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While the advances in genomics promise to usher a new era in medical practice and create a major paradigm shift in patient care, the ethical, legal and social impact of genomic medicine will be equally significant. The information and potential use of genomic discoveries are no longer issues left for scientists and medical professionals to handle, but have become ones for the public at large. Rarely a day passes without a genomics-related story reported in the media. By the end of this course, students will be able to better understand the field of genomics; be familiar with various online databases and resources; and understand and appreciate the medical, social, ethical, and legal issues associated with the availability of personal genomic information.

Given the diversity of the topics and the specific expertise required to cover each, this is a unique cross-disciplinary course where faculty from different disciplines including genetics, computational sciences, bioinformatics, genetic counseling, bioethics, law, and business will participate in lecturing. We have assembled a team of experts from various departments at Georgetown University and other institutions, to teach this comprehensive online genomics course.

For a detailed description of the weekly topics, see the course outline.

Are you fascinated by Geosciences and willing to take the challenge of predicting the nature and behavior of the Earth subsurface? This is your course!

In a voyage through the Earth, Geoscience: the Earth and its Resources will explore the Earth interior and the processes forming mountains and sedimentary basins. You will understand how the sediments are formed, transported, deposited and deformed.

You will develop knowledge on the behavior of petroleum and water resources.

The course has an innovative approach focusing on key fundamental processes, exploring their nature and quantitative interactions. It will be shown how this acquired knowledge is used to predict the nature and behavior of the Earth subsurface.

This is your ideal first step as a future Geoscientists or professional to upgrade your knowledge in the domain of Earth Sciences.

*** Este curso será dado em português. ***

Um dos desafios enfrentados diariamente pelas instituições públicas, organizações não governamentais, agências de desenvolvimento e outros agentes que promovem o desenvolvimento econômico e social na América Latina e no Caribe é transformar propostas em realidades concretas que melhorem o bem-estar da sociedade e permitam que esses resultados sejam alcançados dentro do prazo e com os recursos disponíveis.

Este curso apresenta conceitos e ferramentas que podem ser aplicados na gestão de projetos e gerar uma mudança substancial para atingir os objetivos propostos. Assim, este MOOC se propõe a fortalecer a capacidade de gestão de projetos de desenvolvimento na região para que sejam executados de forma eficaz e efetiva.

Este curso inclui casos práticos que ajudam a entender os principais conceitos e ferramentas para o gerenciamento de projetos, apresentações de pessoal certificado como Project Management Professional (PMP)^®, com ampla experiência no assunto, fóruns de discussão e leituras selecionadas.

A base conceitual deste curso é a metodologia PM4R (Project Management for Results), desenvolvida pelo Instituto Interamericano de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (INDES), do BID, cujos conteúdos baseiam-se no Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) – Fifth Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2013.

Embora essas melhores práticas tenham estado presentes por muitos anos em projetos empresariais privados, nos últimos anos, o BID tem liderado o processo de sua incorporação progressiva ao setor público e aos projetos de desenvolvimento, contribuindo para a construção de realidades que melhoram vidas.

O INDES, como um Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.), foi aprovado pelo Project Management Institute (PMI)^® para fornecer 30 unidades de desenvolvimento profissional (PDUs), caso você obtenha o certificado deste curso.

Se tiver qualquer dúvida, envie um e-mail para idbx@iadb.org.

A preparação deste curso foi financiada pelo Fundo de Fortalecimento da Capacidade Institucional (FISC), graças à contribuição do governo da República Popular da China.

PMBOK é uma marca registrada do Project Management Institute, Inc.

¿Qué se entiende por gestión para resultados en el desarrollo?

¿Cuáles son los componentes del ciclo de gestión pública que aborda la gestión para resultados en el desarrollo?

¿Cuáles son los principales desafíos en América Latina y el Caribe para la implementación de la gestión para resultados en el desarrollo?

¿Cuál es el rol de los funcionarios públicos y cuál es el rol de la ciudadanía en la gestión para resultados?

Este curso da respuesta a las anteriores preguntas y, a modo de introducción, brinda el marco conceptual de la gestión para resultados en el desarrollo en los gobiernos subnacionales.

Los países de América Latina y el Caribe enfrentan considerables desafíos de la gestión pública, tales como el diseño de políticas públicas que tengan en consideración los puntos de vista de los diferentes actores; las demandas ciudadanas y los escasos recursos disponibles; la asignación de los recursos financieros; la calidad de los servicios públicos o el seguimiento y la evaluación de la gestión, entre otros.

La gestión para resultados en el desarrollo y su enfoque de gerencia contribuyen al abordaje de estos desafíos mediante el tratamiento integral de las distintas etapas del ciclo de la gestión pública, el uso de la información para la toma de decisiones y el empleo de múltiples instrumentos y metodologías.

*** Ce cours sera enseigné en français. ***

Au sujet de ce cours:

Jour après jour les institutions publiques, les organisations non gouvernementales, les agences de développement ainsi que d'autres acteurs travaillant en faveur du développement économique et social en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes, font face à un défi majeur. Il s'agit de savoir comment transformer les propositions en réalités concrètes qui puissent améliorer le bien-être de la société et d'atteindre les résultats avec le temps et les ressources disponibles. Ce cours présente les concepts et les outils qui peuvent être appliqués à la gestion de projet, pouvant générer d'importantes améliorations pour atteindre les objectifs fixés. Ce MOOC vise donc à renforcer les capacités de gestion des projets de développement dans la région afin qu'ils soient mis en œuvre efficacement. Ce cours inclut des études de cas qui aident à comprendre les concepts et les outils clés pour la gestion de projet. Le cours comprend également des présentations de Project Management Professionals (PMP)^® ayants une grande expérience dans le sujet, des forums de discussion, ainsi que des conférences sélectionnées.

La base conceptuelle de ce cours est la méthodologie de PM4R (Gestion de projet axée sur les résultats), développée par l'Institut de développement économique et social (INDES) de la BID. Les contenus sont basés sur les travaux du Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK^® Guide)- Fifth Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2013.

Bien que les meilleures pratiques soient présentes depuis de nombreuses années dans des projets privés d'entreprise, la BID a conduit dernièrement un processus pour leur incorporation progressive dans le secteur public, ainsi que dans les projets de développement, le tout afin d'améliorer la qualité de vie des habitants de la région.

L'INDES, en tant que Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.), a reçu l'autorisation du Project Management Institute (PMI)^® pour fournir 30 unités de développement professionnel (PDUs) en cas d'obtention du certificat du cours.

Si vous avez une question, écrivez-nous à idbx@iadb.org.

La préparation de ce cours a été financée par le Fonds pour le renforcement des capacités institutionnelles (ICSF), grâce à la contribution du Gouvernement de la République populaire de Chine.

PMBOK est une marque déposée par le Project Management Institute, Inc.

*** Este curso será impartido en español. ***

Uno de los retos que enfrentan día a día las instituciones públicas, organismos no gubernamentales, agencias de desarrollo y otros actores que promueven el desarrollo económico y social en América Latina y el Caribe, es cómo transformar propuestas en realidades concretas que mejoren el bienestar de la sociedad y logren que estos resultados se obtengan dentro del tiempo y recursos  disponibles.

Este curso presenta conceptos y herramientas que pueden ser aplicados en la gestión de proyectos y que pueden generar un cambio sustancial para alcanzar los objetivos propuestos. De esta manera, este MOOC se propone fortalecer la capacidad de gestión de proyectos de desarrollo en la Región para que sean ejecutados en forma eficiente y efectiva.

Este curso incluye casos prácticos que ayudan a comprender los conceptos y herramientas clave para la gestión de proyectos, presentaciones por parte de certificados Project Management Professional  (PMP)®con amplia experiencia en el tema, foros de discusión y lecturas seleccionadas.

La base conceptual de este curso es la metodología PM4R (Project Management for Results), desarrollada por el Instituto Interamericano de Desarrollo Económico y Social (INDES) del BID, cuyos contenidos están basados en Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK® Guide)- Fifth Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2013.

Aunque estas buenas prácticas han estado presentes durante muchos años en los proyectos corporativos privados, en los últimos años el BID ha estado liderando el proceso de su incorporación progresiva en el sector público y en los proyectos de desarrollo, contribuyendo a la construcción de realidades que mejoran vidas.

El INDES, como Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.), ha sido aprobado por el Project Management Institute (PMI)® para otorgar 30 unidades de desarrollo profesional (PDUs) si obtienes el certificado de este curso.

Si tienes alguna pregunta, escríbenos a idbx@iadb.org 

Este MOOC ha sido certificado por Quality Matters (QM), organización sin ánimo de lucro reconocida como líder en el aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación en línea. QM ha desarrollado un conjunto de estándares de calidad para el diseño de cursos cuyo cumplimiento ha sido certificado en este MOOC a través de un riguroso proceso de revisión de pares expertos para garantizar la efectividad del aprendizaje.

La preparación de este curso fue financiada por el Fondo de Fortalecimiento de la Capacidad Institucional (ICSF), gracias al aporte del Gobierno de la República Popular de China.

PMBOK es una marca registrada del Project Management Institute, Inc.

¿Sabes qué es la gestión de riesgos? ¿Conoces su importancia en la actualidad? ¿Te gustaría conocer acerca de su impacto en el desarrollo sostenible de una organización? En un mundo globalizado, la incertidumbre hace parte de la gestión directiva y organizacional en contextos dinámicos y cambiantes; por ejemplo, los acontecimientos históricos que llevaron a la crisis económica en Norteamericana y en Europa, el aumento progresivo del terrorismo y la inestabilidad reputacional en las redes de información, entre otros acontecimientos, hace que las organizaciones necesiten gestionar los escenarios que pondrían en peligro su sostenibilidad económica y social.

Es así, como la Gestión de Riesgo, cobra vital relevancia en el ámbito Organizacional actual, entendiendo que una organización sostenible es aquella que gestiona sus riesgos y aprovecha las oportunidades logrando el balance económico, social y ambiental para el cumplimiento de su estrategia y el desarrollo integral armónico de la Organización. 

A través de este MOOC comprenderás la importancia de la Gestión de Riesgos para asegurar la operativización exitosa de la estrategia de una organización, entendiendo que la identificación y gestión de las oportunidades y los riesgos garantizará que el desarrollo organizacional y el cumplimiento de la estrategia sean lo más armónicos y sostenibles posibles.

En el curso veremos una definición analítica de la Gestión Participativa y cómo implantar y medir el grado de despliegue de las prácticas de alta implicación (HIWP) en las empresas.

También analizaremos como se pueden medir los resultados de estas prácticas.

MOOC ¿Quieres aprender cómo desde la Gestión Territorial, la Gobernabilidad para el Turismo, puedes adquirir herramientas para afrontar con éxito los retos de cara a un posconflicto?

Este curso fue diseñado por el Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo con el apoyo de FONTUR, constituye un instrumento que permitirá fortalecer las habilidades de los Gestores Regionales del Turismo, sus socios naturales y estratégicos, aprehender herramientas de gestión de lo público desde la óptica del sector, potenciarlo a través de la relación y gestión en clave de desarrollo integral del entorno para fortalecer el enfoque productivo en entornos de paz.

Do you ever struggle to manage work and the rest of your life? You are not alone. Men and women all over the world are trying to figure out the impossible work-life “balance” and instead achieve success in all parts of their lives. Join Catalyst experts to learn the importance of inclusive leadership in creating flexible—and productive—work environments. Through research and real-world examples from a variety of situations, you will learn strategies for managing workplace flexibility, and you will learn how you have the power as an individual, a team member, or a leader to make positive change. You will understand the value of a flexible work environment and see what sets successful flexible workers and managers apart. With short quizzes, compelling case studies, and engaging videos, you will build your knowledge each section and share your experience with other learners on topics such as communication, technology, myth busting, challenges, and solutions. Throughout the course you develop a Personal Work-Life Plan to help apply the strategies taught and effectively manage your own work and life responsibilities or that of others.

Wondering how to host your apps in the cloud? Learn how to create a host environment with Azure App Service Web Apps, the platform that gives you the freedom to build and deploy wherever you want, using the tools, applications, and frameworks of your choice. Plus, it scales automatically when you need it to. Bring your basic programming experience and join experts who will teach you how to use the Azure portal to create, deploy, and manage Azure App Service Web Apps. Get a tour of the Azure portal, create a free Azure account, and then dive into application analytics. Work through a continuous deployment scenario that links a GitHub repository to Azure, and use Azure Resource Manager to implement an automated deployment. Then, configure diagnostics and logging in your deployed application as you learn to detect and correct issues in your Azure web apps.

In this hands-on, self-paced course, each lab guides you step by step through a real development scenario, with tasks that are key to your job as a developer. Plus, get helpful resource documents and videos that support the labs and provide further learning opportunities.

Global Business in Practice helps you understand the impact globalization has on global trade and how companies need to react. Business schools are very good at compiling theories; we add value by combining those theories with the practical realities faced by top executives and exploring the management of global business from their perspectives. Leading industry experts will be featured throughout the course, including:

• Joseph P. Baratta, Global Head of Private Equity at Blackstone;
• Maximo J. Blandon, Managing Director at Stephens Inc.;
• Mark G. Del Rosso, Executive Vice President & COO of Audi of America;
• Thomas J. DeRosa, CEO and Director of Welltower;
• Fabrizio Freda, President & CEO of The Estée Lauder Companies;
• Franck J. Moison, Vice Chairman at Colgate-Palmolive;
• Roxana Pierce, Of Counsel at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP;
• Monica Vidal, Partner at MVS Global Consulting Services;
• Stephanie von Friedeburg, CIO and VP for Information and Technology Solutions at the World Bank Group.

You will understand the horizontal nature of practical problem solving rather than the vertical work and learning that traditionally happens in functional silos.

Our goal is that, through this course, you will come to explicitly understand that globalization affects every country regardless of its economic, political or social situation. In this context, as countries endeavor to adapt their policies to new demands, companies deploy strategies to attain an increasingly globally integrated production system. The globalized world forces us to seek and develop appropriate ways to undergo this process. Today, discussions about the advantages and disadvantages of globalization are insignificant and unimportant in the face of the great need to determine the essential conditions for countries, companies and individuals to really benefit from it.

A fundamental knowledge of core business disciplines is clearly a “must” for aspiring global leaders, but the complexity of the global world requires us to push the envelope and extend the limits of what is possible. Join us as we explore the future of global business leadership.

This introductory global health course aims to frame global health's collection of problems and actions within a particular biosocial perspective. It develops a toolkit of interdisciplinary analytical approaches and uses them to examine historical and contemporary global health initiatives with careful attention to a critical sociology of knowledge. Four physician-anthropologists - Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman, Anne Becker, and Salmaan Keshavjee - draw on experience working in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Americas to investigate what the field of global health comprises, how global health problems are defined and constructed, and how global health interventions play out in both expected and unexpected ways.

The course seeks to inspire and teach the following principles:

A global awareness. This course aims to enable learners to recognize the role of distinctive traditions, governments, and histories in shaping health and well being. In addition, rather than framing a faceless mass of poor populations as the subject of global health initiatives, the course uses ethnographies and case studies to situate global health problems in relation to the lives of individuals, families, and communities.

A foundation in social and historical analysis. The course demonstrates the value of social theory and historical analysis in understanding health and illness at individual and societal levels.

An ethical engagement. Throughout the course, learners will be asked to critically evaluate the ethical frameworks that have underpinned historical and contemporary engagement in global health. Learners will be pushed to consider the moral questions of inequality and suffering as well as to critically evaluate various ethical frameworks that motivate and structure attempts to redress these inequities.

A sense of inspiration and possibility. While the overwhelming challenges of global health could all too easily engender cynicism, passivity, and helplessness, learners will observe that no matter how complex the field of global health and no matter how steep the challenges, it is possible to design, implement, and foster programs and policies that make enormous positive change in the lives of the world’s poorest and suffering people.

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Disease has no respect for country borders and increased global travel has fueled the spread of infectious disease, as evidenced by the Ebola virus epidemic. Chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, initially confined to the developed world, now exist side by side with malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Global warming is widening the endemicity of vector-borne diseases.

In this course, we will explore ways to leverage information technology to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. Technology is a driving force that sweeps across nations even faster than disease and with the spread of mobile phones, which bring computational power and data to our fingertips, new paradigms in tracking and battling disease have been discovered.

This course will explore innovations in information systems in developing countries, and focus not only on the importance of technology, but also on broader issues necessary for its success, such as quality improvement, project management, and leadership skills. Ultimately, health care delivery systems require fundamental and sound operations, such as physical infrastructure and supply-chain management, to deliver high-quality care. Technology is simply a tool to help facilitate this process.

The quality of care theme is critical to this course. The first step stakeholders in health systems should focus on prior to introducing an innovation is to establish a culture of quality improvement and patient safety. An information system can then play a facilitative role by enabling care coordination, tracking processes and outcomes, informing decision making, and fostering learning through data analysis.

An information system without an accompanying organizational transformation risks reinforcing the same failed processes. Using technology to improve access to care without any other quality improvement elements will yield the same and not necessarily better results, but more of them. Innovations need to address gaps in quality and demonstrate improvement in health outcomes, otherwise they won’t sustain or scale.

Lastly, we will discuss our attempts to leverage troves of data to define best practice and how we must keep the patient perspective and health at the center of everything we do.

This course is targeted toward individuals interested in designing or implementing a health information and communication technology (ICT) solution in the developing world. Implementing a health information technology project requires multidisciplinary teams. Thus, with this course, we hope to bring together individuals from a variety of disciplines—computer science, medicine, engineering, public health, policy, and business.

This introductory course, first delivered in September 2016, explores how multidisciplinary teams can work more effectively together to address global health needs.

Whether you seek a career in international health or medicine, volunteer to serve those less fortunate, or work in an institutional setting such as a clinic, hospital, or public health agency, it is important to understand the sources and movement of diseases.

The world continues to grow smaller, with international travel, a global economy, and a changing environment contributing to the emergence of new diseases and the spread of existing ones. Understanding these connections -- and how they impact the farthest reaches of the globe – is becoming an essential skill in international development, humanitarian assistance, business and commerce, and at all levels of healthcare.

The 2013-2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa offers a window through which global health can be examined in a variety of disciplines. A Toronto medical center and Dallas hospital are far removed from the outbreaks of SARS in China and Ebola in Guinea, yet those diseases arrived and created crises within these facilities and beyond. Research has shown that health security contributes to civil order, economic growth, and stable governments. It has also demonstrated that every nation bears the economic and human burden of disease, illness, and injury.

The director general of the World Health Organization, multiple world leaders, and innumerable health authorities have called for greater awareness and leadership in global health. That journey begins here.

In this global history course, you will learn not just by reading and watching lectures, but also by analyzing historical documents and applying your knowledge. The core of this course is a series of weekly lab assignments in which you and your fellow students will work in teams to use historical knowledge from the course to solve problems and develop new connections and interpretations of primary historical materials.

The course begins in 1300 AD at the height of the Silk Road, the triumphs of the Mongol Empire, and the spread of one of the most devastating contagions of all time, the Black Death. It examines the emergence of an international system of competitive empires and its effect on trade and exchange. We look at the Age of Revolution, and discuss industrialization during the 1800s. The course concludes with a close look at the 20th century and current-day globalization.

Course themes include migration and statelessness, economic integration, warfare and conflict, the transformation of the ecological balance, and cultural responses and innovations. To grapple with these themes, we explore first-hand perspectives of historical actors through a collection of texts and images.

This course integrates and actively supports groups of refugee learners in refugee camps in the Horn of Africa and Jordan, collaborating with students at Princeton, in a global learning partnership with InZone at the University of Geneva. This partnerships benefits from collaboration with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Azraq and Kakuma refugee camps, CARE in Azraq refugee camp and British Council in Amman, and from financial support from Princeton University, the University of Geneva and the Ford Foundation. We express our sincere appreciation to all who contribute to the implementation of this global learning project.

Course material
For you to engage in this experience, Global History Lab will provide you with historical content and a series of collaborative lab activities. Although the lectures are designed to be self-contained, we recommend (but do not require) that you refer to the book Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From 1000 CE to the Present (Fourth Edition) (vol. 2), which was written specifically for this course.

When you notice inequality in your everyday life, do you ever wonder where it comes from, and what keeps it going?

This sociology course introduces you to core concepts of class, gender, and racial inequality, and an approach to studying complex forms of inequality called intersectionality. Featuring interviews with top scholars and discussion of the full-length award winning documentary, China Blue, which follows the life of a young seventeen-year-old worker from Sichuan province, to a Chinese jeans factory, this course will transform your perspective on yourself and others.

No previous knowledge required. Global Sociology is highly recommended.

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In this marketing course, you will gain an understanding of the foundations, scope, and challenges of global marketing, as well as the cultural environments of global markets.

Organizations and businesses are always facing new challenges including slow domestic market growth, international competition, deregulation of formerly protected industries, short product life cycles, and emergence of global brands. This course will equip you with skills to understand and handle current and developing challenges in global marketing and how to create and implement successful strategies.

This course will help you understand the strategic implications of segmentation, targeting, and positioning and how they are developed within the context of customer, competitor, and context analysis. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of disruptive positioning strategies and how firms can utilize such strategies to their advantage.

You will develop integrated marketing strategies taking into consideration the problems and perspectives of marketing across national boundaries and within foreign countries. You’ll learn to evaluate and prioritize information that influences marketing decisions and deal with ambiguous information when engaged in business globally. You will also gain understanding of the strategic implications of the Country of Origin Effect and how this influences customer’s information processing of firms and brands.

This globalization course  focuses on the ways market-led macro-economic reforms associated with globalization (such as free trade agreements and privatization initiatives) have come together with much more micro innovations in how personal behavior is organized by market forces (rethinking education as a personal investment practice, for example, or outsourcing dating to for-profit companies). 
At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Describe the main debates and controversies surrounding globalization 
• Analyze the ties and tensions of uneven global development
• Understand the growing impact of global market integration
• Synthesize knowledge of market globalization with your own experiences of market forces and market reforms
• Evaluate the way in which market forces define and delimit personal choices and everyday life globally
• Develop capacity to respond and reflect personally amidst the ties and tensions of market-led globalization.

This course is adapted from a similar class offered by the Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Social Sciences, a fully online degree completion program from the University of Washington.

The experience of war has changed fundamentally – not only for those fighting and reporting, but also for those on the home front. High-tech nations wage wars from a distance using satellite-guided weaponry while non-state military actors, terrorist organizations, and citizen journalists have increasingly added new voices and visual perspectives to the conversation about conflict.

The ubiquity of smartphones, internet access, and social media transports the experience and complexity of war directly into our lives. Cyberspace offers greater freedoms and access to information at the same time as we discover a dramatic global rise of cyber espionage, internet censorship, and surveillance.

In this course, we map this emerging new terrain where violent conflict, information technology, and global media intersect and where the old distinctions between battlefront and home front, between soldier and civilian, between war and entertainment, and between public and private are being redrawn. 

Considering these changes, this course engages with questions surrounding:

• The relationship between media, information technology, and war
• How violent conflict is presented in the media and the responsibilities of journalists during wartime
• The effect of instantaneous, worldwide reporting on battle and the politics of conflict
• How we can understand and critically engage with media and information technology

In order to engage with these questions, this course is taught through a number of conventional and unconventional forms of learning methods and activities. These include lecture videos, questionnaires, and discussion fora. But it also includes practical, experiential elements taught through crowdsourcing, individual research, critical viewing, media and image analysis, and surveys. Combined, these activities allow you to gain fresh and timely insights into what happens beneath the surface of the screen in front of you. They enable you to gain a deeper understanding of how the politics of today's wars play out on and behind the digital screens in our hypermediatized age.