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Entrepreneurship 1: Developing the Opportunity
by Lori Rosenkopf , Karl T. Ulrich , Ethan Mollick , Kartik Hosanagar , David Hsu- 4.8
Approx. 11 hours to complete
What is entrepreneurship and who fits the profile of an entrepreneur? You’ll explore where technology entrepreneurship and impact entrepreneurship align and where they diverge, and you’ll learn proven techniques for identifying the opportunity, assessing the opportunity, hypothesis testing and creating a prototype. 4 Venture Creation's Role in Society 6 Technology Entrepreneurship...
Blockchain Transformations of Financial Services
by Don Tapscott , Alex Tapscott- 4.7
Approx. 16 hours to complete
The current global financial system is riddled with inefficiencies, uneven developments, and bizarre contradictions. In this course, you will learn how blockchain technology will disrupt the core functions of the financial services industry, offering individuals and organizations alike real choices in how they create and manage value. Identify the threats and opportunities of blockchain technology for central bank...
Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management
by Philip Peck , Jessika Luth Richter , Karl Vrancken , Saskia Manshoven , Jeroen Gillabel , Erika Faigen , Konstantinos Modis , Sophie Sfez , Julia Nußholz , Katherine Whalen , David Peck , Dr. Yuliya Voytenko Palgan- 4.8
Approx. 19 hours to complete
This module explores where materials come from, and builds a rationale for why society needs more circularity. Module 4: Policies and Networks. This module examines new norms, forms of engagement, social systems, and institutions, needed by the circular economy and how we, as individuals, can help society become more circular. Circular Design, Innovation and Assessment...
Advanced Modeling for Discrete Optimization
by Prof. Jimmy Ho Man Lee , Prof. Peter James Stuckey- 4.9
Approx. 47 hours to complete
Optimization is a common form of decision making, and is ubiquitous in our society. The same technology can schedule planes and their crews, coordinate the production of steel, and organize the transportation of iron ore from the mines to the ports. Debugging and Improving Models Symmetry and Dominance 1 Symmetries and LexLeader...
Basic Modeling for Discrete Optimization
by Prof. Peter James Stuckey , Prof. Jimmy Ho Man Lee- 4.8
Approx. 28 hours to complete
Optimization is a common form of decision making, and is ubiquitous in our society. The same technology can schedule planes and their crews, coordinate the production of steel, and organize the transportation of iron ore from the mines to the ports. 4 Models and Instances 6 Arrays and Comprehensions Reference 5: Strings and Output...
Being a researcher (in Information Science and Technology)
by Carlo Ghezzi- 4.9
Approx. 7 hours to complete
The course provides a broad view of how to become and progress as a researcher. It spans over a wide range of topics, from the historical development of scientific thought to research methodology, to the pragmatics of publication, research funding, evaluation, and promotion in a researcher’s career. Scientific progress and the progress of society...
Shaping Work of the Future
by Thomas Kochan , Barbara Dyer , Elisabeth Reynolds , Inez von Weitershauen- 0.0
8 Weeks
The goal of this course is to understand the relationship between new technologies, work and society and develop plans of action for improving the job and career opportunities for today and tomorrow's workforce. How emerging technologies are transforming the nature of human work and skills needed, and how we can shape technology innovation to augment human potential....
$49
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The Architectural Imagination
by Lisa Haber-Thomson , K. Michael Hays , Erika Naginski , Antoine Picon- 0.0
10 Weeks
Architecture engages a culture’s deepest social values and expresses them in material, aesthetic form. You will discover ways that innovative technology can enable and promote new aesthetic experiences, or disrupt age-old traditions. You will learn about architecture’s power of representation and see how it can produce collective meaning and memory. Social and historical contexts behind major works of architecture...
$199
Standardisation & Technology
by Jan Smits- 4.5
Approx. 8 hours to complete
Welcome to the course standardisation and technology! Nowadays technology is rapidly advancing and standards play an ever increasing role. How are we able to orchestrate something so huge as the internet without technical agreements and protocols, without standards? Each week video lectures and reading material according to the bibliography in in the introduction will be provided....
Discrete Optimization
by Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck , Dr. Carleton Coffrin- 4.8
Approx. 65 hours to complete
This class teaches you how to solve complex search problems with discrete optimization concepts and algorithms, including constraint programming, local search, and mixed-integer programming. Optimization technology is ubiquitous in our society. Optimization clears the day-ahead and real-time markets to deliver electricity to millions of people. Knapsack 5 - relaxation, branch and bound...