Stanford OpenEdx Courses

Writing in the Sciences

17 reviews

This course teaches scientists to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exercises.

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 8 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Adventures in Writing

14 reviews

Welcome to Adventures in Writing, a series of graphic-novel style learning modules designed to help you learn more about and practice a range of effective written communication skills.

• Stanford OpenEdx
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Computer Networking

13 reviews

This is an introductory course on computer networking, specifically the Internet. It focuses on explaining how the Internet works, ranging from how bits are modulated on wires and in wireless to application-level protocols like BitTorrent and HTTP. It al…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 11 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

International Women's Health & Human Rights

4 reviews

This course provides an overview of women's health and human rights, beginning in infancy and childhood, then moving through adolescence, reproductive years and aging. We consider economic, social, political and human rights factors, and the challenges w…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 8 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Ten Premodern Poems by Women

4 reviews

In this course, we will read ten significant premodern poems by women. We have chosen each poem to give you a sense of its structure as a poem and its importance as a form in its time. This course also reveals the roots each poem has in history, in slave…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 1-3 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Digging Deeper: Making Manuscripts

2 reviews

Digging Deeper: Making Manuscripts introduces you to the study of early text technologies, focusing principally on the medieval book, but covering other textual objects, too, such as scrolls and diplomata.

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 6 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Advanced MATLAB for Scientific Computing

2 reviews

The course is aimed for participants working or conducting research in scientific computing. Covered topics in scientific computing will include numerical linear algebra, numerical optimization, ODEs, and PDEs. Relevant applications areas include machine…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 8 hours a week, 9 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

You’ve Called 911, Now What? A Simplified, Evidence-Based Approach to Six Life-Threatening Office Emergencies

2 reviews

This CME activity will present a practical approach to several high-risk emergency conditions that can present to office-based practices. The course instructors will describe the immediate recognition and management of these complex patients through a di…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Solar: Solar Cells, Fuel Cells and Batteries

2 reviews

This course focuses on the operating principles and applications of emerging technological solutions to the energy demands of the world. We will begin with discussing the scale of global energy usage and requirements for possible solutions. Basic physics…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 13 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Chemical Engineering

2 reviews

Overview of chemical engineering through discussion and engineering analysis of physical and chemical processes. Topics: overall staged separations, material and energy balances, concepts of rate processes, energy and mass transport, and kinetics of chem…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• Finished
• Free Online Course

OpenKnowledge: Changing the global course of learning

1 review

Open source, open science, open data, open access, open education, open learning -- this free, online course provides an introduction to the important concept of openness from a variety of perspectives, including education, publishing, librarianship, eco…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 1-8 hours a week, 14 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Patient Engagement Design

1 review

Engage and Empower Me: Patient Engagement Design is an online course brought to you by the Stanford AIM Lab and Medicine X at Stanford University. Our goal is to educate you about participatory medicine and empower you to create a more inclusive, collab…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 9 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Medical Education in the New Millennium

1 review

This interdisciplinary course features talks from thought leaders and innovators from medical education, instructional design, cognitive science, online learning, and emerging technology. Over the course of eleven weeks, we'll consider how to build educa…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 3-4 hours a week, 11 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Creating Effective Online and Blended Courses

1 review

Creating Effective Online and Blended Courses was produced by the Open Learning Initiative This link opens in a new tab at Stanford University with contributions from the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning This link opens in a new tab at Stanford Uni…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Your Body in the World: Adapting to Your Next Big Adventure

1 review

This course may be different from other courses you may have taken online. Our intention is to create more than just a class conveying information; we want to create an educational experience. You will be engaged in stories about physiology from across t…

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 9 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course