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In this course, instructors (Randy Testa, Ben Kirschner, Emily Price, and Dan Liston) developed two capstone projects for the Coursera Specialization called Teacher and SEL. These two options include: "This course is part of the 5-course Teacher and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Specialization. Are you interested in earning 3 CU Boulder college credits for this Specialization? If so, please review the "How You Can Earn 3 CU Boulder College Credits in This Specialization" section in the first module of this course. We want to point out that the courses in this Specialization were designed to accommodate a 3-credit course load. As a student, you may notice that the course has a little more reading and a little less video/lecture. Completion and passing of the SEL Specialization exam allows the participant to earn 3 graduate credits toward teacher recertification and professional development. We are committed to ensuring the quality and excellence of teaching at the University of Colorado. Are you interested in earning 3 CU Boulder college credits for the Teacher and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Specialization? Please review "How You Can Earn 3 University of Colorado-Boulder Credits in This Major" given in the first week of this course for more information.

Social and emotional learning, or SEL, programs have been thriving in schools for the past decade. These programs vary widely, but most focus on developing five individual competencies in students: self-awareness; self-management; social awareness; relationship skills; and, finally, responsible decision making. It is important for teachers and parents to know and understand these programs. While many SEL programs focus on the social and emotional learning of K-12 students, there are very few programs that focus on developing and helping teachers explore their own emotional well-being. In this specialization, we believe that: To facilitate students’ social and emotional learning, teachers must know the student as an individual. This means that teachers must strive to know themselves. In order to help students achieve a certain level of well-being, teachers must be aware of their own well-being. In our Teacher & SEL specialization, educators (Randy Testa and Dan Liston, and Emily Price and Ben Kirschner) examine SEL programs in kindergarten through high school, looking at both established programs and lesser-known approaches that focus on community and youth empowerment. Along with looking at SEL programs in K-12 schools, we bring a much-needed focus to teacher well-being. Applied learning project Students will use the knowledge and skills gained in the course to create a "Teacher Implementation Plan" aimed at developing SEL programs for students or teachers, or a film project exploring the impact of SEL on students and teachers in educationally focused films.

Join us for an action-oriented online teacher professional development course! This course will teach participants how to define and implement a local service-learning campaign using the Roots & Shoots model. The service-learning program will provide participants with resources for educators to learn the differences between service-learning and community service, and to apply the Roots & Shoots model to help youth have a voice in identifying and meeting the needs of their community. Our goal at Roots & Shoots is to develop compassionate leaders who will make the world a better place for people, other animals, and the environment. Help us achieve this goal! Take a course and mentor young people so they can lead change in their communities using community mapping, stakeholder collaboration, and developing practical solutions in the form of campaigns. Introduce young people to Dr. Jane Goodall’s message of hope while promoting the sense of empowerment that comes from helping others!

This specialization is designed for students who want to revolutionize the way they use Excel spreadsheets by exploring the power of spreadsheet automation and optimization using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The first two courses teach students the basics of VBA through dozens of instructional videos, as well as a series of quizzes and application programming challenges. Finally, in the third part of the course, students complete three "real-world" projects and several open-source projects that will be assessed by peer review. Applied learning project Students will complete one easy project (chosen from two possible projects), one intermediate project (chosen from two possible projects), and a third, required Monte Carlo simulation project (intermediate in difficulty). Projects include: Real-Time Currency Converter, Geography Toolbox, Ultimate Organizer, Regression Toolbox, Monte Carlo Simulation, and Grade Manager.

This course provides guidance and strategies to help you design a course that is inclusive for students with a wide range of abilities, including students with disabilities. Specifically, Fundamentals of Inclusive Web Design covers course organization, making Microsoft Office and PDF documents accessible, creating accessible instruction pages, captioning videos, creating accessible images, and designing for learning differences. We also discuss how inclusive course materials can benefit all students, including students without disabilities. This course is ideal for those who want a broad overview of all aspects of accessibility as well as step-by-step guidance on how to review documents for accessibility, caption videos, or prepare course materials for non-visual users. Course logo: Web Accessibility Word Cloud by Jill Wright

This course can also be taken for credit as ECEA 5600, part of CU Boulder’s Electrical Engineering Master of Science program. Optical devices are how we see the world, from corrective eyeglasses to medical endoscopes, cell phone cameras, and orbital telescopes. When you complete this course, you will be able to design such optical systems to first order using simple mathematical and graphical techniques. This first-order design will allow you to develop the foundation needed to begin any optical design, as well as the intuition needed to quickly decide the feasibility of complex designs during brainstorming sessions. You will learn how to input these designs into the industry-standard design tool, OpticStudio from Zemax, to analyze and improve performance using powerful automated optimization techniques.

Optical instruments are the way we see the world, from corrective glasses to medical endoscopes, from mobile phone cameras to orbital telescopes. This course will teach you how to design such optical systems using simple graphical techniques, and then transform these pencil and paper designs to incorporate real optical components, including lenses, diffraction gratings, and prisms. You will learn how to input these designs into the industry standard design tool, OpticStudio from Zemax, for analysis and performance improvement using powerful automated optimization techniques. Applied learning project In each course in this specialization, you will design increasingly complex optical systems similar to those you might encounter in the real world. To do this, you will use both basic mathematical tools and Zemax's OpticStudio software application for final design.

This course may also be credited toward ECEA 5340 in the CU Boulder Electrical Engineering Master of Science program. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: ● Understand how to select the appropriate thermal, flow, or rotating sensor to obtain real-time process data. ● Implement thermal sensors in an embedded system in both hardware and software. ● Add a sensor and sensor interface to a microprocessor development kit. ● Create hardware and firmware to process sensor signals and feed the data to a microprocessor for further evaluation. ● Investigate sensor signal noise and apply appropriate hardware techniques to reduce it to an acceptable level. To complete the two course projects based on the videos in this module, you will need to purchase the following components. Note that if you have already purchased the PSOC 5LP PROTOTYPING KIT, you do not need to purchase it again. These parts can be purchased from the Digikey website, www.digikey.com. Or, you can obtain the specifications from the website and purchase them elsewhere. The part numbers are printed here so you can copy and paste them into the Digikey website. You will need one of each. 428-3390-ND NHD-0216BZ-RN-YBW-ND 570-1229-ND A105970CT-ND Additional equipment required: - Wire - various thicknesses and lengths - Breadboard - Oscilloscope - suggested models: o PICOSCOPE 2204A-D2 at www.digikey.com or o Digilent 410-324 | OpenScope MZ at www.newark.com Depending on your budget, you may also want to consider the following models: o Hantek HT6022BE20MHz - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009H4AYII o SainSmart DSO212 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074QBQNB7 o PoScope Mega50 USB - https://www.robotshop.com/en/poscope-mega50-usb-mso-oscilloscope.html o ADALM2000 - https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/analog-devices-inc./ADALM2000/7019661

In this specialization, you will learn about the basic functions that a battery management system must perform, how lithium-ion battery cells work, how to mathematically model their behavior, how to write algorithms (computer methods) to estimate the state of charge, health, remaining energy and available power, and how to balance the cells in a battery pack. Applied learning project Students will start with the included code templates (in Octave/MATLAB) to create their own code to model lithium-ion battery cells and packs and estimate state of charge, state of health (capacity and resistance), remaining energy, and available power.

This course may also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5341, part of CU Boulder's Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree program. This is our second course in the Sensor and Motor Embedding specialization. To get the most out of this course, you should first take our first course, Sensors and Sensing Circuits. Our first course provides you with instruction on using the hardware and software development kit we have selected for the labs. The second course assumes that you already know how to use the kit. After completing this course, you will be able to: ● Understand how to select the correct AC or DC motor for a machine project; ● Integrate a motor into a machine based on an analysis of the motor equations for voltage, current, torque, and speed. ● Implement the motor and associated rotation sensor in a motor control circuit in both hardware and software. ● Add the motor and motor control circuit to the microprocessor development kit. ● Create hardware and firmware to process the motor feedback data to the microprocessor for further evaluation. To complete the two course projects based on the videos in this module, you will need to purchase the following components. Note that if you have already purchased the PSOC 5LP PROTOTYPING KIT, you do not need to purchase it again. These parts can be purchased from the Digikey website, www.digikey.com. Or, you can get the specifications from the website and purchase them elsewhere. Here are the part numbers for the above table, the Motor Voltage and Current Measurement lab. You can copy and paste them into the search engine on the Digikey website. You need one of each, except for the AA batteries (N107-ND), of which you will need 3. 428-3390-ND P14355-ND FQU13N10LTU-ND N107-ND 1N5393-E3/54GICT-ND RNF14FTD1K00CT-ND P0.62W-1BK-ND Additional equipment required: - Wire - various gauges and lengths - Breadboard - Oscilloscope - suggested models: o PICOSCOPE 2204A-D2, available from www.digikey.com or o Digilent 410-324 | OpenScope MZ, available at www.newark.com Depending on your budget, you may also want to check out these models: o Hantek HT6022BE20MHz - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009H4AYII o SainSmart DSO212 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074QBQNB7 o PoScope Mega50 USB - https://www.robotshop.com/en/poscope-mega50-usb-mso-oscilloscope.html o ADALM2000 - https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/analog-devices-inc./ADALM2000/7019661

This course may also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5631, part of the CU Boulder Master of Science in Electrical Engineering program. This course provides a detailed discussion and analysis of p-n junctions and metal-semiconductor contacts, including equilibrium behavior, current and capacitance response under bias, breakdown, non-recoverable behavior, and skin effects. You will perform complex analyses and be able to apply them to electronic devices. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Analyze a p-n junction at equilibrium and under bias, capacitance and current characteristics, and breakdown behavior 2. Analyze a metal-semiconductor contact at equilibrium and under bias, capacitance and current characteristics, non-recoverable contact, and skin effects

This course may also be credited toward ECEA 5630, part of the CU Boulder electrical engineering master's degree program. This course introduces the fundamental concepts of the quantum theory of solids and presents the theory that describes the behavior of carriers in semiconductors. The course balances fundamental physics with applications to semiconductors and other electronic devices. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Understand the structure of energy bands and their significance for the electrical properties of solids 2. Analyze carrier statistics in semiconductors 3. Analyze carrier dynamics and the resulting conductivity properties of semiconductors