AlaskaX
AlaskaX
UAF has partnered with edX since 2020 to offer free online courses and programs to a global audience. Our 43 courses and ten programs cover topics from fisheries to arctic security and continue to grow.
edX is a global online education platform founded by MIT and Harvard in 2012 that has reached 70 million learners across the globe. AlaskaX courses share UAF’s expertise with the world and communicate our role as a leader in climate change research, indigenous studies, Arctic and circumpolar studies and geospatial science.
All AlaskaX courses are MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses, meaning that there are no enrollment caps. All content is offered for free, with the option for learners to upgrade to the verified track. This paid track provides a grade and proof of completion.
Explore an AlaskaX Course
- Browse the AlaskaX catalog and enroll here: AlaskaX Courses
- Choose a course or program.
- Click ‘Enroll’.
- Create an account.
- Study at your own pace!
Courses and Professional Certificates
Courses are self-paced and can be audited for free. Students can choose to pay a small fee to receive a verified track certificate to document the completion of the course, providing a verifiable, sharable credential.
- GIS Foundations
- 3D GIS
- GIS Image Analysis in ArcGIS Pro
- Teaching and Learning in the Era of AI
- 3D Printing Essentials: From Design to Reality
- Proposal Planning for Grant-Funded Projects
- Grant Proposal Writing
- Grant Award Management
- Mining Engineering Principles: Exploration to Innovation
- Synthetic Aperture Radar: Foundations
- Synthetic Aperture Radar: Hazards
- Synthetic Aperture Radar: Ecosystems
- Climate Change in Arctic Environments
- Salmon, People, and Place
- Arctic Security Fundamentals
- Powering Resilient Communities: A Holistic Approach to Food, Energy, and Water Security
- The Resilient & Renewable Grid: How Microgrids are Revolutionizing Energy Systems
- Sport Business Foundations
- Sales in Sport Business
- Sport Analytics: Data Driven Decision Making
- Grow Your Own Food
- Behavioral Neuroscience: Foundations of Compulsive Behaviors
- Behavioral Neuroscience: Analyzing Anxiety & Depression
- Behavioral Neuroscience: Contrasting Tests for Anxiety and Depression
- One Health: Life Interconnected
- One Health as Holistic Problem Solving
- Operationalizing One Health
- Introduction to Social Work
- Areas of Social Work Practice
- Embracing the Whole Person in Social Work
- Mental Health History & Treatment
- Mental Health Theory & Practice
- The Craft of Storytelling
- Crisis Ready: Personal Preparedness in the Modern World
- Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS): Fundamentals
- Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS): Flight Planning
- Inupiaq Language & Culture
- Yup’ik Language & Culture
- Remote Sensing of Wildfires
- Unmanned Aerial Systems (2 Courses)
- Fundamentals of Grant Proposal Writing and Management (3 Courses: Proposal Planning for Grant-Funded Projects, Grant Proposal Writing, Grant Award Management)
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Essentials (3 Courses: GIS Foundations, GIS Image Analysis in ArcGIS Pro, 3D GIS)
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR): Applications (3 Courses: Synthetic Aperture Radar: Foundations, Synthetic Aperture Radar: Hazards, Synthetic Aperture Radar: Ecosystems)
- Sport Business Management (3 Courses: Sport Business Foundations, Sales in Sport Business, Sport Analytics: Data Driven Decision Making)
- Behavioral Neuroscience Research (3 Courses: Behavioral Neuroscience: Foundations of Compulsive Behaviors, Behavioral Neuroscience: Analyzing Anxiety and Depression, Behavioral Neuroscience: Advanced Insights from Mouse Models)
- Introduction to Social Work (2 Courses: Introduction to Social Work, Areas of Social Work Practice)
- Mental Health in Social Work (2 Courses: Mental Health Theory & Practice, Mental Health History & Treatment)
- Social Work: Perspectives on Trauma and Wellness (2 Courses: Embracing the Whole Person in Social Work, Multiple Perspectives in Social Work)
- Understanding & Operationalizing One Health (3 Courses: One Health: Life Interconnected, One Health as Holistic Problem Solving, Operationalizing One Health)
- Resilient Energy Systems for Sustainable Communities (2 Courses: The Resilient and Renewable Grid: How Microgrids are Revolutionizing Energy Systems, Powering Resilient Communities: A Holistic Approach to Food, Energy, and Water Security)
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