10 free online courses that can be written next week

Learn to play chess and to make websites, develop marketing and Chinese, explore virtual reality and biotechnology.

1. Marketing: basic categories, principles and approaches

start the course: May 7, 2018.
course duration7 weeks.
Area: Coursera.
Organizer: Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great.
Tongue: Russian.
Is free without a certificate.

Storehouse of useful information for B2C and B2B business leaders, as well as the novice marketers and sales managers. You will get acquainted with the methods of marketing research, learn to understand the aspects of consumer behavior and evaluate the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

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2. The site with his own hands for five days

start the course: May 2018.
The volume of the course5 modules.
Area"Stepik".
Tongue: Russian.

Why do I need a website? Where to get ideas and inspiration to create it? How does Designer sites LPMotor? How to assemble and adjust the semantic core "Yandex. Metric "? Answers to these and other questions - in a crash course for beginners.

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3. Trends VR: Virtual Reality for Business and social media

Date and time of employment: May 11, 2018 at 17:00 Moscow time.
volume1 activity.
Area"Netologiya".
AuthorDmitry Trofimchuk, SMM-manager Yode Group Digital.
Tongue: Russian.

Virtual reality - is not just entertainment. It is widely used to solve business problems and takes a course of rapprochement with social media. At this open session introduces you to the VR views and find out what items are already being used in social networks.

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4. computing management

start the course: May 2018.
The volume of the course5 modules.
Area"Stepik".
Organizer: Institute of Bioinformatics.
Tongue: Russian.

The course is for those who work with large data sets. The first part deals with Linux-containers and Docker. In the second and third part we are talking about different approaches to automate the calculation process and the tools that implement these approaches.

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5. The strength of microeconomics: economic principles in the real world

start the course: May 7, 2018.
course duration13 weeks.
Area: Coursera.
Organizer: University of California, Irvine.
Tongue: English + Ukrainian subtitles.
Is free without a certificate.

As part of the academic course, you will learn what the demand and consumer behavior, why prices are rising or falling, how the competition and that the effect on wages. This knowledge will be useful to you not only in your career but also in everyday life.

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6. Fundamentals of Chess Tactics

start the course: May 2018.
The volume of the course: 25 lectures.
Area: Udemy.
AuthorBrendan Norman, a chess coach, author of a blog about chess.
Tongue: English.

If you only want to learn to play chess, read article tips Layfhakera. If you have already mastered the rules and played a couple of dozens of parties, it is time to move on to the working off of chess operations. As the great German chess player Richard Teichmann, chess is 99% made up of tactics.

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7. Elocution lessons

start the course: May 2018.
The volume of the course6 lectures.
Area"All courses".
Author: YouTube-channel "Education for All".
Tongue: Russian.

Stage speech - is a clear pronunciation, intonation expressiveness and proper breathing. Her staging - a process long and complicated. But even this small series of video lectures to help you go from a simple everyday speech to the bright sound of the speaker.

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8. Advanced Chinese for beginners

start the course: May 7, 2018.
course duration6 weeks.
Area: Coursera.
OrganizerPeking University.
Tongue: English.
Is free without a certificate.

The course will help you to expand your vocabulary, learn new expressions (greetings, request, approval, waiver) and to practice speaking. After its passage, you will better understand the Chinese and be able to tell about themselves and their daily lives.

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9. country origami

start the course: May 2018.
The volume of the course1 module.
Area"Stepik".
Tongue: Russian.

This is an ancient Japanese art teaches us think outside the box, developing mathematical skills and fine motor skills. Origami helps aesthetically comprehend images of familiar objects, highlighting their beauty in a converted form. Having given a short course, you and your kids can make paper gnome, frog, wolf and other characters.

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10. war bacteria

start the course: May 2018.
The volume of the course11 modules.
Area"PostNauka".
Tongue: Russian.

Fighting bacteria and the human immune system goes millennium. What evolutionary processes lie at its basis? Why viruses are becoming more resistant to drugs? How are vaccine and why you need to guzzle a course of antibiotics to the end? On this and not only - in the joint course "PostNauki" and "Skolkovo Tech."

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