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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Thermodynamique : applications
Ce cours complète le MOOC « Thermodynamique : fondements » qui vous permettra de mettre en application les concepts fondamentaux de la thermodynamique. Pour atteindre cet objectif, le Professeur J.-Ph. Ansermet de l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne s’est entouré d’experts et de spécialistes des différents domaines d’application provenant de diverses institutions partenaires du réseau RESCIF. Vous pourrez ainsi voir l’usage de la thermodynamique en chimie, en ingénierie et en physique. L’objectif du cours est la compréhension et la capacité de mise en application des concepts fondamentaux de la thermodynamique. Après la présentation du premier et deuxième principe de la thermodynamique, l’exposé abordera les questions d’irréversibilité ainsi que les potentiels thermodynamiques. Après l’établissement de ces bases conceptuelles qui font l’objet de la première partie, leurs applications à l’ingénierie tels que les transferts thermiques, la calorimétrie et les transitions de phases, seront traitées. Ensuite le point de vue de la chimie sera présenté pour aborder la conversion de l’énergie chimique en électricité. Finalement, des sujets plus avancés sont abordés, à savoir les cycles thermodynamiques, les machines thermiques, les concepts de thermodynamique adaptés au milieu continu et finalement les processus irréversibles. Le professeur J.-Ph. Ansermet qui est l’instigateur de ce cours est entouré d’experts et de spécialistes des différents domaines d’application, enseignant la thermodynamique dans diverses institutions partenaires du réseau RESCIF. Ce sont : le Professeur Michael Grätzel et le docteur Sylvain Brechet de l’EPFL, les Professeurs Paul Ekam, Théophile Mband, Marthe Boyomo et André Talla de l’ENSP de Yaoundé, le professeur Miltiadis Papalexandris de UCL à Louvain, le Professeur Etienne Robert du Polytechnique de Montréal et le Professeur Marwan Brouche de l’Université St-Joseph de Beyrouth.
Packt
APIs, Projects & Deployment
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this course, you'll learn to build RESTful APIs, handle GET, PATCH, and DELETE requests, and integrate Express routers for modular handling. You'll also create a social media app with both backend and frontend components, applying authentication and RESTful endpoints. You’ll start by mastering REST API basics and using POSTMAN for testing, then move on to building your own API with asynchronous functions. The course covers creating a social media app backend, using Git and GitHub for version control, and deploying your website live. Perfect for aspiring backend developers and those interested in API development and deployment, this course requires basic JavaScript knowledge. By the end, you will be able to design and deploy RESTful APIs, manage Git and GitHub, create social media apps, and host websites.
Northwestern University
Modern Robotics, Course 6: Capstone Project, Mobile Manipulation
The capstone project of the Modern Robotics specialization is on mobile manipulation: simultaneously controlling the motion of a wheeled mobile base and its robot arm to achieve a manipulation task. This project integrates several topics from the specialization, including trajectory planning, odometry for mobile robots, and feedback control. Beginning from the Modern Robotics software library provided to you (written in Python, Mathematica, and MATLAB), and software you have written for previous courses, you will develop software to plan and control the motion of a mobile manipulator to perform a pick and place task. You will test your software on the KUKA youBot, a mobile manipulator consisting of an omnidirectional mecanum-wheel mobile base, a 5-joint robot arm, and a gripper. The state-of-the-art, cross-platform V-REP robot simulator will be used to simulate the task.
Alfaisal University | KLD
نماذج إدارة العمليات | Operations Management Models
في ظل تسارع وتيرة التطور التكنولوجي وشدة المنافسة بين الشركات، تبرز الحاجة إلى إيجاد ميزة تنافسية (Competitive Advantage)، تضمن للشركة حصة سوقية (Market Share)مجزية. لذلك لجأت معظم الشركات إلى البحث عن طرق وأساليب لتطوير وتحسين منتجاتها أو خدماتها. ولتحقيق هذه الرغبة في التحسين والتطور لابد من معرفة ودراسة نماذج إدارة العمليات (Operations Management Models)، التي تعدّ من أهم المواضيع ذات الصلة بإدارة الشركات. هذه الدورة هي دورة تمهيدية؛ فهي تلقي الضوء على أساسيات الموضوع بشكل عام بهدف التعريف به وبمحاوره الأساسية التي يجب الإلمام بها. إذا كنت من المهتمين بنماذج إدارة العمليات، أو كان مجال عملك يتطلب توظيف ذلك في سياق عملك، فهذه الدورة ستكون مثالية لإغناء خبرتك وتطوير مهاراتك بشكل فعال ومؤثر. حيث ستزودك هذه الدورة باطلاع واسع ودقيق على مجموعة من المحاور المتعلقة بهذا الموضوع، مثل: التعرف على نموذج إدارة الجودة الشاملة، التعرف على نموذج سيكس سيجما، فهم نموذج الإنتاج في الوقت المناسب، التعرف على نموذج شجرة القرارات.
University of Cape Town
Financial Regulation in Emerging Markets and the Rise of Fintech Companies
This course explores the developments that have fueled the emergence of fintech companies around the world. Following the changing regulatory environment, especially since the 1997 Asian and 2008 global financial crisis, governments have enacted far-reaching new financial regulations for safeguarding financial stability. However, banks and financial institutions have found it increasingly difficult to be profitable in these new regulatory environments. Technology is taking leaps forward in artificial intelligence and blockchain and this has created new opportunities for fintech entrepreneurs. This course discusses fintech regulation using case studies from China and South Africa. The course pays special attention to the socioeconomic environment in emerging markets, as well as to political risk as a major source of uncertainty for fintech entrepreneurs. Peer-to-peer lending and remittances are used as leading examples for growing fintech innovation in emerging markets.
University of Colorado Boulder
Transforming Communities
Driving meaningful change in your organization requires more than internal alignment. It also depends on understanding the communities, networks, and systems your organization touches. This course equips business professionals with the tools and mindset to support change that is strategic, inclusive, and grounded in real-world context. You will explore practical methods for understanding local needs, identifying existing strengths, and working with stakeholders to co-create solutions. Topics include sustainability and resilience fundamentals, needs assessments, asset mapping, and applying systems thinking to support transitions inside and outside your organization. Whether you lead programs, manage partnerships, or support community engagement, this course helps you apply your skills in ways that strengthen relationships, uncover opportunities, and deliver value through shared outcomes. What You’ll Learn: - Lead change by aligning organizational goals with community needs and assets. - Apply systems thinking to guide strategic transitions across teams or regions. - Use asset mapping and needs assessments to surface opportunities and guide engagement. - Strengthen your ability to co-create solutions with stakeholders and partners.
University of Glasgow
Generative AI for Healthcare Students and Professionals
This course aims to provide healthcare students and professionals with a solid foundation of how generative AI is used in their sector adopting a balanced discourse of information. This will be achieved by using case studies that will analyse the current landscape of AI in different fields such as Higher Education, NHS, Public Health and Clinical Research. These case studies will be complemented by bioethics, confidentiality and humanistic perspectives of this technology. For a comprehensive, but yet concise, overview of the topic learners will also delve into the historical perspectives of AI. The course will conclude with final reflective thoughts on what the future might hold for healthcare in terms of utilising responsibly generative AI. As this is an introductory course on generative AI for healthcare, it will be targeted to students and qualified professionals who would like to learn more about this emerging technology in an easy-to-follow approach through the use of interactive case studies that will have real-world applications.
Coursera
Pinterest pour les débutants
À la fin de ce projet, vous aurez toutes les compétences de base pour utiliser la plateforme Pinterest. Vous serez en mesure de créer un compte Pinterest et de découvrir les différentes fonctionnalités qu’offre le site web. Ce projet vous permettra de débuter sur la plateforme Pinterest et de comprendre son utilité à travers plusieurs étapes que l’on verra ensemble. Ce projet est destiné à tous les niveaux mais surtout aux débutants et aux personnes qui aimeraient utiliser Pinterest pour la première fois. Il est idéal pour les personnes souhaitant promouvoir leurs marques. L’objectif est de vous permettre de comprendre comment utiliser Pinterest en détail.
Whizlabs
Power BI: Data Secure, Governance, and Workspace Management
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive foundation in Power Query and Power BI, equipping learners with the skills to transform, analyze, and visualize data efficiently. Participants will begin by exploring Power Query text and number functions, understanding key transformations such as formatting, merging, extracting, and statistical operations to structure raw data effectively. The course progresses to advanced data modeling in Power BI, covering essential techniques like fact and dimension tables, index columns, and custom column creation to optimize data relationships and queries. Learners will gain expertise in conditional column logic, row-level security, and workspace role management, ensuring controlled access and governance in Power BI environments. Additionally, this course covers dashboard and report creation, enabling participants to craft insightful visualizations with interactive elements. Features like Quick Insights, Semantic Model Modes, and configuration settings are explored to enhance analytical capabilities. This course is structured into multiple modules, each featuring lessons and video lectures that provide both theoretical understanding and hands-on practice. Participants will engage with approximately 3:00–4:00 hours of instructional content, reinforcing learning through graded and ungraded assignments, ensuring real-world applicability. Module 1 - Power BI: Power Query Editor with Functions and Columns Module 2 - Power BI: Governance and Semantic Model Management Whether you're preparing for Power BI certification or seeking to optimize business intelligence workflows, this course equips you with the essential skills to master Power Query and Power BI for effective data analysis and visualization. The course is for Power BI Security Analysts, Power BI Data Associates, Data Security Associates and Workspace Managers
Google Cloud
Gemini for Network Engineers - 繁體中文
本課程介紹的 Gemini 是採用生成式 AI 技術的協作工具，可協助網路工程師建立、更新及維護虛擬私有雲網路。您將瞭解如何透過提示讓 Gemini 為網路工作提供指引，獲得比搜尋結果更具體的資訊。在實作研究室中，您也會體驗到 Gemini 如何簡化 Google Cloud 虛擬私有雲網路的作業。 Duet AI 已更名為 Gemini，這是我們的新一代模型。
Google
Les outils du métier : Linux et SQL
Voici le quatrième cours de la Certification en cybersécurité de Google. Ces cours vous permettront d'acquérir les compétences dont vous avez besoin pour postuler à un emploi de niveau débutant dans le domaine de la cybersécurité. Vous vous appuierez sur votre compréhension des sujets qui ont été introduits dans le troisième cours de la Certification en cybersécurité de Google. Dans ce cours, vous découvrirez les compétences informatiques que vous utiliserez sur le terrain en tant qu'analyste cybersécurité. Tout d'abord, vous vous entraînerez à utiliser Linux, un système d'exploitation couramment utilisé par les professionnels de la cybersécurité. Par exemple, vous utiliserez la ligne de commande Linux via l'interpréteur de commandes Bash pour naviguer au sein d'un système de fichiers, le gérer, et authentifier les utilisateurs. Ensuite, vous utiliserez SQL pour communiquer avec une base de données. Les employés de Google qui travaillent actuellement dans le domaine de la cybersécurité vous guideront à travers des vidéos, des activités pratiques et des exemples qui simulent des tâches courantes de cybersécurité, et vous aideront à développer vos compétences pour vous préparer à l'emploi. Les participants qui termineront cette certification seront aptes à postuler à des emplois de niveau débutant dans le domaine de la cybersécurité. Aucune expérience préalable n'est nécessaire.
Coursera
Event Video & Social Media Experience Design in Canva
Event Video & Social Media Experience Design in Canva prepares learners to create a complete event content lifecycle—before, during, and after an event—through integrated video and social media design. The course begins with pre-event promotion, guiding learners in designing announcement videos, countdown posts, and promotional campaigns that build anticipation and drive registrations. It then transitions to live event coverage, where participants develop branded video capture templates, real-time social media updates, and interactive engagement assets such as polls and Q&A templates. Finally, the course focuses on post-event strategies, including highlight videos, testimonial campaigns, and interactive recaps that extend the event’s impact and foster ongoing audience engagement. Using Canva’s accessible video and design tools, learners build a cohesive event marketing package that unifies branding and storytelling across multiple platforms. The final deliverable is a professional event experience toolkit, showcasing mastery in video design, social content creation, and event-driven marketing strategy.
Scrimba
API Basics 1: Build a Bot (Fetch, JSON & Async JavaScript)
This course is your gateway to mastering APIs! It breaks down the essentials of how APIs work, how they interact with clients and servers, and how you can use them to fetch and display data in your web applications using JavaScript. You'll learn the technical concepts and get hands-on practice by building a fun, interactive project - the BoredBot! As well as programming your bot to fetch random activity suggestions from the Bored API, you will also structure it using HTML and style it with CSS. Along the way, you'll ensure the bot is accessible and user-friendly. By the end, you'll have a solid understanding of APIs, asynchronous JavaScript, and fetch, and real-world project experience that will demonstrate your skills to potential employers or clients.
Packt
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Advanced Python Topics
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Master advanced Python topics by diving deep into object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts such as classes, methods, inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation. You’ll gain a strong foundation in Python’s advanced features including decorators, generators, magic methods, and working with databases. This course will help you improve the efficiency and structure of your Python code, providing hands-on experience in solving real-world programming challenges. Throughout the course, you’ll explore each advanced topic step by step, starting with the fundamentals of OOP and progressing to complex applications. You'll learn how to implement Python’s powerful features, such as decorators for function modifications and generators for memory-efficient loops. We’ll also explore classes and objects, the heart of OOP, showing how inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism work together. Additionally, you'll tackle database management using SQLite and learn how to handle files, including CSVs and zip archives. This course is perfect for intermediate Python learners who want to elevate their programming skills and work with real-world applications. You'll engage with practical examples and exercises, such as creating a forum, managing users, and utilizing databases. By the end of this course, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of advanced Python techniques and the confidence to apply them to professional software projects.
Wesleyan University
Creative Writing: The Craft of Style
Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language. We will study the use of metaphor and imagery, and demonstrate how clarity, grace, and inventiveness in word choice are imperative to a story’s success. Writers will emerge with the revision skills essential to all writers of good stories and good prose.
Board Infinity
Machine Learning Fundamentals for Java Developers
Course Description Master the fundamentals of machine learning using Java in this hands-on course tailored for developers. You’ll use tools like Weka, Smile, and Deeplearning4j to implement ML techniques including regression, classification, and clustering while strengthening your Java skills. In the first module, you’ll get introduced to core machine learning concepts, explore widely-used Java libraries, and understand the full ML workflow from data to model evaluation. The second module focuses on supervised learning. You'll implement regression, logistic regression, and decision trees in Java with step-by-step guidance. In the third module, you’ll dive into unsupervised learning—learning how to use K-Means clustering and apply dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA. The final module brings everything together through end-to-end projects, including data preprocessing, model training, cross-validation, debugging, and deploying your ML models. By the end, you will: -Understand and apply core ML techniques using Java libraries -Apply supervised and unsupervised learning techniques such as regression, classification, and clustering. -Create end-to-end ML workflows in Java, including data preprocessing, model training, and performance evaluation. This course is ideal for: -Java developers who want to transition into machine learning without switching to Python -Software engineers and backend developers looking to add ML capabilities to their Java-based applications -Students or professionals in computer science with basic Java skills who want to explore ML with hands-on implementation -Tech professionals preparing for roles in AI/ML, data science, or intelligent systems where Java is part of the stack" Disclaimer: This course is an independent educational resource developed by Board Infinity and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially associated with Oracle Corporation or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. This course is not an official preparation material of Oracle Corporation. All trademarks, service marks, and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.