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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and coursera offers an online course health for all through primary health care for free. This course explores why primary health care is central for achieving Health for All. It provides ...

Difficulties with reading and writing, often called ‘developmental dyslexia', is a complex condition which often presents with other difficulties in maths, short-term memory and concentration. About the courseThis course is for teachers to learn why some children have ...

Standford University and Coursera offers an free online course on mining massive datasets. This course teaches algorithms for extracting models and other information from very large amounts of data. The emphasis is on techniques that are efficient and ...

Curtis Institute of Music and coursera offers a free online course on western music history through performance. About the course:A survey of music history begins with those works that convey the artistic trends, innovations, and compositional techniques representative ...

A production course geared to performers, choreographers, and other artists interested in producing site-specific work. Through three assignments, students will have the opportunity to plan and conceptualize a site-specific work. About the course:This course focuses on the creation ...

Childbirth: A Global Perspective; this course will review challenges for maternal and newborn health in the developing world, where a great many women and babies are suffering from complications during pregnancy, childbirth, and the days following birth. About ...

Volcanic eruptions are a powerful demonstration of the energy of the Earth´s interior. A materials-based understanding of the evolution of erupting systems provides a quantitative physico-chemical description of the nature of lava and magma and the role of experiments ...

The University of Pennsylvania Wharton and coursera offers an online course an introduction to operations management. This course will teach candidates how to analyze and improve business processes, be it in services or in manufacturing. Candidates will learn ...

Origins - Formation of the Universe, Solar System, Earth and Life is a free online course conducted by the University of Copenhagen. The course follows the evolution of life on our planet through deep geological time to present life ...

University of Michigan and Coursera offers an online course on model thinking for free. In this class, candidates will learn how to think with models and use them to make sense of the complex world around us. ...

Corporate Finance Essentials is a free online course conducted by the IESE Business School. This course will enable course takers to understand key financial issues related to companies, investors, and the interaction between them in the capital markets. ...

Advanced instructional strategies in the virtual classroom is a part of the virtual teacher programme specialisation. In this course students will learn how to evaluate their teaching by studying what some of the most successful virtual teachers are doing ...

Global warming: The science and modeling of climate change is a free online course conducted by the University of Chicago. This course describes the science of global warming and the forecast for humans' impact on Earth's climate. ...

University of Lausanne and coursera offers an online course on unethical decision making in organisations for free. This course 'Unethical decision making in organisations: A seminar on the dark side of the force' will teach you how strong ...