Whether you are a student in the university trying to expand your knowledge and skills in your field or already employed you want to learn more about a specific topic or even a random guy want to start your own business, online courses have become the number one choice for everybody who wants to require new skills and knowledge in almost every field from programming to business and negotiation and marketing.
The market size of online courses is expected to be $375 billion by 2026, and that's huge market size and made many people make a living by creating online courses and generate millions of dollars every year publishing their courses on platforms such as Udemy and Pluralsight or even publish them on their own websites.
That huge market size also made some universities create their own courses and publish them on very reputable platforms such as edx and Coursera and one of these universities know as Michigan University and is considered one of the best universities in the USA in many fields such as business administrator and information technologies and we will share with you some of the online courses published by Michigan University.
1. Coursera Courses
1.1. Python for Everybody Specialization
Python programming language is almost used in every industry you can think of, from web development using the Flask and Django frameworks to data science and artificial intelligence using frameworks like TensorFlow and Pytorch.
The popularity of this language made the Michigan university create one of the most successful python courses with more than a million students enrolled and a 4.8-star rating with no prior experience required in this language, meaning any beginner can enroll and learn the fundamentals of this language and also how you can access the web and pull data and interact with the databases.
1.2. Web Applications for Everybody Specialization
The web application is an application that runs on the server like customer relationship management software or smart marketing tools available on the web.
It makes millions of dollars for companies, so the University of Michigan has created a course in Coursera showing you how to create this technology using the PHP language, which is used in the back-end where the processes happen inside the application and then learn how to store the data using MySQL database and link it with PHP language.
1.3. Applied Data Science with Python Specialization
Data science is the field to study the data and extract insight to drive decisions for companies to improve their user experience or products.
This science requires you to have many skills such as programming with different languages, statistics, math, machine learning, and more. The University of Michigan has created one of the most successful courses to learn data science with over 356k enrollment.
It will teach you first to use the python programming language and its fundamentals rather than plotting the data using python libraries such as matplotlib library and use machine learning algorithms to make predictions and text mining.
2. Edx Courses
2.1. Finance for Everyone
Want to learn how to manage your daily living expenses and understand where is better to put your money on, like buying a car or investing in the stock?
The University of Michigan has created a course on edx showing you how to take care of your financial life and use some smart tools to understand and make your daily life decisions about spending your money.
Also, you will understand the financial world, how it affects everyone in this world, and how to apply the decisions in your daily life or a professional situation.
2.2. Django for Everybody Specialization
The web application is like apps on your phone. Still, it is hosted on the web so everyone can use them and built with technologies different from your phone apps. For example, video and photo editing websites are web applications, and some messaging services like Gmail and Yahoo are also web applications.
The University of Michigan has launched a specialization in edx, teaching you how to create a web application using Django framework based on python. You will see also how to create a complete web application from the beginning and build the front-end using HTML, CSS, and other technologies.
Conclusion
Those list of courses are the most successful and learned by students. The University of Michigan has created tens of courses in these two platforms so you can explore more and get a degree online from this university without attending the real classes.
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