What does it take to be a spy? Get a taste of spy training, and learn how you can keep your secrets safe with a course designed for 13-18-year-olds. The course "World of Spies: Keeping Secrets" will help you develop those abilities while exploring the exciting world of espionage. You’ll learn about code-making and breaking, encryption, logical thinking and more as you find … [Read more...]
Learn E-Commerce Strategies To Increase Revenue – Free Course
In the free Alison online course "E-Commerce and Selling Online" learn ways in which businesses of any size can complete transactions using online technology and how selling online can help your business reach new markets and increase business sales and revenues. The course introduces you to the practice of e-commerce, the range of benefits that come from purchasing and … [Read more...]
Introduction to Cyber Security – A Free Online Course
Our lives increasingly depend on digital services - for work, play and shopping - and so the need to protect our information from being maliciously disrupted or misused is really important. This free online course from The Open University UK will help you to understand online security and how to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. Course Content The course … [Read more...]
CS50 – Introduction to Computer Science I – A Free Course
Computer Science 50 (otherwise known as CS50) is Harvard College's introductory course for majors and non-majors alike, a one-semester amalgam of courses generally known as CS1 and CS2 taught mostly in C. This course teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource … [Read more...]
Bits: The Computer Science of Digital Information – A Free Course
This course focuses on information as quantity, resource, and property. We study the application of quantitative methods to understanding how information technologies inform issues of public policy, regulation, and law. How are music, images, and telephone conversations represented digitally, and how are they moved reliably from place to place through wires, glass fibers, … [Read more...]
Understanding Computers and the Internet – Free Course
This course is all about understanding: understanding what's going on inside your computer when you flip on the switch, why tech support has you constantly rebooting your computer, how everything you do on the Internet can be watched by others, and how your computer can become infected with a worm just by being turned on. Designed for students who use computers and the … [Read more...]
