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October Learning Opportunities
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Giving 2.0: The MOOC |
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Opened on October 6 |
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This six-week course will teach you how to assess nonprofits, create a high-impact philanthropic strategy, volunteer more effectively, use existing, free technology for good, and more. |
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Organizational Analysis |
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How do we make sense of organizations and the challenges they face, let alone develop means of managing them in desired directions? Take this self-paced course at your leisure. You will learn multiple theories of organizational behavior and apply them to actual cases of organizational change. |
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Engineering & Computer Science
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Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications
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Opened on October 1 |
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Audio signal processing is an engineering field that focuses on the computational methods for intentionally altering sounds—methods that are used in many musical applications. In this ten-week course, you will gain basic theoretical and practical knowledge with which to analyze, synthesize, transform and describe audio signals in the context of music applications. |
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Compilers |
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Opened on October 5 |
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Discuss ideas about the implimentation of compliers. Learn how a program for humans is translated into a program more suited to machines. Topics include: how programming languages are designed; programming language semantics; and why there are so many different kinds of programming languages. |
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Introduction to Haptics |
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This self-paced course provides you with the opportunity to interact with course materials at your own speed. Paticipants will learn how to build, program, and control haptic devices, which are mechatronic devices that allow users to feel virtual or remote environments. Topics include an introduction to haptic technology and human haptics, how to program virtual environments, mechanical characterization and simulation, and how to assemble mechanical systems, make circuits, and program Arduino-based micro-controllers. |
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Surveillance Law |
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Opened on October 14 |
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This six-week course explores how American law facilitates electronic surveillance – but also substantially constrains it. Topics include the basics of surveillance law, applying surveillance law to information technology, compelled assistance to law enforcement, the structure of foreign intelligence surveillance law, and controversial NSA programs. |
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Medical Education in the New Millennium |
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Opened on September 23 |
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This eleven-week interdisciplinary course focuses on the future of medical education, featuring talks from thought leaders and innovators from medical education, instructional design, cognitive science, online learning, and emerging technology. Joining the conversation will be experts from all health care and education stakeholder domains, including patients, and students from nursing, medicine and engineering sciences. |
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Statistics in Medicine (CME) |
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Opened on September 23 |
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Statistics in Medicine (CME) is designed to meet the educational needs of an international audience of physicians, residents and medical researchers in all specialties. This course seeks to fulfill the need in the clinical community to better understand medical statistics as it pertains to practicing evidence based medicine, communicating treatment outcome probability to patients and interpreting the results of studies and scientific papers, and in turn improving quality of patient care. (CME Processing Fee) |
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Natural & Social Sciences
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Introduction to the Natural Capital Project Approach
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Self-Paced, Opened on October 15 |
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This course provides you with the opportunity to interact with course materials at your own pace. Discover how to integrate nature's value into decisions affecting the environment and human well-being. Topics include an introduction to the concepts of natural capital and ecosystem services; an overview of InVest, a software tool for mapping, modeling, and valuing ecosystem services; how to effectively summarize and communicate model outputs to stakeholders and other audiences; and more. |
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Other Online Learning Programs:
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Worldview Stanford:
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Environmental Risk and Resilience |
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Opened on October 27 |
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The Big Picture: Understanding Global Environmental Change. We are entering a new geologic age—the Anthropocene—in which human activity is reshaping the planet and its inhabitants. How will climate change drive environmental shifts in the years ahead? And how can we better understand environmental risks and resilience in order to plan and act? (Fees apply.)
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Genomics and the Other Omics: The Comprehensive Essentials |
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Open for Enrollment |
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Genetics and genomics are undergoing an unparalleled revolution. A better understanding of biology and human health can create breakthroughs in disease treatment and introduces the prospect of personalized medicine. This course will begin with an introduction and review of the general principles of genomics and molecular biology. You will then explore in detail the key genomic technologies and computational approaches that are driving advances in prognostics, diagnostics, and treatment. (Fees apply.) |
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Stanford Innovation at Work |
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Opened on October 23 |
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This dynamic program offers your team a unique opportunity to master the art—and science—of design thinking and use it to address challenges specific to your work. In these workshops, Stanford's d.school's Perry Klebahn and Jeremy Utley will lead your team through a series of exercises and activities that will get you out of your chairs and working together to apply design thinking to real projects and do it now. Participants are encouraged to get out of their chairs and on their feet—take risks, try new behaviors—and work together to generate creative solutions. (Fees apply.) |
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Other Learning Activities:
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Now Open |
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We live in an age of rising inequality, dazzling technological innovation, economic volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, and the accumulating impact of climate change. These conditions confront our political leaders and us as citizens of a democracy plagued by dysfunction. What are the implications for the body politic? State of the Union 2014 examines major themes that contribute to the health, or disease, of the U.S. body politic. |
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Thank you for your interest in learning opportunities available through Stanford Online. We offer many free, online courses taught by Stanford faculty to lifelong learners worldwide for self-enrichment. We also offer a variety of professional education opportunities in conjunction with many of the university's schools and departments. Courses available through Stanford Online are listed at http://online.stanford.edu/courses/.
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