Rice University is offering the Nanotechnology: The Basics course on Coursera starting October 21, 2013. The course is 4 weeks long and indicates that 4-8 hours of work is require per week. An outline of the course by week includes:

• Week 1: Introduction to nanotechnology
• Week 2: Electronics in supper small materials
• Week 3: Magnetism at the nanoscale
• Week 4: Nanoscale photonics