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Rice University
Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics - The Big Picture
Take a trip with me in this the third and final course of this Economics 100 Specialization which is a direct adaptation from one of my courses I teach at Rice University. Specifically, in this course we're going to be focusing on Macroeconomics. What is Macroeconomics you might be asking? Well, you've come to the right place! We're going to be going over the big picture of economics- which is examining the measures we use to gauge the health of national economies and study the theories and policies aimed at improving economic health. In a nutshell, how can we use economics to make the world a better place? Through course lectures, quizzes, discussions, and problem sets, my hope is that you'll be able to digest economic news with a more discerning viewpoint, and have a more informed view about the cost and benefits of economic policy. Finally, my hope is that you've learned to look at the world around you through the eyes of an economist. By the end of this course you should be able to: 1. Describe how GDP is used to measure macroeconomic performance. 2. Describe how inflation is used to measure macroeconomic performance. 3. Describe how unemployment rates and participation rates are used to measure macroeconomic performance. 4. Identify the primary sources of economic growth and explain the observed cross- country differences in income per capita. 5. Define savings and explain the factors influencing financial flows and international trade. 6. Identify the function of the federal reserve, describe the relationship between nominal interest rates, money demand and money supply, and describe the relationship between exchange rates and Net Exports. 7. Explain the interaction between aggregate demand and aggregate supply to determine the price level, real GDP, and employment. 8. Describe the role of government and analyze policy responses to business cycle shocks
Johns Hopkins University
Program Design & Evaluation for Health Systems Strengthening
This course provides an introduction to designing and evaluating to strengthen the health system. After successful completion of all learning activities, course participants will be able to: 1. Define health systems strengthening 2. Describe health systems frameworks and how to incorporate them into evaluation planning 3. Describe how to design and prioritize implementation of health systems programs 4. Detail approaches to evaluate health systems programs, including data sources and study design 5. Introduce tools to assist with evaluation planning and simple models to assess health system intervention impact 6. Describe how to interpret health system evaluation findings and sustainability and scalability implications The development of this course was supported by a grant from Government Affairs Canada (GAC) for the Real Accountability, Data Analysis for Results (RADAR) project.
Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Epistemic Quest for Truth: Introduction to epistemology
The introduction of the internet and of social media has drastically changed our information position. We live in a time of ‘truth decay’: the distinction between opinions and facts is blurred, opinions have more impact than facts, and sources of factual information are increasingly distrusted. Since philosophers love truth, they deplore these tendencies. But what can they do about them? In this course, you will be invited to reflect on whether, in what sense and to what extent, 2500 years of normative epistemology, or theory of knowledge, can be put into practice and help to reduce truth decay. You’ll be invited, more specifically, to reflect on - the theory of knowledge, - the analysis of knowledge, - the possibility of knowledge, - the structure of knowledge, - the kinds of knowledge, and - the value of knowledge. Think of a pressing example of truth decay that strikes you and wonder how epistemology may go against it.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Theory of the Firm
In this course, we will begin covering the theory of the firm. Economists call this "The Economics of the Lemonade Stand." And that title makes perfect sense, since the concepts we cover can be used by anyone, from someone owning a lemonade stand, to a car manufacturing company, to a hair salon, to a burrito stand, etc. We will continue our discussion of the firm by focusing on those firms working in a perfectly competitive (or competitive) environment. Also, why is it that when you fly, the person sitting next to you in the plane probably paid a different price for the ticket than what you paid for it? And why does Starbucks charge so much for its coffee even though you can buy coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts for almost half of that price? We will finish our discussion of the firm by focusing on cases that should be more familiar to you than the perfect competition examples we have been using.
California Institute of the Arts
Grundlagen des Grafikdesigns
Grafikdesign ist präsenter als je zuvor! Wörter und Bilder – die Bausteine des Grafikdesigns – sind die Elemente, die den größten Teil des Inhalts der digitalen wie auch der gedruckten Welt beinhalten. Da Grafikdesign in unserem Leben sichtbarer und vorherrschender wird, wird Grafikdesign als Praxis in unserer Kultur immer wichtiger. In diesem Kurs lernen Sie anhand visueller Beispiele die Grundprinzipien des Grafikdesigns kennen: Bildgestaltung, Typografie, Komposition, Arbeiten mit Farbe und Form... Grundkenntnisse, die in allen Bereichen der Grafikdesignpraxis üblich sind. Ziel ist nicht, dass Sie sich nur ein Video von jemandem ansehen, der über Design spricht, stattdessen möchte ich, dass Sie Design MACHEN! Wenn Sie Designer werden möchten, müssen Sie Macher und Kommunikator sein. Dieser Kurs bietet Ihnen daher viele Möglichkeiten, um sich bei Übungen und praktischeren Projekten die Hände schmutzig zu machen. Am Ende dieses Kurses haben Sie gelernt, wie Sie die visuelle Darstellung durch eine Reihe von Bildgestaltungstechniken untersuchen und analysieren können. Sie werden die Grundprinzipien des Arbeitens mit Form, Farbe und Muster verstehen und sich mit den Begriffen und den Fähigkeiten der Typografie auseinandergesetzt haben; Außerdem verstehen Sie die Prinzipien der Komposition und des visuellen Kontrasts und haben diese angewandt. Wenn Sie den Kurs zusammen mit den optionalen (aber sehr empfohlenen) Aufgaben abschließen, verfügen Sie über grundlegende Fähigkeiten im Bereich Grafikdesign, die Sie auf Ihre eigenen Projekte anwenden oder einsetzen können, um einen speziellen Bereich des Grafikdesigns genauer zu untersuchen. Um diesen Kurs erfolgreich zu absolvieren, benötigen Sie Zugriff auf einen Computer. Sie können diesen Kurs zwar auch ohne Computer absolvieren, aber dann ist er schwieriger. Der Zugriff auf und Grundkenntnisse im Zusammenhang mit Adobe Creative Suite-Programmen wie Illustrator, Photoshop und InDesign sind hilfreich, insbesondere wenn Sie die optionalen Aufgaben absolvieren möchten.
Skillshare
DaVinci Resolve 19 Masterclass: Audio & Visual Polish
Take your video editing to the next level by mastering the art of audio and visual refinement in DaVinci Resolve 19. This intermediate course, taught by instructor Adi Singh, focuses on polishing your projects with professional-grade tools and techniques. You’ll learn how to clean up audio using tools like voice isolation and music remixer, and enhance clarity with audio transcription and retime scaling features. Then, step into the powerful Color Page to explore core grading tools like node trees, color wheels, curves, white balance, and primary corrections for vibrant, cinematic visuals. We’ll also walk through how to apply targeted adjustments using tools like the qualifier and power windows, plus you’ll learn to color grade footage from Sony, Canon, and Apple log profiles. By the end, you’ll elevate an edited video by applying both audio corrections and professional color grading techniques in a cohesive, hands-on project. If you want your videos to look and sound like they were made by a pro—this course is for you. Instructor bio: Adi is a videographer, content creator, and educator whose journey began in 2015 with a camera purchased to document travels in New Zealand. What started as a passion quickly grew into a career — today, Adi runs a video production company and a thriving YouTube channel, sharing creative knowledge with a global audience. Having built his own filmmaking career through online learning and self-teaching, Adi is passionate about giving back by teaching others. His courses are designed to make videography approachable and practical, helping learners gain the skills and confidence to create professional-quality content.
Kennesaw State University
Customer Centricity as Competitive Advantage - Jagdish Sheth
This course suggests why companies should be customer centric. Customer centricity provides a number of competitive advantages including revenue growth and cost reduction. The key concept is customer lifetime value (CLV) For example, a typical household spends more than $500,000 over 15 years at nearby grocery stores. Customer centricity is important, but most organizations struggle to implement it properly. This is due to internal operations, processes, and most importantly, cost accounting systems. Since the industrial age, the cost accounting focus has been very product centric, and there needs to be a shift customer centric accounting. This course, taught by Professor Jagdish Sheth, 2020 Padma Bhushan Award winner for Literature and Education, offers videos, articles, and recommendations from senior industry leaders on how to successfully implement customer centricity.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Managerial and Cost Accounting
Build practical skills in managerial and cost accounting to support stronger business decisions. In this course, you’ll learn how organizations use internal accounting information to plan operations, control costs, evaluate performance, and guide strategy. You’ll explore core managerial accounting concepts, compare managerial and financial accounting, examine the value chain, and work with budgeting, cost allocation, cost objects, and manufacturing costs. You’ll also study cost accounting tools such as cost behavior analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis, and job costing versus process costing. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to interpret key managerial and cost accounting concepts and apply them to realistic business scenarios. You’ll practice analyzing how accounting information supports pricing, planning, production, and operational decisions made by managers and business leaders. This course is designed for learners who want a practical foundation in internal decision-making tools used across accounting, finance, and management roles. Its emphasis on real-world application makes it especially useful for aspiring accountants, business professionals, and learners preparing for more advanced accounting study.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
生命安全与救援Life Safety and Rescue
人最宝贵的是生命，而在生命历程中充满着安全威胁与挑战。本课程以“珍爱生命、关注安全”为主线，期望通过该课程教学，努力增强学生在体育运动及野外活动中的安全防范意识，提高自我保护能力，掌握生存、自救和互救的基本技能，学会常见运动创伤的处置方法以及危险环境中的避险、自救和互助技能，具备应对突发事件的基本能力。
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Algorithm Design: Mastering Computational Problem Solving
Dive into the world of algorithm design, a fundamental aspect of computer science. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of various algorithmic design paradigms such as divide and conquer, greedy methods, dynamic programming, backtracking, and branch and bound. You will explore fundamental graph algorithms, gain practical experience in solving complex graph-related problems, and delve into randomized algorithms and complexity classes. Designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to tackle a wide range of computational challenges, the course covers the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of algorithm design principles. By the end of the course, you will be able to design efficient algorithms to solve diverse computational problems, preparing you for advanced studies and professional careers in software development, data analysis, and other IT fields.
University of Colorado Boulder
High Voltage Schottky and p-n Diodes
This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5722, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. This course is primarily aimed at first year graduate students interested in engineering or science, along with professionals with an interest in power electronics and semiconductor devices . It is the second course in the "Semiconductor Power Device" specialization that focusses on diodes, MOSFETs, IGBT but also covers legacy devices (BJTs, Thyristors and TRIACS) as well as state-of-the-art devices such as silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes and MOSFETs as well as Gallium Nitride (GaN) HEMTs. The specialization provides an overview of devices, the physics background needed to understand the device operation, the construction of a device circuit model from a physical device model and a description of the device fabrication technology including packaging. This second course provides a more detailed description of high-voltage Schottky and p-n diodes, starting with the semiconductor physics background needed to analyze both types of diodes. The main properties of crystalline semiconductors are presented that lead to the calculation of carrier densities and carrier currents, resulting in the drift-diffusion model for the semiconductors of interest. Next are a close look at Schottky diodes followed by p-n diodes, with a focus on the key figures of merit including the on-resistance, breakdown voltage and diode capacitance. For each diode, the analysis is then linked to the corresponding SPICE model. Finally, the power diode losses - both on-state losses and switching losses - are examined in a convertor circuit, including a comparison of silicon p-n diodes and 4H-SiC Schottky diodes. Learning objectives: • Provide students with a detailed understanding of High-Voltage Schottky and p-n diodes. • Students will be able to calculate key diode parameters based on their physical structure. • Students will be able to construct SPICE models for Schottky and p-n diodes.
Coursera
Crear Gráficos y Paneles con Microsoft Excel
En este proyecto, aprenderá a crear gráficos en Microsoft Excel para analizar los datos de ventas de una empresa de ejemplo. Aprenderá a crear tablas dinámicas para evaluar diferentes aspectos de la información de ventas y representar la información de las tablas como gráficos de líneas, barras y circulares. Al crear los gráficos, aprenderá a formatearlos para que se puedan interpretar fácilmente y luego combinará los gráficos en un panel para proporcionar una visión global de los datos de ventas.
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Principles of Sustainable Finance
Finance is widely seen as an obstacle to a better world. Principles of Sustainable Finance explains how the financial sector can be mobilized to counter this. Using finance as a means to achieve social goals we can divert the planet and its economy from its current path to a world that is sustainable for all. Throughout this course, you will learn about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, how social and environmental factors should not be regarded as externalities, you will learn more about sustainable banking and asset management, about effective engagement, sustainable scenario analysis and long-term value creation. At the end of this course you will understand how sustainable finance can be used as a tool to steer the sustainability transition.
Institut Mines-Télécom
Traitement d'images : introduction au filtrage
Ce MOOC sur le traitement d'images est à l’intersection de plusieurs domaines scientifiques et techniques : les mathématiques, la physique, l’informatique. De la ligne de fabrication jusqu’au scanner médical en passant par les satellites. Les images nous servent à extraire des informations omniprésentes aujourd’hui. Elles doivent être systématiquement traitées pour s’affranchir des mauvaises conditions d’acquisition, afin d’isoler les objets pertinents et de les analyser. Les traitements présentés (filtrage , rehaussement, suppression du bruit) sont le point de départ de la chaîne d’analyse. Ils permettent par exemple le relevé des diagnostics en imagerie médicale, la détection de pièce défectueuse sur une ligne de production ou encore la reconnaissance des plaques d’immatriculation sur les radars. Dans ce MOOC, vous prendrez connaissance des bases nécessaires en mathématiques et en informatique avec le langage Python. Vous apprendrez à manipuler les algorithmes et la programmation des opérations élémentaires du traitement d’images : charger et observer une image, analyser sa qualité, améliorer sa netteté et ses contrastes, ajouter du flou ou détecter des contours. Pour suivre ce cours, des bases du langage de programmation Python sont nécessaires : boucles, opérateur logique, vectorisation des opérations , définition de fonction, tableaux et numpy. Une attestation de suivi avec succès est attribuée par Coursera aux apprenants réussissant à obtenir une note supérieure à 50 %. Ce cours a été créé avec le soutien de la Fondation Patrick & Lina Drahi.
Simplilearn
Docker training for Beginners
This comprehensive course on Docker Fundamentals equips you with the skills to build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Docker. Begin by understanding the core concepts of Docker, its installation on Windows, and the architecture of containers. Learn to create and manage containers, use Docker Compose and Docker Swarm for orchestration, and write Dockerfiles to automate deployments. Progress to hands-on experience with Docker CLI commands, networking, and real-world comparisons between Docker, Kubernetes, and virtual machines for optimized DevOps workflows. To be successful in this course, you should have a basic understanding of system administration, software development, and command-line tools. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Explain Docker architecture and create containerized applications - Automate builds using Dockerfiles and deploy with Compose and Swarm - Use Docker commands and networking to manage real-world environments - Compare Docker with Kubernetes and virtual machines for DevOps efficiency Ideal for DevOps engineers, system administrators, and software developers.
LearnKartS
Core Java - Foundations
Ready to start your coding career with one of the world's most versatile programming languages? Then this Core Java Foundations course is the ideal starting place. Designed for complete beginners, job changers, and ambitious developers, this hands-on course will take you from your first Java statement to confidently constructing object-oriented programs. Through videos, real-world examples, and practical assignments, you'll get a solid understanding of Java syntax, variables, operators, conditionals, loops, and functions. However, this course goes beyond the fundamentals, delving into strong concepts such as inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, exception handling, and memory management, all of which are used in real-world programming. You'll also gain real-world experience with Java packages and designing reusable code, preparing you for more advanced subjects like Big Data, enterprise apps, and Android development. This Core Java course will provide you with the solid foundation you need to excel in any programming environment, whether you're looking for a tech job, getting ready for job interviews, or just learning to code. By the end, Java will be more than just a language you learn; it will be a language you can speak. Enroll now.