University of Alberta Courses

Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology

140 reviews

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

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 11th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Mountains 101

600 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
• 27th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds

42 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
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 22nd Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Sample-based Learning Methods

40 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
• 22 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Object-Oriented Design

39 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
• 27th Feb, 2023
• 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
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

A Complete Reinforcement Learning System (Capstone)

24 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
• 16 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles

30 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
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 22nd Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution

27 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
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 22nd Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design Patterns

27 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
• 27th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Astro 101: Black Holes

9 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
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Indigenous Canada

9 reviews

Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 13th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Bugs 101: Insect-Human Interactions

1235 ratings at Coursera

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
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Problem Solving, Python Programming, and Video Games

197 ratings at Coursera

This course is an introduction to computer science and programming in Python. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: 1. Take a new computational problem and develop a plan to solve it through problem understanding and decompos…

• Coursera
• 80 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 13th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Prediction and Control with Function Approximation

19 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
• 22 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)