NovoEd Courses

Technology Entrepreneurship

21 reviews

This course introduces the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship, pioneered in Silicon Valley and now spreading across the world. You will learn the process technology entrepreneurs use to start companies. It involves taking a technology idea and f…

• NovoEd
• 10 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Technology Entrepreneurship Part 2

12 reviews

This is the second half of a course that introduces the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship, pioneered in Silicon Valley and now spreading across the world. Last time, nearly 40,000 students from around the world participated and worked in teams…

• NovoEd
• 5 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Finance

7 reviews

We live in an uncertain world. Every day, we need to make decisions about alternatives whose consequences cannot be predicted with certainty. Here are a few examples: You have saved 2000 dollars from your summer internship. Should you put it under your…

• NovoEd
• 5 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Design Thinking Action Lab

6 reviews

All humans are born as creative beings, but as we grow up, school and work offer few opportunities to cultivate and apply our creativity. At Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design - known as the d.school - students of all disciplines learn the des…

• NovoEd
• 1-5 hours a week, 5 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

A Crash Course on Creativity

6 reviews

n this course, Tina Seelig reveals a set of tools and conditions that we each control - our Innovation Engine - that allows us to increase our own creativity and that of our teams and organizations. She shows that just as the scientific method demystifie…

• NovoEd
• 7 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Designing A New Learning Environment

5 reviews

What constitutes learning in the 21st century? Should reading, watching, memorizing facts, and then taking exams be the only way to learn? Or could technology (used effectively) make learning more interactive, collaborative, and constructive? Could learn…

• NovoEd
• 4 hours a week, 9 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship

3 reviews

Accelerate your startup through hands-on guidance from a board of peers and experts custom-built for your venture. Learn how the most successful startups seek guidance from the smartest people in their industry to avoid common startup traps. Immediately…

• NovoEd
• 9 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Sustainable Product Development

3 reviews

This course focuses on strategies and techniques for development of sustainable products and manufacturing processes. Using case studies, we will examine strategic decisions and best practices in new product and process development when environmental and…

• NovoEd
• 6 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Reading to Learn in Science

2 reviews

Why do so many students struggle to read and comprehend scientific texts? Most science teachers have witnessed it at least once: a student reads from a textbook or article, proceeding calmly and clearly from sentence to sentence, only to reach the period…

• NovoEd
• 8 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Creativity: Music to My Ears

2 reviews

With the power to cross borders and languages, music serves as a compelling tool for unlocking creative potential. Creativity: Music to My Ears is a six week course designed to explore several factors that stimulate creativity in individuals, teams, and…

• NovoEd
• 1-5 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Integrating English Language Development and Content Area Learning: A Conversation-Based Approach

1 review

This course is for teachers and others who work with English learners and other linguistically and culturally diverse students. The main focus of the course is helping teachers to use conversations to develop students' language, literacy, and thinking sk…

• NovoEd
• 20 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Using Communication-Focused Activities in Designated English as a New Language Lessons (New York)

1 review

The New York Common Core contains many elements requiring active use of language, as students are expected to engage in explanation and reasoning as they go about their learning. This poses a challenge for all students, but especially for ELLs who come t…

• NovoEd
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Mobile Health Without Borders

1 review

The course will function like a conference, but it takes place over three months rather than two days, and encourages the transformation from passive audience observer to active participant and thought leader. The themes to be addressed are: Global Hea…

• NovoEd
• 5 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Designing for Deeper Learning: How to Develop Performance Tasks for the Common Core

1 review

Given their emphasis on complex and sophisticated disciplinary skills and understandings, the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards require ways of assessing that go beyond routine multiple-choice tests. Whether students are l…

• NovoEd
• 9 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Graph Partitioning and Expanders

This research-oriented graduate course focuses study algorithms for graph partitioning and clustering, constructions of expander graphs, and analysis of random walks. These are three topics that build on the same mathematical background and that have sev…

• NovoEd
• 8 hours a week, 15 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course