusive and effective citizen engagement? Can it positively improve people's lives? This course provides an overview of citizen engagement, critically analyzing how it can be leveraged most effectively to achieve development results.