

Our Courses

Sustainable Soil Management: Soil for life
Soil is the earth’s fragile skin that anchors all life. We depend on soil to build our homes and cities, to grow crops for food and raise livestock, to support transportation and enable recreation. Yet we disregard this crucial and precious resource that lies right under our feet. Learn why soil is so important, how it's being threatened and what we can do to protect this natural resource so vital to our lives.
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Tourism and Climate Change
Global tourism’s CO2 emissions and overall environmental impact are substantial. Yet, is spite of the tourism sector’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, it continues to grow exponentially, driven by an ever rising tourism demand. Join Wageningen University & Research as our successful Tourism team explores the mutual impacts of tourism stakeholders and the climate. Take on our challenge of reimagining the tourism industry toward low-carbon, sustainable development! Subscribe now.
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Sustainable Tourism: Rethinking the future
Considering the negative impacts on climate change, the host communities and their natural resources, the growth-driven tourism industry needs to improve its footprint. Join Wageningen University and Research for this online course, nominated for the annual edX® award 2019. Engage in interdisciplinary debates to explore and co-create future responsible travel and tourism initiatives in your (professional) context. Subscribe now.
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The Future of Tourism
Tourism is changing quickly all around the world. It's important for people like tourism planners, managers, and business owners to be able to handle these changes and adapt to them. As a tourism professional, you are or will be, confronted with gradual and sudden forms of natural, socio-political, and economic disruptions that will impact your tourism organization and/or destinations now and in the future.
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Urban Rewilding: Restore Your Local Ecosystem
Would you like to see your neighbourhood become more liveable and sustainable? To alleviate city-specific challenges – from urban heat islands to mental health issues – we need to first change our minds. From wanting to control nature to leveraging its power, we need to allow nature to do what it does best: grow. Join Wageningen University & Research and rewild your city. With gardens, parks and ponds, with indigenous plants and animals, we will see both ecosystems and our living environment restored. Enroll now.
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Agricultural Water Management: Water,-Society and Technology Interactions
Would you like to meet the increasing food demands around the world by contributing to optimisation of water governance and technologies? At Wageningen University & Research, the No. 1 agricultural university of the world, we approach water management from both a technical and a social perspective. Because, properly deploying water technologies for successful water management requires social and institutional agreement. Join us and learn the fundamentals of agricultural water management.
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Cosmic Rays, Dark Matter, and the Mysteries of the Universe
Join us on a unique exploration of one of the universe’s deepest mysteries: cosmic rays
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Culture and Law: The East Asian Perspective
Explore legal cultures in East Asia, Confucianism, apology, and Legal Orientalism.
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Invitation to The Tale of Genji: The Foundational Elements of Japanese Culture
Explore the world's oldest novel written in the eleventh century and develop the perspective to understand Japanese classical literature and the foundation of Japanese culture.
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Property Law in a Globalizing Economy: Diversity or Integration?
Explore international diversity of conveyance rules applicable to several transactions, including highly globalized ones, by comparing American law, German law, and Japanese law. Learn the approaches, to what extent, and how international harmonization should be achieved to take part in such an open-ended discussion in the future.
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Sports Injury Prevention
Learn to cut the risk of sports injury through a combined scientific and practical approach
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Steps in Japanese for Beginners1 Part2
Learn how to acquire essential information, as well as how to convey information to others.
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20
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Steps in Japanese for Beginners2 Part1
Learn casual expressions which are used among people who know each other well and the small talk which helps build personal relationships.
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Steps in Japanese for Beginners3 Part3
Learn academic expressions and interaction at companies
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Introduction to Online Education & Course Planning
Learn the fundamentals of online education and online learners through proven strategies including developing effective online learning modules and course content and materials, planning a learning module using the Backward Design methodology, and defining learning outcomes as well as key course topics.
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Learning Activities & Assessment
Dive deeper into engaging and effective course content including online learning materials, activities and assessments that are designed for online learners.
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Content & Engagement
A successful online course requires appropriate content and ways for learners to engage and interact. This includes best practices to teaching, technologies specific for online teaching, and appropriate course supports.
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Design, Build, & Implement
Take everything you have learned about online education, online learning ojectives, activities and assessments, and content and knowledge to start designing and building your online course in a learning management system.
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Metadata & Training: Connecting Users to Assets
Discover what metadata is and how to connect users to digital assets through descriptive metadata and use cases. Learn metadata management and digital assessment management from the user perspective and the administrator perspective.
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Sustainable DAM: Preservation, Access, and Brand Management
Design the future of your organization’s Digital Asset Management by creating forward-thinking policies, procedures and preservation plans. This includes the digital ecosystem, auditing of assets, product innovation, and long-term preservation.
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Introduction to Bookkeeping
Start learning at your own pace to get a qualification and a career in business and finance, with this introduction level course from ACCA-X.
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16 hours
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Introduction to Management Accounting
Start learning at your own pace to get a qualification and a career in business and finance, with this introduction level course from ACCA-X.
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Intermediate Management Accounting
Get business-ready and prepare for a qualification by building your finance and accountancy skills with this course from ACCA-X.
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The Resilient and Renewable Grid: How Microgrids are Revolutionizing Energy Systems
A foundational course on microgrid systems design with an emphasis on community-based projects and non-grid connected remote systems.
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16 hours
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