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Very different from what is taught in standard courses, “Fundamentals of Current Flow” provides a unified conceptual framework for ballistic and diffusive transport of both electrons and phonons – essential information for understanding nanoelectronic devices.

The traditional description of electronic motion through a solid is based on diffusive transport, which means that the electron takes a random walk from the source to the drain of a transistor, for example. However, modern nanoelectronic devices often have channel lengths comparable to a mean free path so that electrons travel ballistically, or “like a bullet.”

Verified/Master’s students taking this course will be required to complete two (2) proctored exams using the edX online Proctortrack software. To be sure your computer is compatible, see Proctortrack Technical Requirements.

Nanoscience and Technology MicroMasters ®

Fundamentals of Current Flow is one course in a growing suite of unique, 1-credit-hour short courses developed in an edX/Purdue University collaboration. Students may elect to pursue a verified certificate for this specific course alone or as one of the six courses needed for the edX/Purdue MicroMasters® program in Nanoscience and Technology.

For further information and other courses offered, see the Nanoscience and Technology MicroMasters® page. Courses like this can also apply toward a Purdue University MSECE degree for students accepted into the full master’s program.

What You’ll Learn

Ballistic and diffusive conductance
Density of states
Number of modes
Conductivity
Landauer formula

MicroMasters® Program in Nano-Science and Technology

Nanoelectronic devices are an integral part of our life, including the billion-plus transistors in every smartphone, each of which has an active region that is only a few hundred atoms in length. This previously-unimaginable scale has become possible by thoroughly understanding the critical mechanisms that take place at the scale of individual atoms and molecules. Similarly, nanophotonic devices are built into the core of modern life through technologies such as fiber-optic communications, also known as the backbone of the internet.

Semiconductor Fundamentals

Nanophotonic Modeling

Fundamentals of Current Flow

Fundamentals of Transistors

Fiber Optic Communications

Introduction to Quantum Transport

6 8 months in total 7 - 9 hours per week

Complete Program $4,050.00

Program Details

Prerequisites

Undergraduate degree in engineering or the physical sciences, knowledge of differential equations and linear algebra.

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

Meet Your Instructors

Supriyo Datta

Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NAE member at Purdue University - https://nanohub.org/groups/supriyodatta Supriyo Datta started his career in ultrasonics, but since 1985 has focused on current flow in nanoscale electronic devices. The approach pioneered by his group for the description of quantum transport has been widely adopted in the field of nano electronics and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for this work. This approach, combining the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism of many-body physics with the Landauer formalism from mesoscopic physics, is described in his books Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems (Cambridge 1995), Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor (Cambridge 2005) and Lessons from Nanoelectronics (World Scientific 2012). He is also well-known for his contributions to spin electronics and molecular electronics.

Shuvro Chowdhury

PhD Student at Purdue University Shuvro Chowdhury received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2011. He got his Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same university in 2014. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD degree in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. His current research interest includes solving quantum many body problems with artificial neural network. His previous research was on analytical modeling of current in junctionless double gate MOSFETs. He also did some research in quantum computing.

Course Overview:

Virtually all managerial and leadership positions in the digital economy increasingly rely on data-driven decision making. Recent studies have shown companies who adopt “Data-Driven Decision Management” achieve significant productivity gains over other firms.

Having a solid grasp of the end-to-end process of making effective decisions with data will give you an edge, both in performing such analyses yourself, as well as in effectively managing teams of business analysts and data scientists.

In this course, part of both the Digital Leadership and Digital Product Management MicroMasters programs, you will learn the tools and techniques to become a data-driven or “evidence-based” manager.

You will learn the process of reframing a business question as a data question, reasoning about what data might be of assistance and how to obtain it, integrating and cleaning the data, performing the analysis, deriving and communicating insights from the analysis, and building the managerial culture to operate in this way and create competitive advantages from enterprise data.

This course is unique in the sense that it aims squarely at the needs of a manager in an analytically focused enterprise by providing both a hands-on introduction to the concepts, methods and processes of business analytics as well as an introduction to the use of analytics as the basis for creating a competitive advantage.

Software Requirements

Completion of this course requires the use of Microsoft Power BI Desktop. Unfortunately, there is currently no version of Power BI Desktop for macOS or Linux operating systems. We encourage learners to secure access to a Windows environment, but if that is not possible, macOS and Linux users can run Power BI Desktop in a virtual Windows environment. The course provides steps for installing such an environment.

What You’ll Learn

Key analytic technologies and techniques, e.g. predictive modeling and machine learning, and how these can play a role in managerial decision making
How to effectively manage the analytical processes and use the results of these processes as the basis for making informed, evidence-based decisions
How companies can use analytics as the basis for creating value

Lebo Test

8 Weeks 3–6 hours per week

Complete Program $399.00

Next Start Oct 15, 2020 - Dec 12, 2020

Program Details

Prerequisites

Elementary college course in statistics.

Meet your instructors

John W. Byers

Professor of Computer Science at Boston University

John is Professor of Computer Science at Boston University and Founding Chief Scientist of Cogo Labs, founded in 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1997 and his B.A. from Cornell University in 1991.

Chris Dellarocas

Richard C. Shipley Professor of Information Systems at Boston University

Chris is Richard C. Shipley Professor of Information Systems at the Questrom School of Business and Associate Provost for Digital Learning & Innovation at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1996 and his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1989.

Andrei Lapets

Director of Research Development and Research Scientist, Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University

Andrei is a Research Scientist and Director of Research Development within the Hariri Institute for Computing, Director of the Software & Application Innovation Lab, and Adjunct Assistant Professor within the Department of Computer Science, all at Boston University. He earned his A.B. and S.M. degrees from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University.

About this course

Financial accounting is called the “language of business,” and for good reasons. An examination of a firm’s financial statements – which reflect the company’s performance – reveals a wealth of information about its history, current financial health, and future potential. This is why business leaders use accounting to communicate their organization’s financial information to potential investors, shareholders, lenders, and regulators. Financial accounting allows an organization’s leaders to make sound business decisions and helps investors better understand company value.

In this course, you will learn how to interpret and communicate financial statements so that you can speak confidently on indicators such as assets, liabilities, shareholders’ equity, and goodwill. This course will teach you how to interpret the three financial statements core to any business–the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows–and analyze how they reflect business decisions. By the end of this course, you will know how to use financial accounting as a strategic tool to understand and grow your business–and understand and outmaneuver your competitors.

What you’ll learn

The impact of financial transactions on financial statements
How to read and prepare balance sheets, income and cash flow statements
How to use financial statements to understand the profitability and financial health of your organization
How to choose between equity and debt to finance the growth of your firm

MicroMasters® in MBA Core Curriculum

Pay as you go – start the first course for $399. Set yourself apart and accelerate your career.

Marketing Management

Leadership and Influence

Financial Accounting

Digital Transformation in Business

Data Analysis for Decision Making

Global Business Strategy

Corporate Finance

7 Courses 1 year 8 - 10 Hours per week

Complete Program $2,513.70

Program Details

Meet your instructor

Progyan Basu

Clinical Professor of Accounting Information Assurance at University of Maryland Professor Basu has over 25 years of teaching a variety of Accounting courses and seminars in the US and abroad at different levels. At Smith School of Business, he teaches Financial and Managerial Accounting at the undergraduate, MBA, and EMBA levels. He has received several awards and distinctions for teaching excellence, including the Krowe Teaching Excellence Award, Distinguished Teaching Award, and Undergraduate Studies Faculty Fellowship. He serves as a Faculty Director for the PTMBA and EMBA program, as well as a Faculty Champion for the Undergraduate Accounting Teaching Scholars program

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

About This Course:

Build your accounting foundation with this course on U.S. federal income taxation. You’ll learn about the taxation of both businesses and individuals. In addition to income tax laws, you’ll discover how to reduce the present value of income taxes.

Topics will include tax planning strategies, qualified business income deduction, tax compliance, and more.

Verified Learners will need to purchase a textbook in order to successfully complete the course. See the FAQ for details.

What You Will Learn:

How to properly applyfederal income tax laws to income taxpayers–both individuals and businesses
How to usebasic finance tools tohelpindividual taxpayers and businessesmake decisionsthat maximize their after-tax wealth or earnings
How to differentiate federal income tax laws from financial accounting standards

MicroMasters® Program in Accounting

Gain skills in financial accounting, managerial accounting, and tax

Financial Reporting I

Managerial Accounting and Corporate Control

Taxes and Decision Making

3 Courses in Program 9 Months 8 - 12 hours per week

Complete Program $1,347.30

Program Details

Prerequisites:

Frequently Asked Questions:

Does this course require a textbook?
Yes, if you are Verified Learner, a textbook is required. If you choose to verify, you will also need to purchase a copy of Jones, Sally (2020). Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning 2020 Edition (23rd.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Print ISBN: 9781259969546, 1259969541; eText ISBN: 9781260433210, 1260433218. This textbook typically costs around $57.50 to rent and $93.75 to purchase permanently. A digital copy is acceptable.

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

Meet Your Instructor:

Greg Geisler

Clinical Professor of Accounting at Indiana University

Greg Geisler, PhD, CPA is a Clinical Professor of Accounting at Indiana University (Bloomington), where he teaches income tax courses. At his former institution, the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL), Greg won the Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2017 and the Governor’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006. Both are awarded to only one UMSL professor per year. He holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame. Before entering academia full-time, he was a practicing CPA working in public accounting for 5 years.

About This Course:

Success in any organization requires measurement systems to support decision making. This course focuses on preparing and analyzing accounting information for internal decisions that are often required to be made by both accounting and non-accounting professionals. In particular, the course will highlight how internal accounting information can be used (and often misused) when making complex business decisions. Managerial accounting is not constrained by the rules and regulations that surround financial accounting, which allows us to develop tailored measurement systems that provide a framework for planning and control, as well as costing products, services, and customers.

Students enrolled in this course will learn to prepare basic financial statements (e.g., balance sheet and income statement). In particular, they will understand how direct and overhead costs influence inventory and cost of goods sold calculations and are accounted for under financial reporting. Further, they will also learn to understand the importance of budgeting and how standard costing and variance analysis are used in evaluating managerial performance. In addition, students will learn how cost behavior and financial information are used in operational decision making and pricing. Finally, students will gain a basic understanding of how cash flows are used in capital budgeting decisions.

Verified Learners will need to purchase a textbook in order to successfully complete the course. See the FAQ for details.

What You Will Learn:

Understand the key technical aspects of managerial accounting, including basic terminology and internal measurement systems
How to confidently analyze information to make decisions, including identifying and analyzing costs, preparing budgets, and applying an economic framework
Understand accounting’s theoretical framework and its interdisciplinary links

MicroMasters® Program in Accounting

Gain skills in financial accounting, managerial accounting, and tax

Financial Reporting I

Managerial Accounting and Corporate Control

Taxes and Decision Making

3 Courses in Program 9 Months 8 - 12 hours per week

Complete Program $1,347.30

Program Details

Prerequisites:

This course is intended for those who have junior or senior standing at a college or university, or have already attained at least a bachelor’s degree.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Does this course require a textbook?

Yes, if you are Verified Learner, a textbook is required. If you choose to verify, you will also need to purchase a copy of Garrison, R. (2018). Managerial Accounting (16th ed.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Print ISBN: 9781259307416, 1259307417: eText ISBN: 9781259995484, 1259995488. This textbook typically costs around $57.50 to rent and $93.75 to purchase permanently. A digital copy is acceptable.

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

Meet Your Instructor:

Brian P. Miller

Associate Professor of Accounting at Indiana University

Brian P. Miller is the PwC Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University and has taught for more than 15 years at a number of universities. Professor Miller’s teaching interests focus on financial and managerial accounting an emphasis on decision making, where he is able to combine his practical experience with his research interests.He has taught a variety of MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD programs. In addition to more traditional classroom learning environments, he has had the opportunity to lead groups of MBA students to Guatemala, where students can apply the skills they learn in the classroom to consulting projects. He has received numerous teaching awards during his career. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked at public accounting and as a finance manager at Procter & Gamble. In particular, he served as a financial analyst in fabric care, a cost analyst in the company’s new business development group, and as a cost forecaster for a several billion dollar segment of the company. During his time at Procter & Gamble he was awarded the Outstanding Achievements in Fabric Care in Finance and Accounting. His research is focused on measuring managerial talent, management disclosure decisions, and the penalties managers pay for misreporting. His work has been published in several prestigious journals including The Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, and The Review of Accounting Studies. He serves as an Associate Editor at Management Science and on the editorial boards at several other prestigious journals. He is also the recipient of the awarded American Accounting Association’s Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award. In his free time, Brian loves spending time with his wife and kids, traveling, and competing in triathlons.

About this course

This course builds on introductory accounting courses by providing you with a deep understanding of the conceptual foundations and mechanics of financial reporting and accounting standards. The course focuses on the measurement and reporting of the asset side of the balance sheets as well as the measurement of revenues and expenses on income statements. The content of the course is particularly important for students seeking careers in accounting and finance, as well as professionals who want to increase their knowledge of financial accounting.

Before taking this course, you should be familiar with basic accounting terminology, T-accounts, and journal entries. Financial Reporting I will help you become more fluent in accounting and business discussions.

The course places emphasis on firms’ economic transactions and business activities, and the accounting measurements and journal entries we use to measure and report those transactions and activities. You will develop professional judgment and critical thinking skills. You will consider the economics of business activities and events and consider the degree to which financial reports capture the underlying economics. This will enable you to obtain the tools necessary to understand and execute accounting procedures with an increased appreciation of the broader business context in which accounting information is prepared and used in business decisions.

What You Will Learn

Understand the broad objectives of financial reporting and with respect to specific transactions
How to measure, record, and report important business transactions
How to prepare and analyze financial statements, including balance sheets and income statements
How to effectively research more complex topic areas in US GAAP using the FASB’s Codification and other resources

MicroMasters® Program in Accounting

Gain skills in financial accounting, managerial accounting, and tax

Financial Reporting I

Managerial Accounting and Corporate Control

Taxes and Decision Making

3 Courses in Program 9 Months 8 - 12 hours per week

Complete Program $1,347.30

Program Details

Prerequisites

This course is intended for those who have junior or senior standing at a college or university, or have already attained at least a bachelor’s degree.

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

Meet Your Instructors

Ken Merkley

Associate Professor of Accounting at Indiana University

Ken Merkley is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Accounting Department at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. His research focuses on the role of information in capital markets. He specializes in examining corporate financial communication decisions and the influence of external capital market participants, such as investors, financial analysts, auditors, and lawyers. He serves on the editorial board of The Accounting Review and referees for top journals in accounting and finance. Prior to joining Kelley, he served on the faculty of Cornell University, where he was a distinguished teacher and researcher at the Johnson Graduate School of Business. He received the Barry and Ann Riding Fellowship and the Half Century Faculty Research award. In 2014, he was named by Poets & Quants as one of the Top 40 Business School Professors Under 40. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and received his Master of Accountancy (MAcc) from Brigham Young University.

Course Overview

Very different from what is taught in standard courses, “Fundamentals of Current Flow” provides a unified conceptual framework for ballistic and diffusive transport of both electrons and phonons – essential information for understanding nanoelectronic devices.

The traditional description of electronic motion through a solid is based on diffusive transport, which means that the electron takes a random walk from the source to the drain of a transistor, for example. However, modern nanoelectronic devices often have channel lengths comparable to a mean free path so that electrons travel ballistically, or “like a bullet.”

Verified/Master’s students taking this course will be required to complete two (2) proctored exams using the edX online Proctortrack software. To be sure your computer is compatible, see Proctortrack Technical Requirements.

Nanoscience and Technology MicroMasters ®

Fundamentals of Current Flow is one course in a growing suite of unique, 1-credit-hour short courses developed in an edX/Purdue University collaboration. Students may elect to pursue a verified certificate for this specific course alone or as one of the six courses needed for the edX/Purdue MicroMasters® program in Nanoscience and Technology.

For further information and other courses offered, see the Nanoscience and Technology MicroMasters® page. Courses like this can also apply toward a Purdue University MSECE degree for students accepted into the full master’s program.

What You’ll Learn

Ballistic and diffusive conductance
Density of states
Number of modes
Conductivity
Landauer formula

MicroMasters® Program in Nano-Science and Technology

Nanoelectronic devices are an integral part of our life, including the billion-plus transistors in every smartphone, each of which has an active region that is only a few hundred atoms in length. This previously-unimaginable scale has become possible by thoroughly understanding the critical mechanisms that take place at the scale of individual atoms and molecules. Similarly, nanophotonic devices are built into the core of modern life through technologies such as fiber-optic communications, also known as the backbone of the internet.

Semiconductor Fundamentals

Nanophotonic Modeling

Fundamentals of Current Flow

Fundamentals of Transistors

Fiber Optic Communications

Introduction to Quantum Transport

6 8 months in total 7 - 9 hours per week

Complete Program $4,050.00

Program Details

Prerequisites

Undergraduate degree in engineering or the physical sciences, knowledge of differential equations and linear algebra.

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

Meet Your Instructors

Supriyo Datta

Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NAE member at Purdue University - https://nanohub.org/groups/supriyodatta Supriyo Datta started his career in ultrasonics, but since 1985 has focused on current flow in nanoscale electronic devices. The approach pioneered by his group for the description of quantum transport has been widely adopted in the field of nano electronics and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for this work. This approach, combining the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism of many-body physics with the Landauer formalism from mesoscopic physics, is described in his books Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems (Cambridge 1995), Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor (Cambridge 2005) and Lessons from Nanoelectronics (World Scientific 2012). He is also well-known for his contributions to spin electronics and molecular electronics.

Shuvro Chowdhury

PhD Student at Purdue University Shuvro Chowdhury received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2011. He got his Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same university in 2014. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD degree in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. His current research interest includes solving quantum many body problems with artificial neural network. His previous research was on analytical modeling of current in junctionless double gate MOSFETs. He also did some research in quantum computing.

Course Overview

Requirements: The Masterclass LiveLessons – Agile, Traditional, Outsourcing is a video course covering requirements, whether they are the requirements for software, a service, or a product. This video teaches the requirements process from initiation and scoping, through investigating the work being done and then determining the optimal solution to improve that work. After this course, business analysts, agile team members, and others concerned with requirements will be able to discover the correct requirements and communicate them precisely and unambiguously to the product developers.

This video course teaches you how to become a requirements wizard—it covers the gamut of the requirements activities. It begins with how to scope the problem using a context model and then how to use business events and business use cases to subdivide the problem space into manageable and convenient chunks. It looks at how to uncover the real problem—something not done on many projects—and then how to find its optimal solution. Then the video show how to write unambiguous and correct stories or requirements to ensure correct development.

The course includes some downloadable material that enhances the video lessons and provides exercises to sharpen your requirements skills.

What You Will Learn

How to discover and elicit requirements
How to write unambiguous and testable requirements
How to write the correct agile stories
How to run your requirements project, whether it’s an agile, traditional, outsourced, or OTS project
How to understand the role of good requirements in agile development
How to scope the business problem
How to ensure the scope and the stakeholders match the goals
How to study the business
How to find the right solution to the real business problem
How to review the requirements
How to trace requirements
How to get requirements right

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of the need for requirements in the development process

Course Overview

This capstone course will feature knowledge, disposition, and performance assessments that examine growth along dimensions critical to the effective leadership of educational innovation and improvement.

Learners will apply knowledge and principles of ambitious instruction, logics of innovation, improvement science, and exemplary cases to case studies of large-scale, practice-focused innovation. In doing so, they will identify and explain strengths in these innovations. They will also identify problems and challenges faced by these initiatives and, then, propose means of organizing and managing in response to those problems and challenges.

This course is part of the Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement MicroMasters Program offered by MichiganX.

What You’ll Learn

Applications of improvement science
Knowledge of strategies for leading educational innovation and improvement
Dispositions essential to organizing and managing educational innovation and improvement
Capabilities to construct research-based solutions to core challenges that arise in organizing and managing educational innovation and improvement

Working knowledge of schools and education systems as well as the political, policy, and public pressures to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all students.

MicroMasters® Program in Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement

Become an innovative leader in the classroom

Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning

Designing and Leading Learning Systems

Improvement Science in Education

Case Studies in Continuous Educational Improvement

Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement Capstone

5 10 months total 2 - 4 hours each week

Complete Program $940.50

Program Details

Meet Your Instructors

Donald J. Peurach

Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership, and Innovation in the School of Education at University of Michigan Donald J. Peurach is Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership, and Innovation in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. His research, teaching, and outreach focus on the production, use, and management of knowledge-in-practice among social innovators and those they seek to serve. As such, his work sits squarely at the intersection of educational policy, leadership, and innovation. He is the author of Seeing Complexity in Public Education: Problems, Possibilities, and Success for All (2011, Oxford University Press) and a co-author of Improvement by Design: The Promise of Better Schools (2014, University of Chicago Press). Peurach also serves as a Fellow of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and as a Faculty Associate in the Center for Positive Organizations in the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). Before pursuing an academic career, he was a high school mathematics teacher and, before that, a systems analyst in manufacturing, healthcare, and higher education. Peurach holds a BA in computer science from Wayne State University, an MPP from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Educational Studies from the School of Education at the University of Michigan.

Course Overview

With principles of improvement science as a foundation, new knowledge about the continuous improvement of educational innovations is rapidly emerging among communities of educational professionals and researchers, as they work together in new ways to solve practical problems, improve student performance, and reduce achievement gaps.

Developed in collaboration with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this course will use case studies to take learners deep into the design, organization, and management of three innovative approaches to large-scale, practice-focused continuous improvement that have currency in the US and abroad:

Design-Based Implementation Research
Implementation Science
Networked Improvement Communities

What You’ll Learn

To identify approaches to continuous improvement appropriate for specific schools and systems.
To apply logics of innovation and principles of improvement science to authentic cases of continuous improvement.

Working knowledge of schools and education systems as well as the political, policy, and public pressures to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all students.

MicroMasters® Program in Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement

Become an innovative leader in the classroom

Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning

Designing and Leading Learning Systems

Improvement Science in Education

Case Studies in Continuous Educational Improvement

Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement Capstone

5 10 months total 2 - 4 hours each week

Complete Program $940.50

Program Details

Meet Your Instructors

Donald J. Peurach

Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership, and Innovation in the School of Education at University of Michigan Donald J. Peurach is Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership, and Innovation in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. His research, teaching, and outreach focus on the production, use, and management of knowledge-in-practice among social innovators and those they seek to serve. As such, his work sits squarely at the intersection of educational policy, leadership, and innovation. He is the author of Seeing Complexity in Public Education: Problems, Possibilities, and Success for All (2011, Oxford University Press) and a co-author of Improvement by Design: The Promise of Better Schools (2014, University of Chicago Press). Peurach also serves as a Fellow of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and as a Faculty Associate in the Center for Positive Organizations in the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). Before pursuing an academic career, he was a high school mathematics teacher and, before that, a systems analyst in manufacturing, healthcare, and higher education. Peurach holds a BA in computer science from Wayne State University, an MPP from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Educational Studies from the School of Education at the University of Michigan.

Paul LeMahieu

Senior VP for Programs and Operations at Carnegie Foundation Paul LeMahieu is the senior vice president for programs and operations at the Carnegie Foundation. At Carnegie, he directs all of its programmatic efforts as well as the work of the Center for Networked Improvement (comprised of groups dedicated to collaborative technology, analytics, improvement science, as well as network initiation and development). LeMahieu served as superintendent of education for the state of Hawaii, the only state in the nation that is a unitary school district with annual budgets totaling over $1.8 billion. He was President of the National Association of Test Directors and Vice President of the American Educational Research Association. He served on the National Academy of Sciences' Board on International Comparative Studies in Education, Mathematical Sciences Education Board, the National Board on Testing Policy, and the National Board on Professional Teaching Standards. His current professional interests focus on the adaptation of improvement science tools and methodologies for application in networks in education. He is a co-author of the recent book Learning to improve: How America’s schools can get better at getting better, and lead author of the forthcoming Working to improve: Seven approaches to quality improvement in education. LeMahieu has a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s from Yale College.