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We are currently facing one of the biggest challenges worldwide: how to feed a growing population without exhausting global resources.This course examines food security from a food systems perspective and illustrates the major global challenges present, from the environmental impact of food production to the public health impacts of current and future diets. We look at where food systems and non-food policies interact, such as climate change and biodiversity conservation. You will be introduced to some of the tools used to collect information about these issues, such as the use of big data, modelling and behaviour change models. Finally, you will learn some of the interventions used across food systems to address these global challenges, from sustainable agriculture measures and sustainable certification to dietary guidelines and behaviour change.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreePhilosophy, Science and Religion mark three of the most fundamental modes of thinking about the world and our place in it. Are these modes incompatible? Put another way: is the intellectually responsible thing to do to ‘pick sides’ and identify with one of these approaches at the exclusion of others? Or, are they complementary or mutually supportive? As is typical of questions of such magnitude, the devil is in the details. For example, it is important to work out what is really distinctive about each of these ways of inquiring about the world. In order to gain some clarity here, we’ll be investigating what some of the current leading thinkers in philosophy, science and religion are actually doing.This course, entitled ‘Religion and Science’, is the third of three related courses in our Philosophy, Science and Religion Online series. The course will address five themes, each presented by an expert in the area. 1. Science, Religion, and the Origin of the Universe (Professor Tim Maudlin, NYU )2. Buddhism and Science (Professor Graham Priest, CUNY)3. Evolution and Design (Dr Kevin Scharp, St Andrews)4. Sin Suffering and Salvation: Evolutions Thorny Issues (Dr Bethany Sollereder, Oxford)5. Human Uniqueness in Science, Theology, and Ethics (Professor David Clough, Chester)The first and second courses in the Philosophy, Science and Religion series, 'Science and Philosophy' and 'Philosophy and Religion' were launched in 2017 and you can sign up to these at any time. It is not necessary to have completed these courses to follow this course. However, completing all three courses will give you a broader understanding of this fascinating topic. Look for: • Philosophy, Science and Religion I: Science and Philosophy - https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy-science-religion-1• Philosophy, Science and Religion II: Philosophy and Religion - https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy-science-religion-2Upon successful completion of all three courses, students will:(1) Understand the main parameters at stake in the current debate between science and religion.(2) Have some familiarity with the relevant areas of science that feature in the debate—including cosmology, evolution, and the neurosciences—and will have begun to engage with them conceptually.(3) Have encountered key philosophical approaches to the interface between science and religion, and will have had the opportunity to engage them in practice.(4) Have embarked constructively in cross-disciplinary conversations.(5) Have demonstrated an openness to personal growth through a commitment to dialogue across intellectual and spiritual boundaries.You can also follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/EdiPhilOnline and you can follow the hashtag #psrmooc
The discovery of a new fundamental particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN is the latest step in a long quest seeking to answer one of physics’ most enduring questions: why do particles have mass? The experiments’ much anticipated success confirms predictions made decades earlier by Peter Higgs and others, and offers a glimpse into a universe of physics beyond the Standard Model.As Professor Peter Higgs continues his inspiring role at Edinburgh University’s School of Physics & Astronomy, the experiments at the LHC continue.This free online course introduces the theoretical tools needed to appreciate the discovery, and presents the elementary particles that have been discovered at the tiniest scales ever explored. Beginning with basic concepts in classical mechanics, the story unfolds through relativity and quantum mechanics, describing forces, matter and the unification of theories with an understanding driven by the tools of mathematics.Narrating the journey through experimental results which led to the discovery in 2012, the course invites you to learn from a team of world-class physicists at Edinburgh University. Learners participate in discussion of the consequences of the Higgs boson, to physics and cosmology, and towards a stronger understanding and new description of the universe.Photo of Professor Higgs © Peter Tuffy, The University of EdinburghThe course for its most part requires a basic level of mathematical skills, at the level of a final-year school pupil.Some of the video lectures are significantly more advanced and include University-level math material. However, people encountering difficulties with the most advanced material should still be able to answer the quizzes and complete the course successfully. A basic knowledge of physics is helpful, but not required.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeFaced with difficult questions people often tend to dismiss and marginalize dissent. Political and moral disagreements can be incredibly polarizing, and sometimes even dangerous. And whether it’s Christian fundamentalism, Islamic extremism, or militant atheism, religious dialogue remains tinted by arrogance, dogma, and ignorance. The world needs more people who are sensitive to reasons both for and against their beliefs, and are willing to consider the possibility that their political, religious and moral beliefs might be mistaken. The world needs more intellectual humility.But what is intellectual humility, anyway? And why do people seem so drawn toward intellectual arrogance? Psychologists, philosophers, theologians, and educationalists are now suggesting some answers.In this course we try to define intellectual humility and intellectual virtues in general, and ask how we know who is humble. All lectures are delivered by leading specialists, and the course is organised around a number of interesting readings and practical assignments which will help you address issues related to humility in your daily life.This course is a part of a series which explores the theory, the science and the applied issues surrounding intellectual humility (the latter two coming in June and November 2017). Completing all three courses will give you a broader understanding of this fascinating topic. Look for: • Intellectual Humility: Science - https://www.coursera.org/learn/intellectual-humility-science• Intellectual Humility: Practice - https://www.coursera.org/learn/intellectual-humility-practiceYou can also follow us on twitter: @EdiPhilOnline and #IHMOOC
The UK will hold a referendum on whether to stay in or to leave the European Union on 23 June 2016.The EU can often be confusing and the UK’s relationship with the EU over the years has been complicated. This three-week course breaks down the key facts and guides you through the referendum.We look at how the UK ended up having a referendum on EU membership. We then consider the campaign issues, public opinion and alternatives to being in the EU. After the vote, we reflect on what the result means for the UK and for the rest of Europe.Join us as we explore one of the biggest decisions facing the UK in a generation.© University of Edinburgh 2016 CC BY-SA
Élelem-, ivóvíz- és energiakészleteink korlátozottak, és ezek elosztása egyenlőtlen a növekvő népesség körében – az éghajlatváltozás pedig a keserű hab a tortán. Ezekben a globális kihívásokban a nitrogénnek kulcsszerepe van. Ezen a kurzuson megtanulhatod, hogy a nitrogén mennyire elválaszthatatlan az emberi civilizációtól és hogy a jövőben vajon megmentőnk vagy ellenségünk lesz-e.A nitrogén egyszerre különleges és hétköznapi. A vizet vörössé, az embert kékké változtatja. Egyszerre klímabarát és környezetszennyező ellenség. Hozhat fenséges lakomát, de fenyegethet éhínséggel is. Ha eddig azt hitted, hogy a nitrogén csak a periódusos rendszer egy unalmas zuga, itt az ideje, hogy ezt újra gondold!Ezen az innovatív kurzuson előképzettségedtől függetlenül megismerheted a nitrogén és a globális változások alapelveit, és megtudhatod, hogy a nitrogén milyen kihívásokat jelent és milyen lehetőségeket rejt magában. Témaköreink az élelmiszer-biztonság, az éghajlatváltozás, a lég- illetve a vízszennyezés, az emberi egészség és még sok más.A tanfolyamot az Edinburghi Egyetem díjnyertes kurzusfejlesztői csapata alkotta meg, mely közérthető, szakértői képet ad a nitrogénhez kapcsolódó globális kihívásokról, illetve bemutatja, hogy a nitrogén hogyan fenyegeti az emberiséget és hogy hogyan kezelhetnénk jobban.Olyan oktatóktól tanulhatsz, akik többévtizedes tapasztalattal rendelkeznek a nitrogén és a globális változások kutatásában. Ez a világelső kurzus vezető brit és indiai kutatók együttműködéseként jött létre a NEWS India-UK virtuális központ keretében.
এটি একটি নিখুঁত ঝড় । ক্রমবর্ধমান জনসংখ্যার মধ্যে সীমিত খাদ্য, পানি ও শক্তির অসম বিতরণ এবং জলবায়ুর উষ্ণায়ন পৃথিবীর জন্য চ্যালেঞ্জ । বিশ্বব্যাপী এই চ্যালেঞ্জসমূহে নাইট্রোজেন প্রধান ভূমিকা পালন করতে পারে । এখানে আপনি শিখবেন মানব সভ্যতায় নাইট্রোজেনের অবদান এবং ভবিষ্যতে তা আমাদের পরিবেশের জন্য কতটুকু ক্ষতিকর ।নাইট্রোজেনের গল্পটি অদ্ভুদ এবং পার্থিব, যাতে পানি লাল এবং মানুষ নীল বর্ণ ধারন করে । এটি হতে পারে জলবায়ু বান্ধব বা দূষণ সৃষ্টিকারী, হতে পারে উন্নত মানের খাবার জোগানকারী বা দুর্ভিক্ষের কারন। যদি আপনার মূল চিন্তায় নাইট্রোজেন এর অবস্থান পিরিওডিক টেবিলের কোনায় হয়ে থাকে, তবে এটি আবার ভেবে দেখার সময় ।আপনার পূর্বজ্ঞান যাইহোক না কেন, এই উদ্ভাবনী কোর্সটি আপনাকে নাইট্রোজেন এবং বিশ্বব্যাপী পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে মূল ধারণার শিক্ষা দেবে, যা আপনাকে উপস্থাপিত চ্যালেঞ্জ এবং সুযোগগুলিকে আরও ভালভাবে বুঝতে সহায়তা করবে । মূল বিষয়সমূহে খাদ্য নিরাপত্তা, জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন, বায়ু দূষণ, পানি দূষণ, মানব স্বাস্থ্য এবং আরও অনেক কিছু অন্তর্ভুক্ত করা হয়েছে ।এডিনবার্গ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের শিক্ষক দলের সফল পুরস্কার বিজয়ী শিক্ষা পদ্ধতির মাধ্যমে নাইট্রোজেন সম্পর্কে জানুন । এই কোর্স নাইট্রোজেনের বিশ্বব্যাপী চ্যালেঞ্জ মোকাবেলায় সবাই কে দক্ষ করবে । যেখানে দেখা যায় নাইট্রোজেন কিভাবে মানব সভ্যতায় হুমকির সৃষ্টি করে যা আরও ভালভাবে সমন্বয় এবং মোকাবেলা করা যায় ।নাইট্রোজেন এবং বিশ্বব্যাপি পরিবর্তনের ওপর যুগযুগ ধরে অভিজ্ঞতার আলোকে যুক্তরাজ্য ও ভারতীয় নেতৃস্থানীয় বিশেষজ্ঞদের সহযোগিতায় নাইট্রোজেনের কর্মক্ষমতা সম্বন্ধে নিউটন-ভাভা ভার্চুয়াল সেন্টারে এই প্রথম প্রশিক্ষণ প্রদান ও কোর্সটি চালু করা হয় ।এই কোর্সের ডিসকাশন ফোরামের বিষয়গুলো অনুবাদ করে ইংরেজীতে পর্যবেক্ষণ করা হবে।
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeThis course will offer a broadintroduction to the core models of psychological development and current debates in Applied Developmental Psychology and the practice ofthe Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People.By the end of the course you will be able to:Understand essential developmental processes and how they relate to child and adolescent mental health and well beingUnderstand key mental health difficulties that affect children and young peopleDevelop a critical reflection on the nature and perception of typical and atypical development and psychological difficulties Understand and tocritically examine the cultural and societal context for child and adolescent development and developmental psychopathology.Throughout the course we will invite you to reflect on how childhood is defined and perceived from a developmental and clinical psychology perspective. We want to examine the risks of pathologising the range of human experiences and in underestimating the active role that children play in shaping their development. A key perspective that we will adopt throughout the course is that of individual adaptation and an understanding of the psychological processes that allow individuals to respond to past events and circumstances as well as others around them in their physical, emotional and psychological development. We will further look at current models of prevention and psychological intervention for Children and Young people who present with mental health difficulties and how these are implemented and evaluated within public and mental heath settings.
This course is running for the final time – if you wish to sign up then you must do so by 5 March 2022.In this course, you will learn three predictive modelling techniques - linear and logistic regression, and naive Bayes - and their applications in real-world scenarios.The first half of the course focuses on linear regression. This technique allows you to model a continuous outcome variable using both continuous and categorical predictors. This technique enables you to predict product sales based on several customer variables.In the second half of the course, you will learn about logistic regression, which is the counterpart of linear regression, when the response variable is categorical. You will also be introduced to naive Bayes; a very intuitive, probabilistic modeling technique.
The Climate Solutions course is designed and delivered by award-winning climate change experts and educators.It tackles the biggest challenge of our time – climate change – by giving each of us the knowledge and tools we need to make a real difference.Designed to be accessible and engaging throughout, it provides the facts you need to know about what climate change is, and the solutions you need to know so you can be part of fighting it.You’ll learn about the solutions needed from governments and big business, how you can help to make them do more, and what you can do yourself.This innovative course, regardless of your background, will teach you why climate change is important, allowing you to better understand the challenge it represents and, most importantly, what you can do about it.Core topics include:the science behind climate change and its causes;the impacts it is already having and could have in the future;what governments and business need to do;how each of us can take action, from what we do at home right through to who we vote for and what stuff we choose to buy.Through the award-winning teaching approaches of the University of Edinburgh’s faculty team this open access course brings an engaging and action-focussed approach to tackling the climate emergency.Taught by instructors with decades of experience in climate change and online learning, this empowering course is a collaboration between leading experts in the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeCourse DescriptionWhat is our role in the universe as human agents capable of knowledge? What makes us intelligent cognitive agents seemingly endowed with consciousness? This is the second part of the course 'Philosophy and the Sciences', dedicated to Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences. Scientific research across the cognitive sciences has raised pressing questions for philosophers. The goal of this course is to introduce you to some of the main areas and topics at the key juncture between philosophy and the cognitive sciences.Each week we will introduce you to some of these important questions at the forefront of scientific research. We will explain the science behind each topic in a simple, non-technical way, while also addressing the philosophical and conceptual questions arising from it. Areas you’ll learn about will include:Philosophy of psychology, among whose issues we will cover the evolution of the human mind and the nature of consciousness. Philosophy of neurosciences, where we’ll consider the nature of human cognition and the relation between mind, machines, and the environment. Learning objectivesGain a fairly well-rounded view on selected areas and topics at the intersection of philosophy and the sciencesUnderstand some key questions, and conceptual problems arising in the cognitive sciences.Develop critical skills to evaluate and assess these problems.Suggested ReadingsTo accompany 'Philosophy and the Sciences', we are pleased to announce a tie-in book from Routledge entitled 'Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone'. This course companion to the 'Philosophy and the Sciences' course was written by the Edinburgh Philosophy and the Sciences team expressly with the needs of MOOC students in mind. 'Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone' contains clear and user-friendly chapters, chapter summaries, glossary, study questions, suggestions for further reading and guides to online resources.Please note, this companion book is optional - all the resources needed to complete the course are available freely and listed on the course site.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeThis course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history. This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary field of study, this foundation requires intellectual breadth: as I describe it in the class text, understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires knowledge of the sciences (both natural and social), and building solutions requires technical insight into systems (such as provided by engineering, planning, and management).
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeIf I Googled you, what would I find?As we move around the online world we leave tracks and traces of our activity all the time: social media accounts, tagged images, professional presences, scraps of text, but also many artefacts we don't always realise we are leaving behind, or that others leave about us.In this course you will hear from a range of experts and you will have an opportunity to explore and reflect on your own online tracks and traces, to understand why your digital footprint is important. We will introduce you to some of the tools and approaches to effectively manage your online presence (or digital footprint).The course will focus on the different dimensions of a digital footprint, including developing an effective online presence, managing your privacy, creating opportunities for networking, balancing and managing professional and personal presences (eprofessionalism). By the end of this course (MOOC) you should be equipped to ensure that your digital footprint works for you, whether you want to be more private online, or are looking to create a more effective and impactful presence.You can also join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #DFMOOC and follow us @DFMOOCWe hope you enjoy the course!
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeAs Donald Trump takes office as the forty-fifth president of the United States, this course explores presidential elections in historical perspective, via five case studies. It tells the story of key campaigns in US history, and by doing so it investigates how politics changed over time—and how understanding the past sheds light on the current campaign. From the arrival of "dirty politics" to the impact of the "digital revolution," the course looks at the historical background to some of the key phenomena that shaped the controversy-laden campaign of 2016.The five elections that we'll investigate are among the most significant in American political history. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson won the presidency in a contest that encouraged politicians to reform the electoral college, the system by which presidents are still chosen. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 prompted the outbreak of the Civil War. It's an election that helps us to understand the development of political parties. In 1968, the Vietnam War was a dominant concern for Americans, and yet foreign policy played a secondary role in Richard Nixon's victory. Twelve years later, in 1980, Ronald Reagan won an election that initiated a new era of conservatism. Finally, we'll turn our attention to the election that took Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, to the White House in 2008. Many saw the Obama's success not only as revealing the impact of the digital revolution on campaign politics, but also as signaling a turn to progressivism.Image credits:Course logo - "Former President Truman holds a copy of the famous Chicago Daily Tribune paper declaring 'Dewey Defeats Truman'" Harry S. Truman Library & Museum (https://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=38592).Course banner - "US Flag Backlit" by Joshua Nathanson, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Flag_Backlit.jpg).
A predictive exercise is not finished when a model is built. This course will equip you with essential skills for understanding performance evaluation metrics, using Python, to determine whether a model is performing adequately.Specifically, you will learn:Appropriate measures that are used to evaluate predictive modelsProcedures that are used to ensure that models do not cheat through, for example, overfitting or predicting incorrect distributionsThe ways that different model evaluation criteria illustrate how one model excels over another and how to identify when to use certain criteriaThis is the foundation of optimising successful predictive models. The concepts will be brought together in a comprehensive case study that deals with customer churn. You will be tasked with selecting suitable variables to predict whether a customer will leave a telecommunications provider by looking into their behaviour, creating various models, and benchmarking them by using the appropriate evaluation criteria.