Posted on March 20, 2023
By Shawn Douglas
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This is a Doane University-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced eight-week course is designed to help learners "[g]ain an understanding of how healthcare informatics is deployed in diverse healthcare systems around the world." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $299. (The course is also part of a Healthcare Administration MicroMasters program.) The course requires on average five to ten hours a week of effort. The course began in March 2023, with the free audit track expiring on May 15, 2023. The course ends June 28.
Posted on March 20, 2023
By LabLynx
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This is an IsraelX-created course that is released on the edX platform. The introductory eight-week course is designed to help learners "to bridge the current gaps in health informatics education and introduce the major aspects of the field to novice and advanced clinical and technical audiences." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion, via a Verified track from IsrealX, is available afterwards for $49 USD. The course stated in March 2023, with the free audit track ending April 17.
Posted on March 20, 2023
By LabLynx
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This is a Rochester Institute of Technology-created course that is released on the edX platform. The introductory eight-week course is designed to help learners "learn about the general information security risk management framework and its practices and how to identify and model information security risks and apply both qualitative and quantitative risk assessment methods." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion, via a Verified track from RIT, is available for $399 USD. The class starts March 21, 2023 and runs until May 16, when the free audit track expires.
Posted on February 22, 2023
By Shawn Douglas
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This is a Columbia University-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced five-week course is designed to help learners "develop a basic understanding of the principles of machine learning and derive practical solutions using predictive analytics." The course is free to take, requiring about seven to 10 hours per week of effort over five weeks. A Verified Certificate can be added for $99. The course started in February 2023 and ends on April 30. The free audit track expires on March 29.
Posted on February 22, 2023
By LabLynx
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This is a University of Washington-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced six-week course is designed to help learners to better understand the "type of characteristics and skills needed for cybersecurity jobs and to provide a realistic outlook on what they really need to add to their 'toolkits'—a set of skills that is constantly evolving, not all technical, but fundamentally rooted in problem-solving." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $199. The course requires on average two to five hours a week of effort. This course runs through May 31, 2023. The free audit track expires on April 5.
Posted on February 22, 2023
By LabLynx
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This is a Rochester Institute of Technology-created course that is released on the edX platform. The introductory eight-week course is designed to help learners "learn cybersecurity fundamentals, including how to detect threats, protect systems and networks, and anticipate potential cyber attacks." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion from RIT is available afterwards for $399 USD. A session will start March 21 and end May 16. The free audit track also ends on May 16.
Posted on February 10, 2023
By LabLynx
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This is a Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) course that is released on the edX platform. The eight-week course is designed for students to learn how "to extract, analyze, and interpret data from patient health records, insurance claims, financial records, and more to tell a compelling and actionable story using health care data analytics." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $249. The course requires on average eight to 10 hours a week of effort. The class begins on January 23, 2023 and will run until June 5, 2023. The free Audit track will close on April 19. Another session will begin on July 17 and run until December 18.
Posted on February 10, 2023
By LabLynx
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This is an MIT-created course that is released on the edX platform. The 16-week course is designed to help learners combine the "foundational and practical skills" of data science "with domain knowledge to ask and answer questions using real data." The course is free to take and is a part of the university's MicroMaster's program. A verified certificate of completion is available afterwards for $300 USD. A session started January 24 and ends on May 19, 2023. The free audit track expires May 16.
Posted on February 10, 2023
By LabLynx
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This is a University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC)-created course that is released on the edX platform. The eight- to 10-week course is designed to help learners "[u]nderstand the technology, best practices, and economics of cloud computing, and the rewards and risks of this rush to the cloud." The course is free to take and is a part of the university's MicroMaster's program. A verified certificate of completion is available afterwards for $299 USD. A session started January 9 and ends March 6. The free audit track also ends on March 6.
Posted on January 9, 2023
By LabLynx
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This is an advanced University of Adelaide-created course that is released on the edX platform, and is part of a university MicroMasters Program. The scheduled 10-week course is designed to help learners to better "apply computational thinking in data science" using tools such as "mathematical representations, probabilistic and statistical models, dimension reduction and Bayesian models." The course is free; a certificate of completion costs $249. The course requires on average eight to 10 hours a week of effort. Access to the class is on-demand.
Posted on January 9, 2023
By Shawn Douglas
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This is a Doane University-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced three-week course is designed to help learners to better understand "health informatics solutions that answer population health challenges." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $149. The course requires on average five to ten hours a week of effort. Additionally, "[t]his course is part of the Certified Lifestyle Medicine Executive MicroMasters program which consists of 9 courses and a capstone exam." (Note: The free audit track ends October 1, 2022.) Access to the class started in September 2022 and ends December 31, with the free audit track closing October 1, 2022.
Posted on January 9, 2023
By LabLynx
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This is a UC San Diego course that is released on the edX platform. The 10-week course "that will introduce you to a collection of powerful, open-source, tools needed to analyze data and to conduct data science." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $350. (Note that the free Audit track expires November 19, 2022.) The course requires on average eight to 10 hours a week of effort. Access to the class began September 2022 and ends November 22, with the free audit track closing November 19, 2022. Another session will begin on December 6.
Posted on November 14, 2022
By Shawn Douglas
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This is a University of Adelaide course that is released on the edX platform. The ten-week course is designed for students to "learn key technologies and techniques, including R and Apache Spark, to analyze large-scale data sets to uncover valuable business information." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $199. This course is also part of Adelaide's Big Data MicroMasters program. The course requires on average eight to ten hours a week of effort. Access to the class began in the fall of 2022, and the free audit track is open until January 23, 2023.
Posted on November 14, 2022
By Shawn Douglas
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This is a University of Adelaide course that is released on the edX platform. The ten-week course is designed to provide greater "understanding of the various applications of big data methods in industry and research." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $199. This course is also part of Adelaide's Big Data MicroMasters program. The course requires on average eight to ten hours a week of effort. Access to the class began in the fall of 2022, and the free audit track is available until January 23, 2023.
Posted on October 4, 2022
By Shawn Douglas
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The self-paced six-week course is designed to help learners "gain an overview of the cybersecurity landscape as well as national (USA) and international perspectives on the field." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $199. The course requires on average two to five hours a week of effort. It began in September, and the free audit track ends November 15.
Posted on October 4, 2022
By LabLynx
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This is a University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC)-created course that is released on the edX platform. The eight-week course is designed to help learners "[l]earn how to build a security strategy that keeps data safe and mitigates risk" in the cloud. The course is free to take and is a part of the university's MicroMaster's program. A verified certificate of completion is available afterwards for $299 USD. A session will start November 1 and end December 27.
Posted on October 4, 2022
By LabLynx
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This is a Curtin University course that is released on the edX platform. The five-week course is designed for students to "learn how to apply software solutions for different systems and big data needs to your IoT designs." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $149. This course is also part of Curtin's Internet of Things MicroMasters program. The course requires on average four to six hours a week of effort. Access to the class began in September and ends December 4. The free audit track ends November 8.
Posted on September 10, 2022
By LabLynx
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This is a New York University course that is released on the edX platform. The five-week course is designed as "a self-paced course that provides an introduction to information security and cybersecurity." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $166. (Note that the free Audit track expires October 15, 2022.) The course requires on average eight to 10 hours a week of effort. Access to the class started in September 2022.
Posted on July 25, 2022
By LabLynx
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This is an IBM-created course that is released on the edX platform. The introductory six-week course will have you "meet some big data science practitioners and we will get an overview of what data science is today." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion, via a Verified track from IBM, is available afterwards for $99 USD. (Note that the Audit track expires September 5, 2022.)
Posted on June 7, 2022
By LabLynx
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This is an IBM-created course that is released on the edX platform. The four-week course is designed to help learners "Build the background needed to understand key cybersecurity compliance and industry standards." The course is free to take and requires three to four hours of focus per week. A verified certificate of completion from IBM is available afterwards for $149 USD. The session is open as of May 7, with eligibility for the verified track closing July 5.