Special Abilities
My special abilities include the courses that I have earned a statement of accomplishment for on Coursera and edX.
What is Coursera ? Well, it is an educational technology company offering massive open online courses (MOOCs) founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University. Coursera works with universities to make some of their courses available online, and offers courses in engineering, humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business, computer science, and other areas.
It started in 2012 working with Stanford University, Princeton, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania. The current total number of partners is 107. In late October 2013, Coursera teamed up with the US State Department to create learning hubs all over the world. (source: Wikipedia)
- Social Network Analysis - November 23, 2012
This interdisciplinary course uses social network analysis to understand how networks form, how they are structured, and how this structure influences processes occurring over networks.
Lada Adamic, Associate Professor, School of Information, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
Gamification - May 19, 2013
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of gamification, including principles of motivational psychology and game design, and teaches how to apply them effectively in business and other settings.
Kevin Werbach, Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Social Psychology - October 16, 2013
This course offers an introduction to classic and contemporary research in social psychology, including studies on persuasion, obedience, conformity, group behavior, prejudice, interpersonal relationships, helping, conflict resolution, and life satisfaction.
Scott Plous, Professor, Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University
- Network Analysis in Systems Biology - December 3, 2013
An introduction to network analysis and statistical methods used in contemporary Systems Biology and Systems Pharmacology research. Complex systems, molecular and cell biology, and crowdsourcing
tasks are also introduced.
Avi Ma'ayan, Professor, Icahn Scool of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Creative, Serious and Playful Science of Android Apps - February 28, 2014
This course is a novice-friendly introduction to computer science and programming Android apps for smartphones and tablets. This course uses the programming tools that Android software developers use and build a complete and useful app during this course.
Lawrence Angrave, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems - April 30, 2014
This advanced course covers the fundamental programming principles, tools and application programming interfaces used to develop handheld applications using the Android Platform.
Adam Porter, Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland
Introduction to Computational Arts: Processing - April 8, 2014
This course introduces the fundamentals of programming in Processing, and provides an accessible introduction to combining arts and computing. Students learn to visualize, design, and create generative art with Processing.
Margaret Schedel, Assistant Professor of Music, and Timothy Vallier, PhD Student, Stony Brook University
Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps - August 15, 2014
This undergraduate level course will teach you how to develop interactive audio visual programs for desktop and mobile devices. Beyond the technical content, it places particular emphasis on the development of the skills needed to work on creative programming projects.
Marco Gillies, PhD, Matthew Yee-King, PhD, Mick Grierson, PhD, University of London
Big Data and Social Physics - May 23, 2014
Social physics is a big data science that encapsulates social, analytical, computer, and managerial sciences into a quantitative science of human society that can accurately predict patterns of human behavior and influence those patterns. The core of social physics is using big data to understand how ideas flow from person to person through the mechanism of social learning and how this flow of ideas ends up shaping the norms, productivity, and creative output of our companies, cities, and societies.
Alex Pentland, Professor, Sanjay Sarma, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recommendation: I suggest anyone who is curious about the way humans think and act to enroll in the Social Psychology course!
