This three-week course provides a foundation for marketers and analysts seeking to understand the core principles of digital analytics and to improve business performance through better digital measurement. Course highlights include: * An overview of today’s digital measurement landscape * Guidance...

Better data leads to better policies. For policymakers to make sound policy decisions, they need a core set of macroeconomic and financial statistics. Learn the essential background concepts and basic tools needed to compile data using the best available methods. This course reviews the...

A cross-disciplinary look at the biological factors that influence sex, fertility and making babies in modern society. Are you trying to conceive? Do you want to prevent conception (contraception)? Would you like to know more about your fertility? Have you considered how social factors influence the...

Develop a comprehensive plan for increasing your personal leadership capacity to effect meaningful change now and into the future. Explore methods and strategies to critique and rethink organisational practices in education; develop staff and student wellbeing; and use coaching to support and lead change...

Learn how to design, configure, and manage a cloud computing infrastructure. As Cloud Computing shapes businesses of all sizes, it is vital to understand the technologies behind cloud infrastructure, both public and private. This course, part of the Cloud Computing MicroMasters program, focuses on components...

Learn basic R programming to analyze biological big data to locate genes, perform simulations, and gauge the effect of specific markers. Improvements in modern biology have led to a rapid increase in sensitivity and measurability in experiments and have reached the point where it is often impossible...

Learn how to get to a net zero energy use of an existing building. Reduction of energy consumption of buildings is an important step in the move towards a sustainable economy. How can buildings be made net zero energy, in different climates?This course introduces you to zero energy design. It will teach...

Understand cloud computing technologies and how they can increase business productivity and effectiveness. Organizations are increasingly moving their critical information and assets to the cloud. Understand the technology, best practices, and economics of cloud computing, and the rewards and risks of...

An introduction to the emerging field of global healthcare quality. Improving access to healthcare is only as useful as the quality of care provided. Many agree that quality is important – but what is it? How do we define it? How do we measure it? And most importantly, how might we make it better...

Gain the skills necessary to effectively manage a corporation’s finances. Learn to use discounted cash flow, rate-of-return analyses and other financial management tools to evaluate projects, investments, and financial instruments. Want to learn how to make your corporation’s money make money...

Discover the science and complexity of railway systems, including how their efficiency depends on the alignment of all their components. Have you ever wondered what it takes to get your train on the right platform at the scheduled time every day?Journey with us into the world of rail - a complex system...

Learn how corporate leaders make effective decisions to maximize profitability and achieve strategic organizational goals. Need a career boost? Every business depends on the acumen of its financial leaders. Learn to make profitable financial decisions from UMGC professors who have been distance educators...

Learn software quality techniques beyond just running test cases. Want to gain software quality skills used in mission critical systems? Modeling checking, symbolic execution and formal methods are techniques that are used for mission critical systems where human life depends upon the system working...

Understand key aspects of business operations and lean management including capacity, productivity, quality, and supply chain. Have you ever wondered about the right methods to improve productivity, configure your supply chain or address the demand on hand? In recent years, businesses have strived to...

Advance your telecom career by learning how 4G networks enable internet access for smartphone users anytime, anywhere. 4G is the cutting-edge network technology that links millions of smartphones to the internet. But how does it actually work? Ideal for network engineers, sales engineers, application...

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise? Learn about contracts from Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried, one of the world’s leading authorities...

Explore the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays. In the first act of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Ghost of the dead King of Denmark appears to his son, setting off a chain of events that culminates in the play’s notoriously bloody finale...

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor. During each module of this course, chefs reveal the secrets...

Do you have the curiosity and creativity for a career in the world of property?

Learn how to design effective activities as a STEM Ambassador or volunteer in science, tech, engineering or maths.