The world is ageing – people are older and societies are facing hard realities. What are we to make our lives in this time of global ageing? In six weeks, we analyze critical questions about age and ageing around the world.
University of Pennsylvania
Start Date: May 27th 2013
Learn to identify and define various art movements, artists, and their artworks. Convey a personal appreciation for art concepts, techniques, and approaches through the creation and sharing of your own original artwork.
Start Date: May 24th 2013
This course provides a brisk, entertaining treatment of differential and integral calculus, with an emphasis on conceptual understanding and applications to the engineering, physical, and social sciences.
Start Date: May 20th 2013
This course will explore the complex challenges of allocating scarce medical resources at both the micro and macro level. Students will learn the theories behind allocation and use modern examples to explore how society makes the difficult decisions that arise when there is not enough to go around.
Start Date: May 20th 2013
This course will explore new breakthroughs in the treatment of patients during cardiac arrest and after successful resuscitation, including new approaches to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and post-arrest care.
Start Date: May 2013
This course will examine the ethical, legal and social issues raised by neuroscience.
Start Date: Apr 29th 2013
This course will teach you how to analyze and improve business processes, be it in services or in manufacturing. You will learn how to improve productivity, how to provide more choice to customers, how to reduce response times, and how to improve quality.
Start Date: Apr 29th 2013
Combine fundamental concepts with hands-on design challenges to become a better designer.
Start Date: Apr 8th 2013
Learn how markets work, what they accomplish well and what their limitations are.
Start Date: Apr 1st 2013
Gamification is the application of game elements and digital game design techniques to non-game problems, such as business and social impact challenges. This course will teach you the mechanisms of gamification, why it has such tremendous potential, and how to use it effectively.
