Based on
CourseTalk's course ratings, here are the current 5 top rated upcoming courses with 5 reviews or more:
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1
In this course you will learn several fundamental principles of algorithm design. You'll learn the divide-and-conquer design paradigm, with applications to fast sorting, searching, and multiplication. You'll learn several blazingly fast primitives for computing on graphs, such as how to compute connectivity information and shortest paths. Finally, we'll study how allowing the computer to "flip coins" can lead to elegant and practical algorithms and data structures. Learn the answers to questions such as: How do data structures like heaps, hash tables, bloom filters, and balanced search trees actually work, anyway? How come QuickSort runs so fast? What can graph algorithms tell us about the structure of the Web and social networks? Did my 3rd-grade teacher explain only a suboptimal algorithm for multiplying two numbers?
Statistics One
- 4 star rating
- 19 Reviews
- Free
Statistics One is designed to be a comprehensive yet friendly introduction to fundamental concepts in statistics. Comprehensive means that this course provides a solid foundation for students planning to pursue more advanced courses in statistics. Friendly means exactly that. The course assumes very little background knowledge in statistics and introduces new concepts with several fun and easy to understand examples.
This course is, quite literally, for everyone. If you think you can't learn statistics, this course is for you. If you had a statistics course before but feel like you need a refresher, this course is for you. Even if you are a relatively advanced researcher or analyst, this course provides a foundation and a context that helps to put one’s work into perspective.
Statistics One also provides an introduction to the R programming language. All the examples and assignments will involve writing code in R and interpreting R output. R software is free! What this means is you can download R, take this course, and start programming in R after just a few lectures. That said, this course is not a comprehensive guide to R or to programming in general.
Introduction to Financial and Management Accounting
- 4 star rating
- 5 Reviews
- Free
Interested in a career in business? Knowledge of finance will be key to your success. This Introduction to Financial and Management Accounting course is an ideal starting point if you want to:
- Start a career in business, finance or accountancy
- Study business or finance at school or college
- Launch your own start-up
- Prepare for ACCA’s exams in Recording Financial Transactions (FA1) and Management Information (MA1).
And the best thing is you do not need any previous knowledge of accounting- Simply sign up and start your learning journey.
This course does not offer an edX certificate. For learners who would like to earn an ACCA certificate for this course, please register with ACCA as a student. Once you pass ACCA’s computer-based exams on demand, you will need to complete an online and interactive module on the "Foundations in Professionalism." Upon completion of this module, you be awarded the Introductory Certificate in Financial and Management Accounting from ACCA.
Introduction to Philosophy
- 4 star rating
- 28 Reviews
- Free
This course will introduce you to some of the main areas of research in contemporary philosophy. Each week a different philosopher will talk you through some of the most important questions and issues in their area of expertise. We’ll begin by trying to understand what philosophy is – what are its characteristic aims and methods, and how does it differ from other subjects? Then we’ll spend the rest of the course gaining an introductory overview of several different areas of philosophy. Topics you’ll learn about will include: * Epistemology, where we’ll consider what our knowledge of the world and ourselves consists in, and how we come to have it; * Philosophy of science, where we’ll investigate foundational conceptual issues in scientific research and practice; * Philosophy of Mind, where we’ll ask questions about what it means for something to have a mind, and how minds should be understood and explained; * Moral Philosophy, where we’ll attempt to understand the nature of our moral judgements and reactions – whether they aim at some objective moral truth, or are mere personal or cultural preferences, and; * Metaphysics, where we’ll think through some fundamental conceptual questions about the nature of reality. The development of this MOOC has been led by the University of Edinburgh's research centre.
The Biology of Water and Health - Part 1
- 4 star rating
- 6 Reviews
- Free
This course from Tufts University examines increasingly critical water-related issues through a distinctly global and interdisciplinary lens.
In Part 1 of the course, you will explore the multi-faceted ways in which water and human health are interrelated, including the influence of waterborne pathogens on public health and the central role of water quantity and quality in preserving health through adequate sanitation and hygiene.
The unique interdisciplinary approach of this course gives the general public, as well as health professionals in a variety of fields, a provocative introduction to the public health and human engineering components involved in the provision of safe water and sanitation. It provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the place of water in health policy and engineering by helping participants give informed voice to the ways in which water is involved in social interactions, belief systems, and the economics of an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world.
Part 2 of this course, focusing on creating sustainable interventions for safe water, will begin on Tuesday, September 29, 2015.
This course is the first in a 2-part series that will be offered in 2014-2015 by Tufts University. All course content is openly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. After the conclusion of the course, materials will be available through edX as well on the Tuft University
Open Courseware website.
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