At today’s date, there are countless opportunities for learning. Besides on-campus learning, online learning has been a popular medium to learn from the universities situated globally. Many universities nowadays offer online courses for the students worldwide who can attain knowledge without going to the classroom. The top universities also fall on the list of universities providing online learning opportunities. Stanford University is a top-ranked private university. Here are some of the online courses Stanford offers:
Antibiotic Stewardship
This course will introduce learners to the basic principles of appropriate antibiotic use, demonstrate how to apply these principles to the management of common infections, and outline how to develop and maintain an antimicrobial stewardship program. The course will also explore strategies to implement principles of antimicrobial stewardship both in your practice and also at a program level.
Start Date: March 11, 2019
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box – a valuable ability in today’s world. Also, this course helps to develop that crucial way of thinking.
Start Date: March 4, 2019
Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity
This course will seek to “understand Einstein,” especially focusing on the special theory of relativity that Albert Einstein, as a twenty-six year old patent clerk introduced. It goes behind the myth-making and beyond the popularized presentations of relativity in order to gain a deeper understanding.
Start Date: March 4, 2019
Game Theory II: Advanced Applications
This course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes. Three main topics are covered: social choice theory (i.e., collective decision making and voting systems), mechanism design, and auctions.
Start Date: March 11, 2019
Stories of Infection
This course introduces learners to a variety of infectious diseases using a patient-centered, story-based approach. Moreover, through illustrated, short videos, learners will follow the course of each patient’s illness, from initial presentation to resolution.
Start Date: March 11, 2019
Introduction to Logic
This course is an introduction to Logic from a computational perspective. Furthermore, it shows how to encode information in the form of logical sentences, it shows how to reason with information in this form, and it provides an overview of logic technology and its applications.
Start Date: April 1, 2019
Child Nutrition and Cooking
This course examines contemporary child nutrition besides the impact of the individual decisions made by each family.
Start Date: March 11, 2019
Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications
In this course you will learn about audio signal processing methodologies that are specific for music and of use in real applications. In addition, it focuses on the spectral processing techniques of relevance for the description and transformation of sounds.
Start Date: March 25, 2019
Cryptography II
Learn about the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and protocols as well as how to apply this knowledge in real-world applications.
Start Date: September 2019
Stanford Introduction to Food and Health
In this course, learners will be given the information and practical skills they need to begin optimizing the way they eat. This course will shift the focus away from reductionist discussions about nutrients and move, instead, towards practical discussions about real food and the environment in which we consume it.
Start Date: March 11, 2019