How many online courses you have been in the past year? Be honest! If you think that is unforgivable enough, do not rush to blame yourself. There is still a month to pump their knowledge in a particular discipline. We have collected for you 10 courses on Coursera, which can be booked in December.
Start of the course: the 1st of December
Course duration: 4 weeks
Organizer: Johns Hopkins University
Tongue: English + Russian subtitles
Data science - this is the section of computer science that studies the analysis, processing and presentation of data in digital form. Coursera this direction on the subject of a specialty - Data Science. In December, starts several courses, included in its composition. The first is called "set of data processing tools for professionals." This is the theoretical and programmatic basis of all specializations.
Start of the course: the 1st of December
Course duration: 4 weeks
Organizer: Johns Hopkins University
Tongue: English + Russian subtitles
The next course of Data Science specialization dedicated programming language for statistical data processing and graphics - R. From this you will know that R represents and how to use it for efficient data analysis. you also get a number of practical skills, in particular, learn how to customize the programs.
Start of the course: the 1st of December
Course duration: 4 weeks
Organizer: Johns Hopkins University
TongueEnglish
The third course of the specialization of the collection of data from various sources, as well as ordering and filtering. Every week you will receive video lectures and tests that will help consolidate the theoretical material.
The rest of the courses in the specialization "data science" you will find here.
Start of the course: at any time
Course duration: 9:00 Video + tests
Organizer: University of Virginia
Tongue: English
In addition to disciplines with a clear timetable, Coursera offers students self-regulated courses. You can start them at any time and work at their own pace (to study all the material for a couple of days or a couple of months). However, at the end you do not get certified. As a rule, the status of "always open" are courses, which caused great excitement among the students.
"Half a century of Kennedy" - one of those. November 22, 1963 the 35th president of the United States shot. According to political scientist Professor Robert Kent Gooch, this event greatly affected the course of history. How exactly? Find out for yourself.
Start of the course: at any time
Course duration: 6:00 Video + tests
Organizer: Peking University
Tongue: English
This is another popular course, which can develop in a comfortable mode. Recently, we have studied on Layfhakere goals and motives of development of the Chinese language. If you're reading this article, decide for yourself - "Learn", this self-regulated course you will be a great help. Its feature practical orientation. At the end you will be able to get acquainted with a native speaker, ask about the product and the price in the store, and just talk about the weather. In this case, you do not have to learn the characters - the course focuses on conversational Chinese.
Start of the course: the 1st of December
Course duration: 13 weeks
Organizer: Duke University
Tongue: English
Recently, the robot "Phil" landed on the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In this case, the spacecraft flew up to her for ten years, covered the distance of 500 million kilometers. This news caused a strong reaction, even among people far from the space program. Human knowledge of the universe, in spite of many years of studying the history, scanty. But her secrets excite the minds of scientists and ordinary citizens. This course is slightly open to you the veil of secrecy. Starting with the basics (structure of the solar system, black holes, quasars, etc.), you will learn all the accumulated knowledge of the universe.
Start of the course: the 1st of December
Course duration: 4 weeks
Organizer: University of Maryland
Tongue: English
This course will help transform a good business idea into a successful company. The course will last four weeks. At first the students will be asked to consider what the business as it relates to innovation and creativity. The second week will learn to think like a businessman and to take risky enterprise solutions. The third is devoted to the week the industry, and the fourth - work with clients, business planning and business modeling. At the end of the course you will receive a certificate. The course is part of specialization - Entrepreneurship: Launching an Innovative Business.
Start of the course: at any time
Course duration: 18 hours of video + tests
Organizer: University of Washington
Tongue: English
Cicero wrote: "Poets are born, speakers are." If you want to become a first-class speaker, then pay attention to this course. Nowadays honed speaking skills and public speaking are indispensable in terms of professional growth. The peculiarity of this course is that your "judges" are the same students like you. You have to act (course in English) before other course participants, and they - to analyze your mistakes and achievements.
Start of the course: at any time
Course duration: 5.5 hours of video + tests
Organizer: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tongue: English
Ebola virus - this phrase suggests many horror bordering on panic. The epidemic of hemorrhagic fever that is raging right now in West Africa, and a vaccine is still no. Perhaps this is caused by the popularity of this course amongst Coursera students. After he examines patterns of occurrence and dissemination of disease either locally (e.g., heart disease people of a certain age, or profession) and globally (the reasons for the rapid expansion of various diseases).
Start of the course: December 22
Course duration: 4 weeks
Organizer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tongue: English
Why Coursera and the University of Illinois offer this course for free? Why is the divorce rate so high in the world? Is marijuana legalization will lead to a decline in crime? And where are the microeconomics? If you think that an economist - is a man who thinks money is Professor Jose Vazquez-Kognet will turn your world. The purpose of this course - to show how microeconomics affects such seemingly non-material aspects of life, such as marriage, love, education, etc.