University of Alberta Courses

Mountains 101

576 reviews

Mountains 101­­ is a broad and integrated overview of the mountain world. This 12-lesson course covers an interdisciplinary field of study focusing on the physical, biological, and human dimensions of mountain places in Alberta, Canada, and around the wo…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology

117 reviews

Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology is a 12-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of non-avian dinosaurs.

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 2 weeks from now (18th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds

39 reviews

Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds is a five-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the origins of birds. This course examines the anatomy, diversity, and evolution of theropod dinosaurs in relation to the origin of bird…

• Coursera
• 8 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• Tomorrow
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Object-Oriented Design

36 reviews

This course takes Java beginners to the next level by covering object-oriented analysis and design. You will discover how to create modular, flexible, and reusable software, by applying object-oriented design principles and guidelines. And, you will be a…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Sample-based Learning Methods

35 reviews

In this course, you will learn about several algorithms that can learn near optimal policies based on trial and error interaction with the environment---learning from the agent’s own experience. Learning from actual experience is striking because it requ…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles

28 reviews

Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles is a four-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the evolutionary changes that occur when air-breathing terrestrial animals return to water. This course examines the diversity, adaptations, convergence, a…

• Coursera
• 9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Tomorrow
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design Patterns

23 reviews

This course extends object-oriented analysis and design by incorporating design patterns to create interactive applications. Through a survey of established design patterns, you will gain a foundation for more complex software applications. Finally, you…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution

20 reviews

Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution is a four-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the origin of vertebrates. Students will explore the diversity of Palaeozoic lineages within a phylogenetic and evolutionary framework. This course exam…

• Coursera
• 7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Tomorrow
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Prediction and Control with Function Approximation

16 reviews

In this course, you will learn how to solve problems with large, high-dimensional, and potentially infinite state spaces. You will see that estimating value functions can be cast as a supervised learning problem---function approximation---allowing you to…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Software Architecture

12 reviews

The way that software components — subroutines, classes, functions, etc. — are arranged, and the interactions between them, is called architecture. In this course you will study the ways these architectures are represented, both in UML and other visual…

• Coursera
• 9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning

24 reviews

Reinforcement Learning is a subfield of Machine Learning, but is also a general purpose formalism for automated decision-making and AI. This course introduces you to statistical learning techniques where an agent explicitly takes actions and interacts wi…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 29th Nov, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

A Complete Reinforcement Learning System (Capstone)

21 reviews

In this final course, you will put together your knowledge from Courses 1, 2 and 3 to implement a complete RL solution to a problem. This capstone will let you see how each component---problem formulation, algorithm selection, parameter selection and rep…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 29th Nov, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Astro 101: Black Holes

5 reviews

What is a black hole? Do they really exist? How do they form? How are they related to stars? What would happen if you fell into one? How do you see a black hole if they emit no light? What’s the difference between a black hole and a really dark star? Cou…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 10 weeks long
• 1 week from now (13th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Bugs 101: Insect-Human Interactions

4 reviews

Of all the animals on earth, which are the strongest for their size? What about the fastest? Who were the first animals to evolve flight? Insects take all of these titles and more! As the most abundant animals on the planet, insects and other arthropods…

• Coursera
• 49 hours worth of material, 13 weeks long
• 1 week from now (13th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Service-Oriented Architecture

3 reviews

Based on an understanding of architectural styles, you will review architectures for web applications, then explore the basics of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in two approaches: Web Services (WS*) and Representational State Transfer (REST) archite…

• Coursera
• 9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5 days from now (6th Dec)
• Free Online Course (Audit)