Alison’s free courses are very popular amongst the readers of Best Online Short Courses – as they are amongst students worldwide. Here are the 10 best-rated and most popular Alison specializations of 2019.





Data Science
“Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.”
~ Atul Butte, Stanford University




Design Thinking
“User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave – and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.”
~ Jesse James Garrett, User Experience Designer




Python Programming
“Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we’re looking for more people with skills in this language.”
~ Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google, Inc.




Accounting
“Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.”
~ Tilman J. Fertitta, Landry’s, Inc.




E-Commerce
“People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that’s really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that’s what I did.”
~ Pierre Omidyar, Founder of eBay




Entrepreneurship
“What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”
~ Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s




Project Management
“Operations keeps the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”
~ Joy Gumz




Digital Marketing
“Instead of one-way interruption, web marketing is about delivering useful content at precisely the right moment when a buyer needs it.”
~ David Meerman Scott, Marketing Strategist




Environmental Studies
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”
~ Stewart Udall




Leadership
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
~ Ronald Reagan