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3D Graphics in Android: Sensors and VR (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/3d-graphics-android-sensors-vr This course is an ideal introduction into creating virtual environments in Android. This course is unique as it covers a range of tools and techniques to create immersive 3D environments, giving you a rounded skill set in this growing field. By the end of this course, you will really be able to bring your VR ideas to life! The first part of the course covers animation, lighting and reflection. We then move onto textures and handling multiple 3D objects. Finally, we'll look at housing all |
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A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/guide-to-healthcare-innovation-principles-and-practice This course reflects on global health challenges and the role of innovative solutions in addressing them. By engaging in this course, you will be able to describe the principles and key types of innovation in order to characterise the fundamental features of new models of care and technologies. This course will review the basic features and principles of healthcare innovation. You'll be examining innovations developed to address global health challenges, ranging from simple low-cost technologi |
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Advanced App Development in Android (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/advanced-app-android Offered by Imperial College London. |
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Advanced Creative Thinking and AI: Tools for Success (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-creative-thinking Creativity is important in nearly every facet of life. Advances in neuro-science, computing and psychology, along with developments in other domains and cross-disciplinary areas have resulted in ever increasing understanding of creativity. This module will explore some advanced approaches to creativity such as the use of analogy and metaphor, various thinking styles and the role of artificial intelligence. A framework called the creativity diamond is used to guide the selection of approach to cr |
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Android Graphics with OpenGL ES (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/android-graphics-opengl-es This course will cover the fundamentals of OpenGL and OpenGL ES in Android. This course is unique because it covers the mechanics of how OpenGL works and also more practical applications to draw 2D and 3D objects. This is an ideal primer for more complex courses on VR and AR within Android. We'll begin by covering the OpenGL Pipeline and Shading Language. Then we'll look at drawing simple 2D objects and increasingly complicated 3D objects in OpenGL and OpenGL ES. There are practical exe |
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Building on the SIR Model (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/building-on-the-sir-model The other two courses in this specialisation require you to perform deterministic modelling - in other words, the epidemic outcome is predictable as all parameters are fully known. However, this course delves into the many cases – especially in the early stages of an epidemic – where chance events can be influential in the future of an epidemic. So, you'll be introduced to some examples of such ‘stochasticity’, as well as simple approaches to modelling these epidemics using R. You will examine h |
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Creative Thinking Tools for Success and Leadership (CourseraSpecs) Offered by Imperial College London. Master Creative Thinking: Techniques & Tools. Unlock your potential: Learn advanced creative thinking ... |
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Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/creative-thinking-techniques-and-tools-for-success In today’s ever-growing and changing world, being able to think creatively and innovatively are essential skills. It can sometimes be challenging to step back and reflect in an environment which is fast paced or when you are required to assimilate large amounts of information. Making sense of or communicating new ideas in an innovative and engaging way, approaching problems from fresh angles, and producing novel solutions are all traits which are highly sought after by employers. This course wi |
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Customising your models with TensorFlow 2 (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/customising-models-tensorflow2 Welcome to this course on Customising your models with TensorFlow 2! In this course you will deepen your knowledge and skills with TensorFlow, in order to develop fully customised deep learning models and workflows for any application. You will use lower level APIs in TensorFlow to develop complex model architectures, fully customised layers, and a flexible data workflow. You will also expand your knowledge of the TensorFlow APIs to include sequence models. You will put concepts that you learn |
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Design and Implementation of Digital Health Interventions (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/digital-health-design-implementation This course covers various themes around design, regulatory approaches, ethics, technology adoption, implementation and strategy as applied to digital health. These session cover areas to include data regulations, examples of data breaches in digital health, the challenges and opportunities of technology adoption and implementation with a focus on the non-adoption, abandonment, scale-up, spread and sustainability framework (NASSS Framework). The strategy part of this course focuses on understand |
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Developing the SIR Model (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/developing-the-sir-model Compartmental modelling is a cornerstone of mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and this course will introduce some of the basic concepts in building compartmental models, including how to interpret and represent rates, durations and proportions. You'll learn to place the mathematics to one side and concentrate on gaining intuition into the behaviour of a simple epidemic, and be introduced to further basic concepts of infectious disease epidemiology, such as the basic reprodu |
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Digital Health (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/digitalhealth Offered by Imperial College London. Digital Health - Design, Development, Evaluation. Introduce learners to the role and application of ... |
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Epidemiology for Public Health (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/public-health-epidemiology Offered by Imperial College London. Design and Critique Epidemiological Research. Develop skills that will allow you to conduct and ... |
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Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/evaluation-of-digital-health-interventions This course focuses on data, evaluation methods and the economic evaluation of digital health interventions. This module focuses on key data considerations for digital health including data management, data visualisation and methods for evaluating digital health interventions. The key focus is on experimental and quasi-experimental design approaches that can be applied to evaluating digital health interventions and key considerations for the economic evaluation of digital health interventions. |
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Foundations of Public Health Practice (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/foundations-public-health-practice Offered by Imperial College London. |
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Foundations of Public Health Practice: Behaviour & Behaviour Change (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/behaviour-change-in-public-health The Health Protection course is the third instalment of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation from Imperial College London's Global Master of Public Health (MPH). The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge. Through short video lectures, practitioner interviews and a wide range of interactive activit |
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Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/health-protection The Health Protection course is the fourth instalment of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation from Imperial College London's Global Master of Public Health (MPH). The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge. Through short video lectures, practitioner interviews and a wide range of interactive activi |
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Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Approach (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/foundations-public-health-approach The Public Health Approach course is the first instalment of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation from Imperial College London's Global Master of Public Health (MPH). The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge. Through short video lectures, practitioner interviews and a wide range of interactive ac |
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Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-public-health-toolkit The Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit builds on public health thinking (introduced in the previous course) and introduces a variety of core public health approaches (the toolkit) to conceptualising problems, conducting analysis and bringing forward recommendations. In this course we cover health needs assessment, evaluation and public health intelligence-approaches. |
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Getting started with TensorFlow 2 (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/getting-started-with-tensor-flow2 Welcome to this course on Getting started with TensorFlow 2! In this course you will learn a complete end-to-end workflow for developing deep learning models with Tensorflow, from building, training, evaluating and predicting with models using the Sequential API, validating your models and including regularisation, implementing callbacks, and saving and loading models. You will put concepts that you learn about into practice straight away in practical, hands-on coding tutorials, which you wil |
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Global Disease Masterclass (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/gmph-global-disease-masterclass Offered by Imperial College London. |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-disease-masterclass-communicable This course is all about infectious diseases. We’ve selected four disease areas — HIV, Malaria, Emerging Infectious Diseases (Ebola and Zika), and TB — and we will go through each in turn. We’ve selected these diseases because they span a range of different types of disease and allow us to look at important issues that relevance of other diseases too. We will look at each disease in the same way: we begin by looking at the aetiology and epidemiology of the diseases. We then show how data on this |
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Global Disease Masterclass: Global Disease Distribution (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-disease-distribution The Global Diseases Masterclass is part of the full-degree Masters of Public Health that the School of Public Health. By the end of this specialisation, our aim is that students will be able to critically apply epidemiological concepts to major global diseases and be able to appraise and recommend policy options to combat them. Global Diseases Masterclass: Global Disease Distribution In this course, we will introduce students to the most important trends and pattern in health and disease on a g |
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Global Disease Masterclass: Non-communicable Diseases (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-disease-non-communicable Welcome to this course on the aetiology, epidemiology and interventions for non-communicable diseases of the Global Diseases Masterclass. We’ve selected four disease areas and will go through each in turn. The diseases we’ve chosen are: Colorectal Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), Dementia, and Diabetes. We have selected these non-communicable diseases because they span a range of different types of disease process and because of the expertise and experience that our School of Public Health |
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Global Health Challenges and Governance (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/global-health-challenges-governance Offered by Imperial College London. |
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Global Health Innovations (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/global-health-innovations Offered by Imperial College London. |
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Health Coaching Conversations (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/healthcoachingconversations Are you a healthcare practitioner or student in a healthcare field? Do you want to learn how to have more empowering conversations with your patients and support them to take control of their own health and wellbeing? Are you looking for a course to start learning these skills that also fits with your busy life? If so, this is the course for you! In this course, you will become much more familiar with some key health coaching principles and skills, and will be equipped to start applying these in |
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Health Systems Development (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/health-systems-development Offered by Imperial College London. |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/health-service-delivery-and-human-resources This specialization is intended for people interested in health systems and how they function. Participants will learn about the global health systems landscape and the challenges and opportunities to achieve better health outcomes. This specialisation is divided into three courses which are offered as massive online open access courses (Courses 1-3), and a fourth course which is offered as part of the Online MPH degree (capstone). The Health Systems Development specialisation is geared toward |
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Health Systems Development: Health systems, Policy and Research (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/healthsystems-policy-research This specialization is intended for people interested in health systems and how they function. Participants will learn about the global health systems landscape and the challenges and opportunities to achieve better health outcomes. This specialisation is divided into three courses which are offered as massive online open access courses (Courses 1-3), and a fourth course which is offered as part of the Online MPH degree (capstone). The Health Systems Development specialisation is geared toward |
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Health Systems Development: Introduction to Health Systems (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-health-systems This specialization is intended for people interested in health systems and how they function. Participants will learn about the global health systems landscape and the challenges and opportunities to achieve better health outcomes. This specialisation is divided into three courses which are offered as massive online open access courses (Courses 1-3), and a fourth course which is offered as part of the Online MPH degree (capstone). The Health Systems Development specialisation is geared toward |
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Healthcare Entrepreneurship: Taking Ideas to Market (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/ghi-healthcare-entrepreneurship-taking-ideas-to-market This course delves into intellectual property (IP) with an introduction into the innovation landscape within the UK and how that compares with other settings. You'll focus on how intellectual property applies to frugal innovations, compulsory licensing, and when and how to apply for intellectual property. This course teaches you about how innovators can secure funding by exploring the types of funding available, the types of organisations involved, as well as the challenges that surround funding |
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Healthcare Innovation: What Does Success Look Like and How to Achieve It? (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/ghi-healthcare-innovation-what-success-look-like-how-to-achieve This course focuses on the factors involved in the adoption of innovation - features, organizations, country of origin, cognitive, normative and affective aspects, change agents. Using real-world health innovations, you'll assess what impacts their scaleability to new contexts, how organizational and human characteristics affect adoption, to what extent diffusion of an innovation is influenced by unconscious bias. You'll also delve into the process of adopting an innovation within a clinical set |
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Immunology: Adaptive Immune System (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/immunology-adaptive-immune-system In this course, you will learn about the role of immune responses of the adaptive (acquired) immune system which provides specialised immunity against pathogens. Guided by our researchers in the Department of Immunity and Inflammation, we will take a closer look at the lymphocyte subsets and mechanisms involved in this delayed finely tuned response occurring days to weeks after the initial exposure to microbial antigens. We will also focus on the versatile cellular components which can dis |
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Immunology: Autoimmunity, Allergy, and Transplants (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/immunology-autoimmunity-allergy-and-transplants In this course, you will explore the mechanisms and immune responses involved in autoimmune diseases and in hyper-responsive phenomena, such as asthma. You will examine in detail the potential causes and factors behind an overactive immune system and the disorders that might ensue if the response is not adequately controlled. you will also analyse the effects of overactive immune response in transplant rejection. |
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Immunology: Immune Failures and Cancer Immunology (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/immunology-immune-failures-and-cancer-immunology Our immune system is a powerful network. It protects us from external threats, such as harmful substances and pathogenic agents, as well as cellular changes which could lead to diseases. Complications emerge when our natural defences do not function properly, which can result in immune disorders. These can take the form of less severe issues such as insect allergy. Others are more harmful, such as auto aggressive immune reactions, that lead to localised or systemic tissue damage. In this cour |
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Immunology: Immune System and Infectious Diseases (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/immunology-immune-system-and-infectious-diseases The constant struggle between pathogens and the human immune system has been posing a significant threat to our health for thousands of years. Infectious diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide. These are typically caused by bacteria (intra- and extracellular), viruses, fungi, parasites (worms/helminths) and prions. Under normal circumstance, the immune response orchestrates a robust protection against these pathogens using both molecular and cellular mechanisms. This usually leads |
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Immunology: Innate Immune System (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/immunology-innate-immune-system Our immune system relies on an innate and an adaptive arm that communicate and collaborate to provide us with an optimal response against pathogens. This course focuses on our innate immunity which provides us our first, fast and inherited defence against infections. In this course, you will take a closer look at the mechanisms and cellular components involved in this swift response that occurs within minutes of exposure to a threat. Throughout the course, and guided by our active researchers, |
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Immunology: The Immune System and its Failures (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/immunology-the-immune-system-and-its-failures Offered by Imperial College London. Enhance your knowledge in immunology. The specialisation will provide you with an insight into the ... |
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Infectious Disease Modelling (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/infectious-disease-modelling Offered by Imperial College London. |
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Interventions and Calibration (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/interventions-and-calibration This course covers approaches for modelling treatment of infectious disease, as well as for modelling vaccination. Building on the SIR model, you will learn how to incorporate additional compartments to represent the effects of interventions, such the effect of vaccination in reducing susceptibility. You will learn about ‘leaky’ vaccines and how to model them, as well as different types of vaccine and treatment effects. It is important to consider basic relationships between models and data, so, |
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Introduction to Android graphics (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/intro-android-graphics This course will bring you up to speed with the fundamentals of 2D graphics and 3D graphics in Android. This course provides the ideal primer for more advanced courses and applications, for example, OpenGL, as well as Virtual Reality in Android. This course is unique because it covers the key concepts and theory of 2D and 3D graphics while also showing you how to implement these in Android practically. This provides a solid understanding and grasp of the subject matter which will be applicab |
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Introduction to Creative Thinking: Tools for Success (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-creative-thinking Creativity concerns the development of new ideas. Throughout human history, the application of ideas has led to transformations of our daily lives and society. Modern business activity thrives on recently developed ideas, and it is through creativity that we address both challenges and opportunities. In this module, we will help you develop your implicit understanding and skills in creativity. You will be introduced to a series of creativity tools that can be used to augment the ideas you might |
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Introduction to Participatory Approaches in Public Health (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-participatory-approaches-public-health This course will introduce you to participatory approaches to public health. You will learn about the history of participatory health research and why it is essential to solving contemporary public health challenges. The course will help you to understand the social and cultural context of public health, before introducing you to essential concepts for working with communities: knowledge and power. Finally, you will engage with critical analyses of participatory approaches, to help you to determ |
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Introduction to Quality Improvement in Healthcare (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/intro-quality-improvement-healthcare-1 This course introduces you to the concepts, theories and application of Quality Improvement (QI) in healthcare from a global perspective. You will hear from patients, clinicians and academics what quality improvement means to them, and how they work together to deliver change. Studying the challenges, they faced and strategies they utilised to overcome those challenges, you will learn to apply and critique core QI methods, from experts in the field. By the end of this module you will be able to |
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Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-statistics-data-analysis-public-health Welcome to Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health! This course will teach you the core building blocks of statistical analysis - types of variables, common distributions, hypothesis testing - but, more than that, it will enable you to take a data set you've never seen before, describe its keys features, get to know its strengths and quirks, run some vital basic analyses and then formulate and test hypotheses based on means and proportions. You'll then have a solid grounding |
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Linear Regression in R for Public Health (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/linear-regression-r-public-health Welcome to Linear Regression in R for Public Health! Public Health has been defined as “the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society”. Knowing what causes disease and what makes it worse are clearly vital parts of this. This requires the development of statistical models that describe how patient and environmental factors affect our chances of getting ill. This course will show you how to create such models from scratch |
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Logistic Regression in R for Public Health (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/logistic-regression-r-public-health Welcome to Logistic Regression in R for Public Health! Why logistic regression for public health rather than just logistic regression? Well, there are some particular considerations for every data set, and public health data sets have particular features that need special attention. In a word, they're messy. Like the others in the series, this is a hands-on course, giving you plenty of practice with R on real-life, messy data, with predicting who has diabetes from a set of patient characterist |
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Mathematics for Machine Learning (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mathematics-machine-learning Offered by Imperial College London. Mathematics for Machine Learning. Learn about the prerequisite mathematics for applications in data ... |
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Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/linear-algebra-machine-learning In this course on Linear Algebra we look at what linear algebra is and how it relates to vectors and matrices. Then we look through what vectors and matrices are and how to work with them, including the knotty problem of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and how to use these to solve problems. Finally we look at how to use these to do fun things with datasets - like how to rotate images of faces and how to extract eigenvectors to look at how the Pagerank algorithm works. Since we're aiming at data- |