edX Courses

Introduction to User Experience

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The user experience is defined as the result of the internal states (eg expectations, predispositions) of a user, the characteristics of a system (eg complexity, usability) and the context of use of the interaction between the user and the system (eg in organization, in private).Organizations value innovative and well-designed user experiences for their customers and employees, whether they are using their websites, mobile applications, self-service kiosks in store, or various internal interfaces. The practice of UX design uses the user-centered approach and covers 3 main activities: UX research (getting to know the users and their contexts), activities surrounding ideation (such as "design thinking" and participatory design) and prototyping. This course teaches methods, techniques and digital tools specific to UX in today's business context.A UX professional is able to intervene in the design process of a digital product or service in order to ensure a user-centered approach. This allows the organization to respond to the expectations of its users. A UX professional mobilizes a range of interview and observation methodologies until the development of a prototyped interface.UXPA defines user experience professionals as specialists involved in research, design and evaluation of products and services. Conceptually, this notion of user experience emerges from the human-centered design approach in the field of human machine interaction and human factors in industrial engineering.Research corresponds to the activity of learning about user interfaces and the context in which they will be used.Evaluation corresponds to user observation when using these interfaces, as much before, during and after the design and development of the product.Design corresponds to the standards and principles of design of digital products or services offering optimal user experiences.Overall objective of the MOOC:Discuss what the user experience is in the context of business practice

Enabling Teamwork with Microsoft Teams

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In this course you will learn how to enable Microsoft Teams in Office 365.  The course illustrates the value of Teams collaboration and includes tips and tricks for getting the most of out of Teams.   You will also learn how to configure Teams. Specifically, you will learn how to:Enable usersConfigure Teams settingsPlan for network usageConfigure voice functionalityThe course also discusses advanced configuration of Teams including compliance and calling features. The course is intended for IT professionals that manage an Office 365 deployment.

Logística agrícola sostenible

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De acuerdo con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura - FAO-, se espera que para el 2050 la producción mundial de alimentos aumente en un 60% para alimentar a más de 9.000 millones de personas en todo el mundo. La industria agrícola es el pilar fundamental de la sociedad, por ende, es el centro de la producción económica humana que influye directamente en el desarrollo de un país y actualmente, presenta grandes retos que requieren cambios contundentes, rápidos y prácticos, expande tus conocimientos en logística y cómo el producto viaja del campo a la mesa este curso en línea. En el curso de Logística Agrícola Sostenible, podrás aprender temas relacionados a: agricultura sostenible, buenas prácticas, beneficios en cada eslabón de la red de valor, tendencias tecnológicas y su aplicación, con el fin de apuntar a la sostenibilidad y ser eco - amigables con el medio ambiente.

Transforming Your Virtual Team Culture

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In this course, you’ll explore the five enablers of humor in remote teams: safety, connectedness, agency, growth, and purpose. You’ll learn the significance of each enabler, how they create the conditions for joy to flourish, and how to amplify them. Next, you’ll take a diagnostic designed to help you understand which enablers your team members most naturally channel, and where you have the greatest opportunity to grow. Finally, you’ll take on team building activities to strengthen these enablers within your organization.This is Course 2 of 3 in the Remotely Humorous Program taught by Naomi Bagdonas and Connor Diemand-Yauman are leading experts who have taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. They’ve teamed up with comedic minds from The Onion, Funny Or Die, and many more impressive comedy mainstays to create a fun, interactive learning experience, focused on cultivating humor and levity in virtual teams and empowering you to show up at work more authentically, effectively, and joyfully.

دورة البرمجة المالية وسياسات الاقتصاد الكلي عبر شبكة المعلومات، الانترنت، الجزء الأول: تحليل حسابات الاقتصاد الكلى

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ما مدى سلامة الاقتصاد؟ وكيف يمكن أن تساعد السياسة الاقتصادية على دعم سلامته أو استعادتها؟ هذان السؤالان يحتلان موقعا مركزيا في البرمجة المالية. وفي دوراتنا عن برمجة وسياسات الاقتصاد الكلي (FPP) ستتعلم الأسس اللازمة للإجابة عن هذه الأسئلة.والبرمجة المالية هي إطار لتحليل حالة الاقتصاد القائمة، والتنبؤ بتوجهاته، وتحديد السياسات الاقتصادية التي يمكن أن تغير مسار الاقتصاد.وفي الجزء الأول من سلسلة برمجة وسياسات الاقتصاد الكلي التي يقدمها معهد تنمية القدرات بالصندوق، ستتعلم المهارات الأساسية المطلوبة للقيام بالبرمجة المالية. وتعرض الدورة أهم سمات القطاعات الأربعة الأساسية التي يتألف منها الاقتصاد الكلي (القطاع العيني وقطاع المالية العامة والقطاع الخارجي والقطاع النقدي)، كما توضح كيفية قراءة حسابات هذه القطاعات وتفسيرها وتحليلها، وتبين الروابط فيما بينها. (يغطي الجزء الثاني من سلسلة برمجة وسياسات الاقتصاد الكلي إعداد التنبؤ الأساسي وتصميم برنامج للتصحيح الاقتصادي.)وأثناء الدورة، سيرشدك اقتصاديون من الصندوق إلى فهم تفاصيل الحسابات وتحليل الاقتصاد. وإلى جانب المشاركة في المحاضرات المقدمة بالفيديو، ستجيب عن أسئلة بشأن المفاهيم الموضحة، وتحل تمارين رقمية قصيرة، وتناقش مع المشاركين الآخرين التطورات الاقتصادية في بلدك، وتتعامل مع بيانات بلد افتراضي. وستحصل أيضا على مادة القراءة.وسواء كنت موظفا حكوميا تعمل على القضايا الاقتصادية لبلدك، أو مهنيا تعالج البيانات الاقتصادية، أو مجرد مهتم بتحسين فهمك لتطورات الاقتصاد، فستقدم لك هذه الدورة تدريبا عمليا على تحليل الاقتصاد الكلي. ونأمل أن تنضم إلينا في هذه الرحلة الشيقة!ويقدِّم الصندوق الجزء الأول من برمجة وسياسات الاقتصاد الكلي بدعم من حكومة الكويت.

MVC Application Design using .NET Core 2.0

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The goal of this course is to guide you through learning how to develop MVC pattern based web applications, using the latest tools and technologies from Microsoft - ASP.NET Core. After finishing this course, you should be able to build ASP.NET Core applications from scratch, use the MVC pattern and components correctly, and deploy the web applications to the Cloud. To achieve this goal, this course will focus on:MVC pattern - Deep dive into the MVC architectural pattern and understand its implementationHands-on practice - create the ASP.NET Core web applications to resolve real-world problems

Digital Design

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Digital systems have revolutionized our world. From television to cell phones to GPS to warfare to automobiles to medicine to distance education, computers and digital processing have reshaped the way we live and work. The semiconductor industry has grown from $21B in 1985 to $412B in 2019, making it one of the largest sectors of the economy. Computers are also a vital part of daily practice in every field of science and engineering.Previous generations of engineers learned the “nuts and bolts” of the profession by doing hand-on projects such as disassembling and rebuilding engines. As technology has advanced, cars have become too complicated for the average person to work on. Ironically, the same advances have made computers much easier to build. While most fields of engineering require extensive mathematics and complicated analysis of even rather simple components, digital systems merely require counting from 0 to 1. Their challenge, instead, is in combining many simple building blocks into a complex whole. In this class, you will experiment with digital systems, building simple circuits from logic gates on a breadboard and designing more complex systems with a logic simulator. You will learn how to systematically create digital systems with a desired function. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and experience to design digital systems and be prepared for more advanced coursework.Beyond the practical reasons to take this class, I hope you find it enormously fun and exciting like I do. There's a great satisfaction about being able to build things. Digital systems are ideal because the components are far cheaper and easier to use than in other engineering fields. It's also amazing to demystify how digital systems work under the hood. I fell in love with digital design when I first studied it in college, and I hope you do too!This is the first half of a 2-part sequence. This half covers digital design. The second half, ENGR85B, covers computer architecture, where you will learn to program, use, and build microprocessors. By the end of the second half, you will have designed your own microprocessor and understand it all the way from the transistor level to the software. You'll also have built smart gadgets and games with lights and sensors.

'Talk to me': Improving mental health and suicide prevention in young adults

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Poor mental health affects one in four people, and young adults are particularly susceptible. Do you feel confident approaching the topic of mental health with people you care about, or are concerned about?'Talk to Me': Improving mental health and suicide prevention in young adults , is a German-Australian collaboration developed in response to the growing need to provide young people and those around them with the knowledge, skills, and understanding to recognise, identify, and respond to mental health challenges in themselves and others.Key topics in this MOOC include understanding contributing factors to poor mental health, how to talk about addressing poor mental health, and strategies to increase mental fitness.Please note: This course contains content that crosses over with TTM2x: Managing Study, Stress, and Mental Health at University (Modules 1 and 2). However, this MOOC contains an extra four modules of content which are aimed at parents, teachers, health professionals, GPs, social workers, counsellors, coaches, and other 'gatekeepers' - people in positions of responsibility with regular contact with young people.We are grateful to the following organisations for their contribution to and continued support of this MOOC:Healthway Western AustraliaThe Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional EducatorsCurtin University Teaching Excellence FundAustralia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme - Universities Australia

Foundations of Data Analysis - Part 2: Inferential Statistics

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In the second part of a two part statistics course, we’ll learn how to take data and use it to make reasonable and useful conclusions. You’ll learn the basics of statistical thinking – starting with an interesting question and some data. Then, we’ll apply the correct statistical tool to help answer our question of interest – using R and hands-on Labs. Finally, we’ll learn how to interpret our findings and develop a meaningful conclusion.We will cover basic Inferential Statistics – integrating ideas of Part 1. If you have a basic knowledge of Descriptive Statistics, this course is for you. We will learn how to sample data, examine both quantitative and categorical data with statistical techniques such as t-tests, chi-square, ANOVA, and Regression.Both parts of the course are intended to cover the same material as a typical introductory undergraduate statistics course, with an added twist of modeling. This course is also intentionally devised to be sequential, with each new piece building on the previous topics. Once completed, students should feel comfortable using basic statistical techniques to answer their own questions about their own data, using a widely available statistical software package (R).This course will consist of:Instructional videos for statistical concepts broken down into manageable topicsGuided questions to help your understanding of the topicWeekly tutorial videos for using RScaffolded learning with Pre-Labs (using R), followed by Labs where we will answer specific questions using real-world datasetsWeekly wrap-up questions challenging both topic and application knowledgeWith these new skills, learners will leave the course with the ability to use basic statistical techniques to answer their own questions about their own data, using a widely available statistical software package (R). Learners from all walks of life can use this course to better understand their data, to make valuable informed decisions.Join us in learning how to look at the world around us. What are the questions? How can we answer them? And what do those answers tell us about the world we live in?

Prise en charge de la personne obèse

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Ce Mooc traite de la prise en charge de la personne obèse. Pourquoi s’interesser à l’obésité ? Car c'est à la fois un problème de santé et un problème de société. L’obésité :-est fréquente, (1,9 milliards d’adultes en surpoids et 600 millions d’adultes dans le monde touchant aussi l’enfance) -est une maladie chronique avec un retentissement sur la santé.Sa prise en charge fait appel à des modifications de notre mode de vie, à un accompagnement psychologique, à un suivi médical et même parfois à des solutions chirurgicalesAvec 5 semaines d’enseignement, vous comprendrez les bases générales de la prise en charge de ce problème de santé important.

Let’s Get Personal: Working with Personality Type

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Please note: the UMD Power Lab is an optional lab, highly recommended, and costs an additional fee. Please read the important statement at the bottom of the description.Great leaders are just ordinary people with the right skills at the right time. To become a great leader, however, you have to know yourself well. What are your core personality attributes? How do you make decisions? What’s your decision-making style? How do you know?This certificate offers an extraordinary opportunity to spend some quality time with yourself to assess your current level of soft skills, clearly define your core self, and build soft skills which are essential to professional, not to mention life, success.In this course, you will learn about the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, MBTI for short. It is the most frequently used assessment of personality type in the world. Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 companies use MBTI for recruitment, promotions, job-fit decisions, and building more effective teams.Within this course, you will find the following topics:What is personality typeWhy personality type matters personally and professionallyHow type preferences influence behaviorYour personality typeStrengths and pitfalls of your personality typeHow to use personality type to Have constructive conflictIncrease your energyBuild better teamsCommunicate more effectivelyLearn more effectivelyContribute more at workBetter manage stressCore personality traits are much more difficult to change than any single Power Skill. So, it’s very important to understand your type, its strengths & weaknesses, and how to use your understanding of your type to be happier and happier at work. Personality type describes how you prefer to get data, make decisions, generate energy and are oriented to the outside world. These are preferences which are your personality's default setting. Your behavior may differ, may have to differ sometimes from your preferences, but that takes extra energy to do.Your take-aways from this course will include:understanding of typedifference between preferences and behaviorcharacteristics typical of each preference pair Generate energy: extroversion/introversionGather data: sensing, intuitiveMake decisions: thinking, feelingOrientation to Outside World: judging, perceivinghow to optimize your type at worksolve problems using type dynamicscommunicate more effectivelybetter manage stresslearn in alignment with your typedo constructive conflict with typeuse type for career choicebuilding teams with group typeunderstand type andenergy managementproject managementunderstand type watchingVerified learners can access the Power Lab to take the MBTI, Step 1 for Organizations which helps you to identify and confirm your type and understand how your type shows up in the workplace. You will develop understanding of how you prefer to communicate, your likely behaviors at work, and your work style. You will receive your own individual MBTI report.Verified learners will have these additional take-aways:confirmed typedetailed report of your type at workyour workplace contributionsyour ideal workplacehow you like to learnhow you communicateyour work styleyour preferences at workpotential pitfalls of your typesuggestions for optimizing your type at workThe UMD Power Lab includes a curated set of self-assessments offered at a discounted price paid separately from the edX content and certificate. These self-assessments are rigorously developed and cannot be supplemented with free versions that would mislead learners with poor-quality alternatives. The UMD Power Lab is optional but highly recommended for any verified learner in the course. It costs $89 per year and only needs to be purchased once per year for the entire suite of courses in the Re-Imagining Leadership Professional Certificate.We've done everything we can to reduce these costs for you, and have built a free SMART Goals Mobile App to help you achieve your goals. Used together this forms a revolutionary design to coach learners at scale in leadership and power skills as a premium but low-cost experience above and beyond learning the course content and earning the edX certificate.

Applied Entrepreneurship 2: Acceleration Plan Development and Evaluation

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Applied Entrepreneurship II is a follow-on course from Applied Entrepreneurship I. You’ll dive even deeper into developing a plan to accelerate your business, doing some research to pull together facts and figures to develop a more complete acceleration plan to help you understand the more intricate details of how to iterate certain parts of your business model togrow your business. In this course you will: Create an outline of your acceleration plan:Define and size your market based upon your new viewDevelop and implement a market research planMore fully understand what marketing entailsLearn more about adding to your entrepreneurial team and how to lead it effectivelyDevelop a detailed financial plan for your business and, if needed, how to obtain outside financingYou can then enter an exciting competition where you could win a cash prize that you can use to help grow your business, presenting to a panel of judges who will not only determine winners, but will also provide you with guidance for moving forward.

Venture Capital

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Als Unternehmer und Grunder eines Start-up-Unternehmens benotigen Sie Geld, um ein erfolgreiches Unternehmen aufzubauen. Sie benotigen Kapital, um ein großartiges Team einzustellen, einen Prototyp zu bauen, einen Markt zu erschließen und Ihren Marktanteil zu steigern. Woher bekommen Sie diese Art von Kapital? Ganz einfach: Von Venture Capitalists. Aber wie kommen Sie an dieses Kapital? Knifflige Frage?! Gut, dass es eine Einfuhrung in Venture Capital gibt.In diesem Einfuhrungskurs zu Venture Capital lernen Sie, wie Sie Geld fur Ihr Start-up bekommen. Sie lernen, was Risikokapitalgeber sind und wie sie denken. Sie lernen, was ihre Motive sind, wie sie investieren und was sie von Ihnen erwarten. Haben Sie schon mal von dem Ding namens "Term Sheet" gehort? Ganz egal, ob Sie den Begriff bereits kennen oder nicht, wir erklaren Ihnen, was er bedeutet und was Sie beachten sollten.Unsere Tipps und Tricks und Dos and Don'ts sollten Ihre Arbeit mit Risikokapitalgebern erleichtern.Wir erklaren Ihnen auch, was passiert, wenn ein VC in Ihr Unternehmen ein- und austritt.Dieser Kurs ist wirklich praxisorientiert! Zusatzlich zu den Vortragen von Professor Brettel erhalten Sie Informationen aus erster Hand:Insiderwissen von erfahrenen Unternehmern und Risikokapitalgeber. Sie werden von diesem Kurs in Ihrem taglichen Umgang mit Risikokapitalgebern profitieren.

Incarceration's Witnesses: American Prison Writing

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The U.S. incarcerates a larger number and percentage of its own citizens than any nation on earth: larger than China, Russia, Cuba, or Iran. American ex-offenders are arrested again at a rate of 67% within three years, and 75% within five years of release. This course looks inside U.S. prisons, through the history of literary witness produced by incarcerated people. This history will help us to understand the mass-scale prison’s rise, its day-to-day practices, and why it fails so badly at the task of rehabilitation. Through prison witness, we may hope to begin to understand what is needed to make the U.S. prison a more socially constructive institution. Among other texts, we will read and discuss Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America, The (online) American Prison Writing Archive, hosted and made possible by Hamilton College's Digital Humanities Initiative, and come to a sense of the moral weight that prison witness must carry in any truly democratic debate on the criminal justice system.

Introduction to Ci Poems in the Tang and Song Dynasty | 唐宋词鉴赏

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Starting with the definition and origin of Ci Poems, this course will introduce you to the representative writers, works and important genres of Tang and Song poetry.The course will also explore the history of Tang and Song poetry as well as the folklore and humanistic spirit of the Song Dynasty.This course is part of a series of “Appreciation of Tang and Song poetry” courses hosted by professor Bugao Wang.本课程系王步高教授主持的“唐宋诗词鉴赏”国家精品课程、国家资源共享课系列课程之一。课程从词的定义、词的起源开始，较系统地讲授唐宋词的代表作家、代表作品，重要流派；以讲作品为主，兼及作家、唐宋词史以及宋代的历史、民俗及人文精神；通过本课程的学习，使学生对唐宋词有较为全面系统的了解，同时能提高其诗词阅读鉴赏及批评能力。 主讲人王步高教授为词学大师唐圭璋入室弟子，协助唐主编过《唐宋词鉴赏辞典》，长于诗词写作，词学领域著作颇丰，该课程是清华大学、东南大学最受学生欢迎的课程之一。