Aboriginal Worldviews and Education (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/aboriginal-education

Intended for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal learners, this course will explore indigenous ways of knowing and how they can benefit all students. Topics include historical, social, and political issues in Aboriginal education; terminology; cultural, spiritual and philosophical themes in Aboriginal worldviews; and how Aboriginal worldviews can inform professional programs and practices, including but not limited to the field of education.

App Design and Development for iOS (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ios-app-design-development

In App Design and Development for iOS, the third course of the iOS App Development with Swift specialization, you will be developing foundational programming skills to support graphical element presentation and data manipulation from basic functions through to advanced processing. You will continue to build your skill set to use and apply core graphics, touch handling and gestures, animations and transitions, alerts and actions as well as advanced algorithms, threading and more. By the end of th

Bioinformatic Methods I (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/bioinformatics-methods-1

Large-scale biology projects such as the sequencing of the human genome and gene expression surveys using RNA-seq, microarrays and other technologies have created a wealth of data for biologists. However, the challenge facing scientists is analyzing and even accessing these data to extract useful information pertaining to the system being studied. This course focuses on employing existing bioinformatic resources – mainly web-based programs and databases – to access the wealth of data to answer q

Bioinformatic Methods II (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/bioinformatics-methods-2

Large-scale biology projects such as the sequencing of the human genome and gene expression surveys using RNA-seq, microarrays and other technologies have created a wealth of data for biologists. However, the challenge facing scientists is analyzing and even accessing these data to extract useful information pertaining to the system being studied. This course focuses on employing existing bioinformatic resources – mainly web-based programs and databases – to access the wealth of data to answer q

Build Your Own iOS App (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-app

In the Build Your Own iOS App capstone you will expand your repertoire of additional features and more advanced functions that may be implemented within the iOS environment. You will refine your development skill set and will apply your accumulated skills over the entire specialization series in an applied application development capstone project. This particular course is project based and structured around you building a high quality app as a capstone to the specialization. Currently this cou

Communication Strategies for a Virtual Age (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/communication-strategies-virtual-age

Communication has changed! The traditional rules for speaking and presenting, meeting coordination, influencing people, negotiating and selling ideas no longer apply in a world of skype, messenger, video and teleconference. This course will act as an overview on several concepts each of which could be a course of their own and our goal is to give you tools that you can practice and perfect on your own. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Apply communication principles and techni

Gender Analytics for Innovation (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/gender-analytics-innovation

Gender Analytics is a way to analyze your products, services, processes and policies with a gender lens to uncover hidden opportunities for innovation and effectiveness. We'll answer questions such as: Why are women 47% more likely than men to be injured when they get in a car accident? Why do financial products fail to meet women’s needs across their life cycles? Why will automation and AI be more likely to impact women than men? Why are gender-neutral policies are not necessarily gender-equa

Gender Analytics: Gender Equity through Inclusive Design (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/gender-analytics

Offered by University of Toronto. Become an Expert in Gender-Based Analysis. Apply inclusive analytic techniques and human-centred design to ...

GIS Data Acquisition and Map Design (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/gis-data-acquisition-map-design

In this course, you will learn how to find GIS data for your own projects, and how to create a well-designed map that effectively communicates your message. The first section focuses on the basic building blocks of GIS data, so that you know what types of GIS files exist, and the implications of choosing one type over another. Next, we'll discuss metadata (which is information about a data set) so you know how to evaluate a data set before you decide to use it, as well as preparing data by mergi

GIS, Mapping, and Spatial Analysis (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/gis-mapping-spatial-analysis

Offered by University of Toronto. Launch your career in mapping and GIS!. Learn the concepts, tools, and techniques to make great maps that ...

GIS, Mapping, and Spatial Analysis Capstone (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/gis-mapping-spatial-analysis-capstone

In this capstone course, you will apply everything you have learned by designing and then completing your own GIS project. You will plan out your project by writing a brief proposal that explains what you plan to do and why. You will then find data for a topic and location of your choice, and perform analysis and create maps that allow you to try out different tools and data sets. The results of your work will be assembled into an Esri story map, which is a web site with maps, images, text, and

Human-Centered Design for Inclusive Innovation (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/gender-analytics-human-centered-design

This course introduces the principles and practices of human-centered design (also sometimes called “design thinking”) which are essential for developing innovative and inclusive products, services, processes and policies. You will learn by doing, experiencing the design process through exercises and a mini-bootcamp. In this course, you will learn about and experience key human-centered design practices: empathize, reframe, ideate, prototype and test. You will learn why human-centered design is

Inclusive Analytic Techniques (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/gender-analytics-inclusive-analytics

Many policies, products, services or processes that we think of as gender-neutral actually have gendered outcomes. Everything from snow plowing to car safety to investment advising to infrastructure investment has impacts that differ by gender. These outcomes can be even more biased if we look at important intersections with race, indigeneity, differences in ability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other identities. The question is, what can you do to change this? And, how can you avoid the r

Introduction to GIS Mapping (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-gis-mapping

Get started learning about the fascinating and useful world of geographic information systems (GIS)! In this first course of the specialization GIS, Mapping, and Spatial Analysis, you'll learn about what a GIS is, how to get started with the software yourself, how things we find in the real world can be represented on a map, how we record locations using coordinates, and how we can make a two-dimensional map from a three-dimensional Earth. In the course project, you will create your own GIS data

Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/intro-self-driving-cars

Welcome to Introduction to Self-Driving Cars, the first course in University of Toronto’s Self-Driving Cars Specialization. This course will introduce you to the terminology, design considerations and safety assessment of self-driving cars. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand commonly used hardware used for self-driving cars - Identify the main components of the self-driving software stack - Program vehicle modelling and control - Analyze the safety frameworks and

Introduction To Swift Programming (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/swift-programming

Introduction to Swift Programming is the first course in a four part specialization series that will provide you with the tools and skills necessary to develop an iOS App from scratch. By the end of this first course you will be able to demonstrate intermediate application of programming in Swift, the powerful new programming language for iOS. Guided by best practices you will become proficient with syntax, object oriented principles, memory management, functional concepts and more in programmin

iOS App Development Basics (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ios-app-development-basics

iOS App Development Basics, the second course in the iOS App Development with Swift specialization, expands your programming skills and applies them to authentic app development projects. The topics covered in this course include Xcode basics, Core iOS and Cocoa Touch frameworks, simple user interface creation, MVC Architecture and much more. With a focus on using Apple’s components to access sensors like camera, microphone and GPS, by the end of this course you will be able to create a basic A

iOS App Development with Swift (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/app-development

Offered by University of Toronto. Launch Your Career in iOS. Start building iOS apps in Swift in just four courses.

Knowledge and Skills for Dementia Care: the SSLD Approach (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/dementia-healthcare

This course is designed and produced by Professor Ka Tat Tsang of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in collaboration with the Institute for Life Course and Aging at the University of Toronto. This course aims to inform learners about dementia and dementia care from an SSLD perspective, including, community care, in-home support, and long-term care. This course will cover the continuum of senior services and support across different settings, including, private caregiving, community se

Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/program-code

Not all programs are created equal.  In this course, we'll focus on writing quality code that runs correctly and efficiently.  We'll design, code and validate our programs and learn how to compare programs that are addressing the same task.

Learn to Program: The Fundamentals (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-to-program

Behind every mouse click and touch-screen tap, there is a computer program that makes things happen. This course introduces the fundamental building blocks of programming and teaches you how to write fun and useful programs using the Python language.

Managing Your Health: The Role of Physical Therapy and Exercise (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/physical-therapy-exercise

Managing Your Health: The Role of Physical Therapy and Exercise will introduce learners to the concepts and benefits of physical therapy and exercise. Over six weeks learners will explore: Why physical activity and exercise are important, Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease, Exercise and Osteoporosis, Exercise and Cancer, Common Sports Injuries, Exercise and Arthritis

Mental Health and Resilience for Healthcare Workers (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/health-resilience-healthcare-workers

This course will help institutions and individuals better manage the mental health challenges of being a healthcare worker. Healthcare providers such as the University Health Network (UHN) address the mental health needs of their staff through several initiatives intended to help build resilience and to provide respite from the demands of their work. This was critical during the pandemic but, of course, healthcare workers encounter high levels of stress even without a pandemic. The primary pur

Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During COVID-19 (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/manage-health-covid-19

Never in the history of humanity have so many people been feeling intense anxiety related to COVID-19 and the world it will leave in its wake. The intent of this course is to give you a deeper understanding of the anxiety reaction as it relates to various aspects of our current life, ranging from our consumption of news to the way we talk to our children about this. I will also give you clear strategies for managing and, in fact, turning off the anxiety response at least for short periods. My

Motion Planning for Self-Driving Cars (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/motion-planning-self-driving-cars

Welcome to Motion Planning for Self-Driving Cars, the fourth course in University of Toronto’s Self-Driving Cars Specialization. This course will introduce you to the main planning tasks in autonomous driving, including mission planning, behavior planning and local planning. By the end of this course, you will be able to find the shortest path over a graph or road network using Dijkstra's and the A* algorithm, use finite state machines to select safe behaviors to execute, and design optimal,

Plant Bioinformatic Methods (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/plant-bioinformatic-methods

Offered by University of Toronto.

Plant Bioinformatics (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/plant-bioinformatics

The past 15 years have been exciting ones in plant biology. Hundreds of plant genomes have been sequenced, RNA-seq has enabled transcriptome-wide expression profiling, and a proliferation of "-seq"-based methods has permitted protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions to be determined cheaply and in a high-throughput manner. These data sets in turn allow us to generate hypotheses at the click of a mouse. For instance, knowing where and when a gene is expressed can help us narrow down the pheno

Plant Bioinformatics Capstone (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/plant-bioinformatics-capstone

The past 15 years have been exciting ones in plant biology. Hundreds of plant genomes have been sequenced, RNA-seq has enabled transcriptome-wide expression profiling, and a proliferation of "-seq"-based methods has permitted protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions to be determined cheaply and in a high-throughput manner. These data sets in turn allow us to generate hypotheses at the click of a mouse or tap of a finger. In Plant Bioinformatics on Coursera.org, we covered 33 plant-specific

Self-Driving Cars (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/self-driving-cars

Offered by University of Toronto. Launch Your Career in Self-Driving Cars. Be at the forefront of the autonomous driving industry.

Spatial Analysis and Satellite Imagery in a GIS (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/spatial-analysis-satellite-imagery-in-a-gis

In this course, you will learn how to analyze map data using different data types and methods to answer geographic questions. First, you will learn how to filter a data set using different types of queries to find just the data you need to answer a particular question. Then, we will discuss simple yet powerful analysis methods that use vector data to find spatial relationships within and between data sets. In this section, you will also learn about how to use ModelBuilder, a simple but powerful

State Estimation and Localization for Self-Driving Cars (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/state-estimation-localization-self-driving-cars

Welcome to State Estimation and Localization for Self-Driving Cars, the second course in University of Toronto’s Self-Driving Cars Specialization. We recommend you take the first course in the Specialization prior to taking this course. This course will introduce you to the different sensors and how we can use them for state estimation and localization in a self-driving car. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand the key methods for parameter and state estimation used for

The 360º Corporation: Tools for Achieving Corporate Purpose (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-360-corporation

If you’ve heard the terms stakeholder capitalism, or sustainability, or ESG, corporate social responsibility, CSR, conscious capitalism, sustainable development goals, shared value, corporate citizenship, or purpose-driven company but don’t know exactly what they mean—or don’t know how to make these ideas come to life—then this course is for you. Every business model and every operating decision has stakeholder trade-offs embedded in it. Profits to the bottom line are not always compatible wit

The Arts and Science of Relationships: Understanding Human Needs (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/human-needs

This course provides an introduction to: 1. Basic concepts of The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development System (SSLD), their relevance for every day relationships and provide advanced concepts for participants who work in fields of social work and health care . 2. Basic practice principles and methods of SSLD, illustrated by relationship management case studies. 3. The SSLD framework for relationship management assessment; N3C (needs, circumstances, characteristics, capacity) and probl

The City and You: Find Your Best Place (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/city-and-you-find-best-place

Welcome to The City and You: Find Your Best Place. I'm excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the other learners in our community. This free course will provide the knowledge and the tools needed to understand what cities do, why they matter, the forces shaping the greatest wave of urbanization in history, and how to pick the right place for you. The course will also help you develop critical thinking skills. We'll accomplish this by providing evidence of th

The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/mental-health

Learn how social factors promote mental health, influence the onset and course of mental illness, and affect how mental illnesses are diagnosed and treated. This course explores how our understanding of mental health and illness has been influenced by social attitudes and social developments in North America and around the world. The course begins by situating our contemporary mental health practices in historical context, then looks at different aspects of mental health, mental illness and men

Transformational Leadership for Inclusive Innovation (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/gender-analytics-transformational-leadership

Gender Analytics underpins inclusive innovation, and inclusive innovation will require organizational transformation. The missing link between insights and actions is change leadership. How can you get people to collaborate? How can you overcome resistance to change? How can you embed intersectional, gender-based insights in everything an organization does? In this course, you will learn to be an inspiring and effective change agent by developing a toolbox of leadership skills for building and

Understanding and Managing the Stresses of Police Work (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/manage-stress-police

Policing has always been psychological challenging. On any given shift police officers may encounter a range of psychological challenges including domestic violence, interacting with people experiencing mental health issues, violent crime, even attending the aftermath of horrible accidents. The long exhausting shifts can also result in stressful person interactions within one’s personal life. The presence of COVID and political issues related to instances of over-policing have increased these

Visual Perception for Self-Driving Cars (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/visual-perception-self-driving-cars

Welcome to Visual Perception for Self-Driving Cars, the third course in University of Toronto’s Self-Driving Cars Specialization. This course will introduce you to the main perception tasks in autonomous driving, static and dynamic object detection, and will survey common computer vision methods for robotic perception. By the end of this course, you will be able to work with the pinhole camera model, perform intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration, detect, describe and match image features