anchor.diff:  Understanding Violence,violence,https://coursera.org/learn/violence,Social Sciences,Emory University,"We are so pleased to have you join us as we investigate this crucial topic. Violence is a leading cause of death, disability and health care use worldwide. Violence is a complex problem and can only be understood and reduced though a multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover patterns of violence including sexual violence; biological, psychological, and social causes (e.g., economic deprivation, religious factors); specific types of violence; how media and the arts portray violence; the economic impact of violence; physical and mental consequences; and ways to control and prevent violence in our communities."
   Understanding economic policymaking,economic-policy,https://coursera.org/learn/economic-policy,Social Sciences,IE Business School,"This course will employ a non-technical approach to analyze how governments use policy to influence a country's economy. Upon completing the course you should be able to discuss national debts and deficits, examine fiscal and monetary policy and their appropriateness to the situation of an economy, and anticipate the results of fiscal and monetary policies and structural reform on a country. These concepts will give you the tools to develop your own position in many current economic debates, such as fiscal stimulus vs. austerity, the merits of quantitative easing, the need for higher interest rates or the future growth path of many modern economies."
   Unethical Decision Making in Organizations,unethical-decision-making,https://coursera.org/learn/unethical-decision-making,Social Sciences,University of Lausanne,This course 'Unethical decision making in organizations : A seminar on the dark side of the force' will teach you how strong organizational contexts push good people towards unethical decisions. You will also learn how to protect yourself and your organization against such forces lurking in the dark.
  +University Teaching,university-teaching,https://coursera.org/learn/university-teaching,Social Sciences,The University of Hong Kong,"University Teaching is an introductory course in teaching and learning in tertiary education, designed by staff at the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Hong Kong.  
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  +With input from instructors, guests and interviewees, including teaching award winners, students, and experts in the fields, you will be exposed to research evidence in relation to effective university teaching and practical instructional design strategies.  You will also be exposed to multiple examples of effective teaching, and hear the views of teachers whose teaching has been judged to be excellent.
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  +More specifically, University Teaching will help you to address the following questions:
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  +- What does teaching in higher education involve? 
  +- What does research evidence tell us about effective teaching in higher education? 
  +- How can we ensure that our instructional design will help our students achieve their intended learning outcomes? 
  +- What pedagogic options do we have to make our teaching successful? 
  +- What assessment and feedback practices can help our students learn more effectively? 
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  +After completing the learning tasks in this course, you will be able to:
  +- Discuss the teaching and learning context in higher education and reflect on the potential challenges and opportunities you might encounter.
  +- Explain key teaching and learning concepts and relevant evidence in relation to effective university teaching.
  +- Analyse the relationships between various aspects of teaching and student learning.
  +- Identify a range of instructional strategies to support effective student learning.
  +- Apply key concepts to the structuring of course outlines and lesson plans in order to create learning experiences to support successful student learning."
   Water Resources Management and Policy,water-management,https://coursera.org/learn/water-management,Social Sciences,University of Geneva,"Water management today is faced with new challenges such as climate change or the effects of human activity. Public and private stakeholders who are active in this field must develop new ways to better manage the water cycle ""as a whole""."
   Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems,water,https://coursera.org/learn/water,Social Sciences,University of Manchester,"Our course explores what can be done to solve the complex problem that half a billion people worldwide do not have improved water supplies and two billion do not have improved sanitation. We look forward to you joining us. We want to help you develop the skills you need to address this major global challenge of the 21st century. Our course has informative video lectures and guest interviews with leading water policy scholars and practitioners. We will provide you with discussion forum topic prompts, which will invite you to engage with other learners from around the globe."
   Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions,water-part-2,https://coursera.org/learn/water-part-2,Social Sciences,University of Manchester,"Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2 is our second MOOC in a two-part sequence, and looks at ‘Developing Effective Interventions’. Here we invite you to develop analytical skills and deep understanding about a complex, controversial policy problem – one with no simple, easy answers. About half a billion people on our planet still lack access to improved water supplies and about two billion do not have improved sanitation services, leading to an unknown but very large number of avoidable deaths each year from water-related diseases. Millions of dollars are spent on avoidable health care expenditures, and people – mostly women – spend many billions of hours carrying water from sources outside the home. Reducing these costs is a major global challenge for us all in the 21st century."
  
positive.code: (2016) Graph Analytics for Big Data,graph-analytics-clone,https://coursera.org/learn/graph-analytics-clone,Data Science,"University of California, San Diego","Want to understand your data network structure and how it changes under different conditions? Curious to know how to identify closely interacting clusters within a graph? Have you heard of the fast-growing area of graph analytics and want to learn more? This course gives you a broad overview of the field of graph analytics so you can learn new ways to model, store, retrieve and analyze graph-structured data."
  (2016) Introduction to Big Data,intro-to-big-data-clone,https://coursera.org/learn/intro-to-big-data-clone,Data Science,"University of California, San Diego","Interested in increasing your knowledge of the Big Data landscape? This course is for those new to data science and interested in understanding why the Big Data Era has come to be. It is for those who want to become conversant with the terminology and the core concepts behind big data problems, applications, and systems. It is for those who want to start thinking about how Big Data might be useful in their business or career. It provides an introduction to one of the most common frameworks, Hadoop, that has made big data analysis easier and more accessible -- increasing the potential for data to transform our world!"
  (2016) Machine Learning With Big Data,machinelearningwithbigdata-clone,https://coursera.org/learn/machinelearningwithbigdata-clone,Data Science,"University of California, San Diego","Want to make sense of the volumes of data you have collected? Need to incorporate data-driven decisions into your process? This course provides an overview of machine learning techniques to explore, analyze, and leverage data. You will be introduced to tools and algorithms you can use to create machine learning models that learn from data, and to scale those models up to big data problems"
  A Crash Course in Data Science,data-science-course,https://coursera.org/learn/data-science-course,Data Science,Johns Hopkins University,"By now you have definitely heard about data science and big data. In this one-week class, we will provide a crash course in what these terms mean and how they play a role in successful organizations. This class is for anyone who wants to learn what all the data science action is about, including those who will eventually need to manage data scientists. The goal is to get you up to speed as quickly as possible on data science without all the fluff. We've designed this course to be as convenient as possible without sacrificing any of the essentials."
  A developer's guide to Exploring and Visualizing IoT Data,exploring-visualizing-iot-data,https://coursera.org/learn/exploring-visualizing-iot-data,Data Science,IBM,"The value of IoT can be found within the analysis of data gathered from the system under observation, where insights gained can have direct impact on business and operational transformation. Through analysis data correlation, patterns, trends, and other insight are discovered. Insight leads to better communication between stakeholders, or actionable insights, which can be used to raise alerts or send commands, back to IoT devices. With a focus on the topic of Exploratory Data Analysis, the course provides an in-depth look at mathematical foundations of basic statistical measures, and how they can be used in conjunction with advanced charting libraries to make use of the world’s best pattern recognition system – the human brain. Learn how to work with the data, and depict it in ways that support visual inspections, and derive to inferences about the data. Identify interesting characteristics, patterns, trends, deviations or inconsistencies, and potential outliers."
  Advanced Linear Models for Data Science 1 : Linear Models,advanced-linear-models-data-science,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-linear-models-data-science,Data Science,Johns Hopkins University,"University of Maryland, College Park"
  
negative.code: Science of Training Young Athletes Part 2,science-of-training-young-athletes-part-2,https://coursera.org/learn/science-of-training-young-athletes-part-2,Personal Development,University of Florida,In this course you will learn how to design the type of training that takes advantage of the plastic nature of the athlete’s body so you mold the right phenotype for a sport. We explore ways the muscular system can be designed to generate higher force and power and the type of training needed to mold the athlete's physical capacity so it meets the energy and biochemical demands of the sport. We also examine the cost of plasticity when it is carried beyond the ability of the body to adjust itself to meet the imposed training stresses.
  "Sit Less, Get Active",get-active,https://coursera.org/learn/get-active,Personal Development,The University of Edinburgh,Physical inactivity and sedentariness are “silent killers”. Do you feel like you spend too much time sitting? Do you feel like you would like to be more active? Are you unsure about how to incorporate physical activity into your daily life? We are here to help. Join us on a journey to learn about how to sit less and become more active. Use this FREE course to learn how to monitor your own activity and set physical activity goals.
  Speaking to inform:  Discussing complex ideas with clear explanations and dynamic slides,inform-speech,https://coursera.org/learn/inform-speech,Personal Development,University of Washington,"In the professional realm, most speeches and presentations we give are informative in scope. A scientist needs to explain her recent research findings. A financial officer needs to report on quarterly earnings to his company’s board. A technology professional needs to educate a consumer about a new product. Any time you need to convey ideas or demonstrate a process, you’re dealing with informative speaking. Informative speaking is a fun puzzle. You need to think from the perspective of your audience to identify what they need to hear in order to understand the key ideas. How much does the audience already know? What are the most important elements to convey?"
  Speaking to persuade: Motivating audiences with solid arguments and moving language,persuade-speech,https://coursera.org/learn/persuade-speech,Personal Development,University of Washington,"In the professional realm, we need to be able to argue without being argumentative. Whether you are fundraising for a nonprofit, pitching a business proposal, or suggesting a change to company policy, you are making arguments. In making the case for your topic, you often want to raise awareness, identify a pressing problem, discuss appropriate solutions, and outline specific steps for the audience. 
  
  To be persuasive, you must be clear (the audience may have little to no existing knowledge), you must be convincing (you are trying to sway the audience that your argument is valid), and you must be compelling (you are trying to motivate the audience enough so that they want to take specific actions). Persuasive speaking thus requires clarity, strategy, topic mastery, plus a sense of style and presence. 
  
  By the end of this course, you should be able to design persuasive speeches that address problems and solutions and that motivate audience members. You should be able to use rhetorical style strategically and deliver passionate and compelling speeches. Learners will record speeches, providing and receiving peer feedback."
  Strengthening Your Widening Network ,strengthening-your-widening-network,https://coursera.org/learn/strengthening-your-widening-network,Personal Development,National University of Singapore,"In this course, you will learn strategies not only on how to communicate effectively but also how to strengthen your relationships with co-workers and other stakeholders from diverse cultural backgrounds, both inside and beyond the organisation. In particular, ""Strengthening your widening network"" aims to equip you with a workplace discourse that facilitates familiarity with practices in the working environment and to help you appreciate the complexities inherent in the organisational structure and hierarchy."
  Studying at Japanese Universities,study-in-japan,https://coursera.org/learn/study-in-japan,Personal Development,The University of Tokyo,"Are you interested in studying at Japanese universities? Do you want to learn about Japan’s university application and enrollment processes, as well as the types of programs on offer? This course will help you to both discover great programs offered by different Japanese universities and prepare a study plan through project-based learning."
  Success,wharton-succcess,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-succcess,Personal Development,University of Pennsylvania,"Do you want to be more successful? This course was designed to help you define what success means to you, and to develop a plan for achieving it. Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell, an award-winning author and the creator of the popular Wharton School course on the meaning of success, created this course to help you answer the questions that arise when you consider how best to use your life. Drawing on his decades of research and mentoring, Shell offers personalized assessments to help you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths. He then combines these with the latest scientific insights on everything from self-confidence and happiness to relationships and careers"
  