Our Courses

Introduction to Biology: Ecology, Evolution, & Biodiversity

In this 3-course specialization, you will learn to see nature the way a biologist does. You will gain an understanding and appreciation for the incredible diversity of life and the interdependence of all living things. You will explore what we know about the origins of life and how biologists have advanced the science of evolution since Charles Darwin's lifetime, as well as the many applications of evolutionary biology to our everyday lives; you will examine the characteristics, functions, origins, and the roles of each major group of living things.

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• English

Organizational Leadership

Equip yourself to successfully lead organizations through clarity of purpose and effective collaboration — by building and motivating teams; designing and delivering powerful stories; developing strategies to appropriately influence; understanding underlying customer analytics and applying innovative approaches to deliver impact. How do aspiring managers succeed in an ever-changing business environment? How do they lead different groups to action?

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• English

Introduction to Family Engagement in Education

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

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• English

Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity

A MITx/HarvardX collaboration, this course explores Japan’s transition into the modern world through the historical visual record.

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Japanese Architecture and Structural Design

In this revised course, fundamental and modern approaches to Japanese structural design will be explained using historical overviews and Tokyo-Tech’s campus buildings as case studies. Learners will be able to interpret and apply seismic design concepts like energy-dissipating braced frames, spine frames, seismic retrofit, seismic isolation and seismic design of spatial structures.

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Friendship machine: forming a new type of human connections

Did you know that there are now 2.6 billion gamers in the world? By 2021, that number is expected to rise by 125 million. In terms of revenue, the video game industry has become bigger than the movie and music industries put together. Video games are sweeping the globe, quickly becoming a primary shaper of culture.

In an age of seemingly increasing social isolation and loneliness, communities are being formed and friendships forged in video games. But can you design for friendship? Do virtual connections have a meaningful impact on humans? What is the cost of loneliness?

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• English

Project Management for Development

A MOOC developed in collaboration with the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF). Learn best practices for managing projects that promote economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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• 15
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Assembling and Testing a Quadcopter

Learn the crucial skills of system-level integration, comprehensive testing, and collaboration to design and evaluate quadcopter systems effectively.

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• 6
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Teamwork & Collaboration

Learn essential teamwork and collaboration skills to lead, build and motivate teams in the workplace.

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• 30
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Stakeholder Collaboration: Organizing for Environmental Justice and Equitable Solutions

Co-produce outcomes on your environmental projects by effectively engaging and motivating diverse communities to work towards a shared vision founded in environmental goals.

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• 24
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Landscape Governance: Collaborating Across Sectors and Scales

Finding local solutions to global challenges relies on collaboration & innovation. Equip yourself with the knowledge & skills to design and implement effective landscape governance that harnesses the power of place for sustainable landscape solutions.

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• 15
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Climate Action in Biodiverse Landscapes

There is no planet B. It's time to take effective climate action for which collaboration and innovation are key. This online course will boost your knowledge and skills to help you move from analysis to action in order to develop climate smart landscapes across the world.

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• 18
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Try It: Intro to GitHub

GitHub is a code storage and collaboration service that’s used by over 100 million software developers to build and maintain their software. If you’re interested in collaborating more efficiently on coding projects, this free intro course to GitHub may be just what you need.

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UX Management

Be a UX advocate! Lead the gamut of user-centered design activities, while sharing knowledge and ensuring rich collaboration with all stakeholders across the project.

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• English

Empathy and Emotional Intelligence at Work

Learn research-based skills to strengthen empathy and trust, improve collaboration, and create more innovative, productive, and satisfying experiences at work.

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Financing Infrastructure in African Cities

The world is urbanizing fast. In less than a century more than 1 billion people have been urbanized. That translates into the fact that more than half of the world’s population is already living in cities. Experts forecast that very soon Africa will become one of the most urbanized continents. However, almost 70% of world’s urban population is living in the cities where governments are struggling to provide basic services like sanitation, schools, hospitals, and adequate clean water. The reason is that, their governments do not have enough money.

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• 22 hours
• English

Automation Business Analysis - Concepts and Principles

Change is inevitable and so are the digital disruptions in every industry. What’s important from a business perspective is to align and adapt to such digital disruptions. In today’s competitive business market, the key to success is wise data-driven decisions, made based on reliable information. As part of your work responsibilities, you would have discovered, synthesized, and analyzed information collected from various sources at some point in time. This is Business Analysis.

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• 14 hours
• English

Digital Fashion Reality

Digital Fashion Reality is a collaboration between Parsons School of Design at The New School and The Digital Fashion Group Academy.
This course explores how to remove the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds to create a hybrid, taking an interactive approach to consumer engagement.

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• 18 hours
• English

Getting started with Google Workspace

This training equips students with the skills they need to become productive with Google Workspace.

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• English

Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future

You’ll never have a complete picture of what's possible in the future if you look at it from just one point of view. The best way to expand your vision? Engage as many people as you can, and “game out” the possibilities together. In this course, you’ll learn how to use collaborative gaming techniques to go beyond your own thinking and see many, many different sides of the same future.

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• 15 hours
• English

Survey Data Collection and Analytics

This specialization covers the fundamentals of surveys as used in market research, evaluation research, social science and political research, official government statistics, and many other topic domains.

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• English

Defying Disruption: How to Become an Un-Disruptable Leader

Defying Disruption: How to Become an Un-Disruptable Leader is a collaboration between Parsons School of Design at The New School and Mark Lipton LLC. In the Defying Disruption: How to Become an Un-Disruptable Leader spe…

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IBM IT Scrum Master

Advance your career as an IT Scrum Master. As more organizations adopt Agile development practices, the demand for Scrum Masters, especially in the IT industry, is expected to grow significantly over the next 10 years. In this program, you’ll develop the skills, tools, and portfolio to have a competitive edge in the job market. Scrum Masters play a crucial role leading teams using Agile project management methodologies to lead projects to a successful completion. They work to remove any obstacles that may hinder project completion or progress.

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Assessing and Improving Community Health

This course is intended to serve as an introduction to population health from both the vantage point of both public health and healthcare. We will examine the key components of community health needs assessments, how they are used, and how to compare population health assessments across subpopulations and time. We will also explore the epidemiological sources and criteria by which to select high quality data sources to estimate population health indicators and to select evidence-based interventions to improve population health.

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• 15 hours
• English

Nursing Informatics Leadership

Nurses and interprofessional healthcare clinicians and educators will learn principles of informatics leadership in clinical and academic settings, and apply their learning to real world scenarios in practice and training/education environments.

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• English