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Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeDurch den MOOC „Das liebe Geld - Finance im Alltag“ erlangen Sie ein Basiswissen für bewusste und korrekte finanzielle Entscheidungen im Alltag. Sie eignen sich konkrete Werkzeuge an, die Ihnen helfen können, bessere Alltagsentscheidungen zu treffen und bekommen einen Einblick in verschiedene neueste Forschungserkenntnisse der Finance.Wir begleiten Sie in sechs Wochenmodulen zu soliden finanziellen Alltagsentscheidungen. Nach einer Einführung erlernen Sie den Zeitwert des Geldes als zentrales Konzept zur Entscheidungsfindung. Überlegungen zur persönlichen Finanzplanung folgt das Basiswissen zur Geldanlage. Danach halten Sie inne und reflektieren die Frage der Werte anhand konkreter Beispiele, insbesondere in Bezug auf Finanzprodukte wie Derivate und Strukturierte Produkte. In einem Exkurs erhalten Sie auch Einblick in Bitcoin und Blockchain. Das Thema Geldanlage wird anschliessend vertieft: Sie begegnen dem grössten Feind des Anlegers und betrachten die Interaktion der Finanzmarktteilnehmenden in biologischen Analogien. Am Ende reflektieren Sie das Gehörte und Erlernte kritisch und nehmen hoffentlich viele konkrete Hilfsmittel in den Alltag mit.Die Inhalte der einzelnen Module können auch einzeln bearbeitet werden. Der Kurs eignet sich also auch für jene Interessierte, die nicht Zeit oder Interesse am Gesamtkurs haben.Der Kurs wird in deutscher Sprache gehalten.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeIn this course, featuring many researchers at the University of Zurich, you will learn about the amazing diversity of biological organisms in the world around us. You will discover the field of "biodiversity science", experience the countless forms that biodiversity takes, look at the values and importance of this diversity, understand the processes that create and maintain diversity, and hear about how biodiversity is distributed across the Earth. You will also experience how biodiversity is threatened, and what conservation, management, and individual actions can do for its protection. Having been equipped with such knowledge through the course, we encourage you to take action, however small, to positively influence the future of biodiversity, and thereby become a Biodiversity Ambassador.This course is unique in several respects:- The video lectures are presented by many of the biodiversity scientists at the University of Zurich, with each of them speaking about their own area of expertise, and the general area in which this resides.- It covers topics ranging from quite conceptual to very applied, and from natural to social sciences.- Video lectures vary in their depth and technical content, so there is something to challenge even more advanced learners.- Assessments are designed to test core knowledge.- There are two novel peer assignments, in which you will get feedback from peers about your submission. This will create for you a more interactive experience than otherwise.- The final course module and its peer assignment encourages you to become a "Biodiversity Ambassador" -- someone who speaks out on behalf of biodiversity.- We encourage and facilitate building of a community and to pair up with other participants to become active Biodiversity Ambassadors together.Please like our Facebook page to help us build a community of like-minded people from around the world: https://www.facebook.com/BiodiversityandGlobalChangeMOOCWATCH THE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/u7nQn3KTW7QTOPICS OF THE 8 MODULES OF THIS MOOCModule 1: What is biodiversity? What facets of diversity can we observe?Module 2: How does evolution work? How do you interpret evolutionary trees? How are species described and classified? Why are there sometimes different classifications for a group of organisms?Module 3: Biodiversity in our diets. This includes an exercise in which you will look at the diversity in your diet and classify it.Module 4: Ecological patterns and processes: how do you find out which species are where, what spatial patterns can be observed, remote sensing of functional diversity.Module 5: Why is biodiversity important? Values of biodiversity. Description of the Ecosystem services framework. Module 6: History of life on Earth. The current climate change ("global warming"). What is the "Great Acceleration"? Global change in general and how it affects amphibians and the Arctic. How do scientists make predictions about the future of species?Module 7: Some ways in which humans are helping biodiversity: Conservation of nature in protected areas, politics, sustainable (green) business, conservation actions to save species and restore habitats, and researching biodiversity with the help of natural history collections and citizen science. Module 8: What can you do to help biodiversity and mitigate climate change? How can you be a Biodiversity Ambassador?
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeIn this course, featuring many researchers from the University of Zurich and international institutions, we will introduce you to some of the most vibrant cultural trends addressing landscape appreciation, degradation, protection, and rehabilitation that currently circulate in the Asian hemisphere. You will learn about concepts of landscape in Asian religions, philosophy, social sciences, history and the arts and their reverberation in selected environmental projects in China, India and Japan. Furthermore, we will discuss how they are critically reflected upon in the context of the environmental humanities, and observe how an interdisciplinary approach towards regional ecosystems past and present reaches out beyond pragmatic technological solutions to mitigate environmental damage. Following us on our different paths and trajectories through the five modules of the course, you will encounter many of the reasons why environmental humanities study projects which strive to change people’s prevalent attitudes, values and behavioural patterns in order to redeem the rapidly globalizing crisis, and how they go about it. Having acquainted yourself with the stories Asia’s landscapes – and landscape representations – tell about actual and possible human-nature relationships, you can compare and evaluate their potential to bring about the desired change and define your own range of actions as an informed stakeholder for creating a sustainable future. What is arguably no less intriguing: you will learn how to appreciate a broad range of eco-aesthetic forms that re-enchant our lives by creatively interacting with the more-than-human world.You can follow the five modules of the course consecutively or just study the modules that interest you the most. If you want to earn a certificate, you need to complete all of the modules including the quizzes at the end of each module.THESE ARE THE TOPICS OF THE 5 MODULES OF THIS COURSE:Module 1: Concepts of landscape past and present and their cosmological underpinnings.Module 2: Entangled landscapes comprising cultural flows of concepts and forms, contemporary gardens on the move, nostalgic elegies of demolished sites and rural reconstruction projects.Module 3: Discussion of two religious communities in India (the Parsi-Zoroastrians and the Auroville community) and their relationship with the environment.Module 4: Environmental debates tackling religious concepts and social practices and the problem of waste disposal in India.Module 5: Environmental movements and the impact of Fukushima on attitudes towards nuclear energy in Japan, creative activism including arts projects and documentaries to protest against pollution and landscape degradation and raise environmental awareness in the Sinosphere, and emergent concepts for sustainable community life on the planet.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeStatistics is the lingua franca of modern science, including the social sciences. It is also of ever greater importance in daily life, as data of all sorts are now ubiquitous. Statistical literacy is hence of great value, both for academic purposes and for our daily routines. This course offers a solid foundation in statistical reasoning and its uses in the quantitative social sciences.Learning statistics can be a daunting experience. There is a plethora of statistical concepts to master and many of them come with a hefty dose of mathematical notation. The goal of the present course is to develop a clear path through the conceptual forest and to explain each concept both in its narrow meaning and as a part of the larger enterprise of statistical reasoning. Mathematical skills are not taken for granted; instead, we shall review the necessary mathematical tools so that you will not get stuck on this aspect.The field of statistics is sometimes divided into descriptive and inferential statistics, with probability theory forming a bridge between the two. In this course, we start out descriptively, by considering different ways in which we can learn from data. We then delve into the subject of probability theory, to end with a discussion of statistical inference. The emphasis in this part is on learning how to draw conclusions about populations with the help of data from a sample.By the end of this course, you should have a good feeling for descriptive statistics, statistical inference, and probability theory. You should also understand the interplay of these elements in the broader enterprise of statistical reasoning. And you should feel more comfortable reading about statistics and using them in your own work.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeWasser in der Schweiz. Tauchen Sie ein!Woher kommt das Wasser in der Schweiz? Was ist ein Jahrhunderthochwasser? Wie viel Wasser braucht die Schweiz? Warum ist Wasser so wichtig für die Schweiz? -- Wasser ist so zentral für unser tägliches Leben und trotzdem ist das Wissen über Wasser häufig begrenzt. Dieser Kurs beantwortet viele Fragen rund um das Wasser in der Schweiz – schwimmen Sie mit!In sieben Modulen berichten verschiedene Wasserexperten über die vielen Aspekte des Wassers in der Schweiz. In den ersten Modulen eignen Sie sich verschiedene hydrologische Grundlagen an und erfahren mehr zu Niederschlag, Abfluss und wichtigen hydrologischen Konzepten. Auf diesem Wissen bauen die weiteren Module auf, in denen dann Themen wie Wasserqualität, Hochwasser und Wasserkraft behandelt werden. Mit einem Einblick über die Bedeutung von Wasser für Kultur und Kunst wird der Kurs abgerundet.Lernen Sie mehr über die hydrologischen Bedingungen in der Schweiz, staunen Sie über die Vielfältigkeit des Wassers und erfahren Sie, wie das Element Wasser den Alltag in der Schweiz prägt.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeSpace is a basic category of human thought. Over the last decades it became a very productive scientific category, too. Thinking about spaces, places, locations, or landscapes covers a spectrum of meanings from the concrete and material through to the abstract and metaphorical. In this course we explore various categories of space in the field of Old Norse culture. Together with international guest scholars from different fields we want to find out how mythological, heroic, historical, geographical spaces or landscapes look like in written and oral narratives, but also on picture-stones, runic inscriptions, paintings, woodcarvings and manuscripts. Another promising question could be to ask about the relationship between texts, images and maps and the process of mapping itself.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeThe course grew out of the author's experiences as an early adopter and advocate of newer technologies (such as Coursera) for online teaching. During the past year, the author often came in contact with higher education professionals who felt lost in the new landscape, and unprepared technology-wise. This is an attempt to educate anyone in this situation, and thereby empower everyone to anticipate changes in the field and make better professional decisions. Part of the emphasis will be to explain the technology, because it was and will be a catalyst of further evolutions in education.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeCardiovascular diseases are – according to the (World Health Organization (WHO) – the number one cause of death globally. Myocardial infarction (heart attack) is the most prominent under the Cardiovascular diseases. In Switzerland alone, the risk to develop a coronary heart disease during life time is around 25% for men and 18% for women.Most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioral risk factors, the understanding of these risk factors, their mechanisms and impact on the cardiovascular system.In this context our course aims to approach the complex field of myocardial infarction in two respects: medical education and awareness of a broader audience.
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeThis course will provide you with a basic, intuitive and practical introduction into Probability Theory. You will be able to learn how to apply Probability Theory in different scenarios and you will earn a "toolbox" of methods to deal with uncertainty in your daily life. The course is split in 5 modules. In each module you will first have an easy introduction into the topic, which will serve as a basis to further develop your knowledge about the topic and acquire the "tools" to deal with uncertainty. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to complete 5 exercise sessions to reflect about the content learned in each module and start applying your earned knowledge right away. The topics covered are: "Probability", "Conditional Probability", "Applications", "Random Variables", and "Normal Distribution".You will see how the modules are taught in a lively way, focusing on having an entertaining and useful learning experience! We are looking forward to see you online!
Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeSince the invention of the telescope in 1608, outer space has been turned into an abode, a place scientific speculation and literary imagination could thrive on simultaneously. The human mind was sent on a journey to visit other planets – and time after time it returned from there with breathtaking news, disturbing images or philosophical insight. And, of course, with a lot of questions: Why funeral customs on the Moon include cannibalism and orgies? Is it true that the people of Mars do live according to higher moral standards than we do? And where does this weird alien obsession with terrestrial paper actually come from?These are some of the questions we will be addressing within this course. Moreover, we will watch the birth of the alien reader, we will explore the logics of space invasion and the history of space colonies well. We will examine the inventory of extraterrestrial libraries and survey the competing projects of galactic encyclopedias. Next to well-known authors as Kepler, Cyrano de Bergerac, Stapledon or Lem, you will also be introduced to neglected and forgotten texts. Finally, we might even understand how literature itself was transformed by this journey throughout the universe – and how it finally became a true interstellar medium.The soundtrack to this MOOC will be provided by Swiss artists Bit-Tuner and Darkspace.Keywords: Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, Extraterrestrial Literature, Spacebooks