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Slides and notes for this semester, and three courses open for certification.

For students · Fall 2026

Slides and Notes for This Semester's Classes

For the students of Dr. Nadir's classes. Slides and notes are added here after each week's class, and open on any phone with nothing to log in to.

CourseMera · Certification

Apply for Certifications

Start your application and choose the course you want to be certified in. Three complete courses are already published and free to watch. The certificate is the step after that: you apply, you study to a schedule, you are assessed, and the certificate is issued in your name.

Apply

One email with your name, your city, what you study or do, and the course you want. You are sent back a start date. A token of PKR 500 from a public school, college or university; PKR 5,000 otherwise.

Study

Watch the lessons in order on CourseMera, free, and work through the reading and the exercises at your own pace.

Be Assessed

The quizzes inside the course, one written assignment, and a short final assessment. The pass mark is 60 percent.

Be Certified

A Certificate of Completion in your name, carrying the course, the lessons, the study hours and the date, signed by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees.

The Courses

Three Courses Open for Certification

Every lesson is already on the CourseMera channel and stays free to watch, with or without a certificate. No lesson is ever behind a payment.

Beginner · Open to all

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Taught by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees · Lectures 02 to 14

11Lessons

about 19 minVideo

about 12 hoursSuggested study

6 weeksComplete within

What You Will Learn

Where a business idea comes from, and how to test whether it is really an opportunity
The types of entrepreneur, and which one you are
Twenty short case studies, and what each founder did differently
Industry analysis and competition, read simply
The six essentials of a business plan

Skills You Will Gain

Opportunity recognition Feasibility analysis Industry analysis Business plan writing Case analysis

Watch the Course Free on CourseMera →

Beginner · Open to all

Research Tools and Techniques

Taught by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees · The Let's Do Research series, Parts 1 to 8

15Lessons

about 18 minVideo

about 15 hoursSuggested study

6 weeksComplete within

What You Will Learn

The research process, from a broad problem area to a hypothesis you can test
Deductive and inductive reasoning, and the hallmarks of good research
Qualitative traditions of inquiry, and when quantitative work is the right choice
Literature review, theoretical framework and hypothesis development
Sampling, data collection and research ethics
The SMART-DESIGN framework: the ten decisions a research design is actually made of

Skills You Will Gain

Problem formulation Literature review Theoretical framework Hypothesis development Sampling Research ethics

Watch the Course Free on CourseMera →

Beginner · Open to all

Corporate Governance

Taught by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees · Lectures 01 to 19

19Lessons

about 35 minVideo

about 18 hoursSuggested study

8 weeksComplete within

What You Will Learn

The four pillars of governance, and the theories underneath them
The structure and role of the SECP, and what SOX compliance asks of a company
Shareholders and stakeholders: rights, duties, and who really steers a company
The auditor's role, whistleblowing, the media and CSR
Enron, WorldCom, Satyam and Infosys, and the OECD lessons drawn from them

Skills You Will Gain

Governance frameworks Board and audit roles SECP, SOX and OECD literacy Case analysis Business ethics

Watch the Course Free on CourseMera →

The SMART-DESIGN framework

The SMART-DESIGN Framework

Dr. Nadir's own map of a research design, taught inside Research Tools and Techniques. Most students can recite the parts of a study and still cannot build one, because nobody ever told them it is a sequence of decisions. This is that sequence, and the letters spell what it is.

	The decision	The question it answers
S	Study Purpose	Why study this at all?
M	Method of Investigation	Is this about a relationship, or a cause?
A	Approach to Interference	Do you observe, or do you change something?
R	Research Setting	In the field, or in a controlled setting?
T	Target Unit of Analysis	Who or what are you actually studying?
D	Duration, the Time Horizon	One moment, or across time?
E	Evidence, the Data Collection	How will you gather it?
S	Sampling	Who gets selected, and how?
I	Indicators, the Measurement	How will you measure it?
G	Guided Analysis	How will you analyse what you find?
N	Next Insight	And now, what can you actually conclude?

Ten decisions, and the insight they produce. Get any one of the ten wrong and the eleventh is worth nothing, which is why the framework is taught in order rather than as a list. A short film exists for each decision, free on LinkedIn and on the channel.

How the study hours are counted

How the Study Hours Are Counted

The video is short on purpose: each lesson carries the argument and nothing else. The hours below are the guided study around it, which is what the certificate is actually issued against.

	Introduction to Entrepreneurship	Research Tools and Techniques	Corporate Governance
Lessons on CourseMera	11	15	19
Video to watch	about 19 min	about 18 min	about 35 min
Guided reading	5 hours	7 hours	8 hours
Exercises and case work	4 hours	5 hours	6 hours
Written assignment	2 hours	2 hours	3 hours
Quizzes and final assessment	1 hour	1 hour	1 hour
Suggested study in total	about 12 hours	about 15 hours	about 18 hours
Complete within	6 weeks	6 weeks	8 weeks

Advice before you enrol

“In Pakistan, what costs nothing is too easily taken for granted.”

Mr. Khurram Khan, General Manager, HR and Sustainability, Shahkam Industries, on a visit last year

He was right, and it decided how this works. A person who has put something in tends to finish what they started, and a certificate that nobody finished helps nobody at all.

So the line is drawn deliberately, and not across the knowledge:

Every lesson free, always PKR 500 token: public schools, colleges, universities PKR 5,000 for everyone else Waived on request, no questions

The lessons are never gated. What carries a fee is the assessment and the certificate, and for the students and teachers this was built for it is a token rather than a price. If even the token is a barrier, it is waived on a single line of email, because the point of it was commitment and never revenue.

How to Apply

One email. Put the course name in the subject line and these five things in the body.

Your full name, spelt exactly as it should appear on the certificate
Your city and country
What you study or do at the moment, in one line
The course you are applying for
The date you want to start. The completion window runs from that date

Apply to Be Certified

You are sent back a confirmation with your start date, the lesson list in order, the assignment, and the date of the final assessment.

The fee, and who does not pay it

PKR 500, a token, for every student and every teacher from a public school, public college or public university. They are who this was built for, and a tenth of the fee is enough to make it count for something.

PKR 5,000 for everyone else: private institutions, professionals and organisations.

And nobody is turned away over the token. If PKR 500 is itself the obstacle, write and say so in one line. It is waived, without a form and without a question.

Say which you are in your application. Nobody is asked for proof beyond their own word.

Why there is a fee at all is explained above, and it is not our own idea.

What the Certificate Says, and What It Does Not

An Unsung Achievers certificate of participation

Certificates of participation are already issued and handed over in person; this is one of them, with the name blurred.

It carries your name, the course, the number of lessons, the suggested study hours, the date of completion and a serial number, signed by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees, Founder of CourseMera.
It is a Certificate of Completion of an open course, issued by CourseMera.
It is not a university degree, a university transcript credit, or an HEC-recognised qualification, and it is not issued by COMSATS University Islamabad.
You may sit a course again. If the window passes, write and ask for a new start date.
Honesty is the one condition. The assignment must be your own work. Anything submitted as yours that is not ends the application.
PKR 500, a token, if you study or teach in a public school, college or university, and it is waived on request. PKR 5,000 for everyone else.

Certification is run by Dr. Nadir in his personal capacity through CourseMera, not on behalf of any university or employer.