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Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Lean Production Fundamentals
Lean Production is a proven approach to designing efficient, high-quality, and customer-focused processes. In this course, you will learn the fundamental principles, methods, and tools of Lean Production, with a strong focus on practical application and real-world relevance. The course introduces the Lean philosophy and its origins in the Toyota Production System, emphasizing value creation from the customer’s perspective. You will learn how to identify waste, distinguish value-adding from non-value-adding activities, and analyze processes using structured Lean thinking. Building on this foundation, the course covers key Lean concepts such as process flow, takt time, capacity, bottlenecks, and pull systems. You will learn to map and analyze processes, identify the process bottleneck and calculate resource utilization. You will investigate how variability affects systems, resulting in waiting times – even if enough capacity is available – and inventory build-up. Applicable to production or services, from banking to health care to hotel management to sales and marketing, this course helps you understand the fundamentals of Lean Production for application in any field.
Google Cloud
Form Parsing Using Document AI
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab you will gain hands-on experience using Document AI by parsing forms from within a Jupyter Notebook so that you can automatically extract information from digitally scanned paper forms.
Coursera
فهم مستخدم فيسبوك المعتدل
في هذه الدورة التدريبية القائمة على المشروع والتي تستغرق ساعة واحدة، ستتعرف على طرق متعددة لفهم مستخدم فيسبوك وكيفية الإستفادة منها لتطوير نشاطك التجاري. في نهاية هذه الدورة، ستصبح قادرا على الإطلاع على أحدث الإحصائيات حول طبيعة مستخدم فيسبوك، كما ستتمكن من مراقبة تفاعل جمهورك المستهدف ومعرفة اهتماماته عبر رؤى الصفحة التجارية الخاصة بك.
Coursera
Utiliza Microsoft OneNote para crear tus notas digitales
Al final de este proyecto, crearás una cuenta gratuita en Microsoft 365, obtendrás acceso a Microsoft OneNote, crearás un cuaderno con secciones y páginas, añadirás contenido como texto, imágenes, vídeos, enlaces, descargarás complementos e incluso explorar herramientas de accesibilidad y traducción. También aprenderás a compartir las notas creadas con otros.
Coursera
Align OKRs & Goals
Transform your strategic planning with Asana's powerful goal alignment capabilities. This Short Course was created to help project management professionals accomplish seamless OKR implementation and quarterly performance evaluation. By completing this course, you'll master the art of connecting high-level organizational objectives to actionable team deliverables, ensuring every project contributes meaningfully to company success. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Cascade company OKRs into team and project goals using Asana Goals - Link key deliverables to measurable objectives for progress tracking - Evaluate quarterly goal performance and adjust future objectives - Apply data-driven decision making to OKR refinement This course is unique because it combines strategic goal-setting theory with hands-on Asana implementation, giving you both the conceptual framework and practical tools to drive organizational alignment. To be successful in this project, you should have a background in basic project management and familiarity with Asana's core features.
Packt
Implementing Movement and Decision-Making Systems
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. Dive into the world of AI-driven vehicles and intelligent movement systems with this hands-on course. You will learn to program complex AI behaviors such as autonomous navigation, decision-making, and vehicle physics. The course covers topics like wheel physics, navigation meshes, finite state machines (FSMs), and autonomous movement patterns, empowering you to create dynamic, interactive agents that respond to their environment. The journey begins with vehicle physics, where you'll configure wheel colliders, apply forces, and set up a circuit with waypoints. Next, you’ll explore navigation meshes in Unity, optimizing AI movement through NavMesh agents and teaching characters how to follow and interact with players. The course also introduces the concept of finite state machines to structure your AI agents’ decision-making process, from patrolling to chasing and evading. This course is tailored for game developers looking to enhance their AI systems with advanced movement and decision-making capabilities. While it is ideal for intermediate learners, prior experience with Unity and basic programming concepts is recommended. By the end, you will have a deep understanding of how to implement autonomous agents in game environments and refine their behaviors for enhanced realism.
Coursera
Introduction to Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities
In this course, we enter the space of Prompt Injection Attacks, a critical concern for businesses utilizing Large Language Model systems in their AI applications. By exploring practical examples and real-world implications, such as potential data breaches, system malfunctions, and compromised user interactions, you will grasp the mechanics of these attacks and their potential impact on AI systems. As businesses increasingly rely on AI applications, understanding and mitigating Prompt Injection Attacks is essential for safeguarding data and ensuring operational continuity. This course empowers you to recognize vulnerabilities, assess risks, and implement effective countermeasures. This course is for anyone who wants to learn about Large Language Models and their susceptibility to attacks, such as AI Developers, Cybersecurity Professionals, Web Application Security Analysts, AI Enthusiasts. Learners should have knowledge of computers and their usage as part of a network, as well as familiarity with fundamental cybersecurity concepts, and proficiency in using command-line interfaces (CLI). Prior experience with programming languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.) is beneficial but not mandatory. By the end of this course, you will be equipped with actionable insights and strategies to protect your organization's AI systems from the ever-evolving threat landscape, making you an asset in today's AI-driven business environment.
Coursera
HubSpot: Working with a ticketing system
We will begin this guided project by understanding what Hubspot is. We will explore the contacts, conversation, marketing, sales & service sections of Hubspot. Then we will integrate Hubspot with Gmail and Calendar. In the final tasks, we will create a support ticket and explore the ticket flow from ticket creation to its closing This course will be helpful to you if you are a small business and want to track everything from sales to marketing to customer support to operations in one place. This project will be helpful to you no matter what department you are in: marketing, sales, service or admin. If you never used Hubspot and want to learn all about it, this course is for you. You will be taught everything you need to know about Hubspot. By the end of this project, you will be confident in navigating through Hubspot and working with the ticketing system in Hubspot. Note: You will need a website to register with Hubspot.
Coursera
Build Your First React Website (Part II)
This 1.5 hours guided project is part 2 of the project "Build Your First React Website." In this project, we focus on persistent states for class components and different strategies for them to communicate with each other. At the end of this course, you will be able to choose and deploy different communication strategies for communications among React components. This class requires basic React and intermediate to advance experiment in JavaScript development as a prerequisite.
University of California, Davis
Animation with JavaScript and jQuery
With the general introduction of JavaScript in the first course, this course will focus on JavaScript libraries, specifically jQuery. The scripts will be geared toward Document Object Model (DOM) manipulation. Learners will describe the top JavaScript libraries and differentiate which would work best to implement and accelerate development of web page animation. Course objectives include being introduced to the end product of the course – a landing page style website using jQuery elements to manipulate HTML documents and enhance user experience. Diving deeper into the landing page that will be created and break it out into individual jQuery projects. jQuery events and effects will be covered while exploring more jQuery’s relationship with HTML documents. Finally, a focus on plugins and continue to breakdown jQuery's ability to manipulate HTML and CSS.
University of Colorado Boulder
Design of High-Performance Optical Systems
This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5602, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes. This course extends what you have learned about first-order, paraxial system design and optical resolution and efficiency with the introduction to real lenses and their imperfections. We begin with a description of how different wavelengths propagate through systems, then move on to aberrations that appear with high angle, non-paraxial systems and how to correct for those problems. The course wraps up with a discussion of optical components beyond lenses and an excellent example of a high-performance optical system – the human eye. The mathematical tools required for analysis of high-performance systems are complicated enough that this course will rely more heavily on OpticStudio by Zemax. This will allow students to analyze systems that are too complicated for the simple analysis thus far introduced in this set of courses.
Coursera
Automate & Secure LLM Deployments
Every day, companies waste thousands of dollars on poorly deployed LLM applications—experiencing downtime, security breaches, and runaway costs that could have been prevented. This comprehensive course teaches you to build automated CI/CD pipelines specifically designed for LLM applications, implement enterprise-grade security controls, and optimize for scale and cost. Through hands-on labs based on real-world scenarios, you'll work with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud platforms to build production-ready systems. Each module includes practical exercises where you'll solve actual deployment challenges faced by companies scaling LLM applications. For DevOps, platform, and AI engineers deploying and operating large-scale LLM systems, with a focus on automation, security, cost optimization, and building reliable, high-performance AI platforms. Learners should have a basic understanding of Docker, APIs, and cloud platforms. Familiarity with CI/CD, Python, and basic security practices is helpful but not required. By course completion, you'll have deployed a secure, scalable LLM platform capable of handling millions of requests while maintaining 99.9% uptime. Perfect for DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and technical professionals ready to operationalize LLM applications.
Starweaver
Master Data Storytelling for B2B & B2C Sales
This course teaches you how to transform complex sales and marketing data into persuasive narratives that influence decisions and drive business growth. You’ll learn how to bridge the gap between analytics and storytelling, creating clear, visually engaging presentations that resonate with clients, executives, and teams. Topics include identifying trends in sales and customer data, designing impactful visuals, and building storytelling frameworks that strengthen sales strategies. Designed for sales professionals, business development executives, entrepreneurs, marketing leaders, and students aspiring to these roles, the course applies to both B2B and B2C contexts. No advanced technical skills are required, though familiarity with CRM platforms like HubSpot or Salesforce will enhance the learning experience. By the end, you’ll be able to use data storytelling to optimize sales performance, uncover growth opportunities, and build stronger customer relationships through insight-driven communication.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
中國人文經典導讀
本課程對象為對中國文化有興趣的同學。 課程目的為通過四個不同特色的主題，討論中國文化的四個主要面向。每個主題選取兩篇經典文本作為核心閱讀，並與延伸閱讀做互文探討，以新角度解讀經典文本的意義，展現中國文化的複雜性、多元性。文本難度與大學一年級國文程度相當。
Northeastern University
UX Web Design: Build User-Centric Websites
Welcome to UX Web Design: Build User-Centric Websites. Jumpstart your journey in UX design with this course, blending theory and practice to teach you the essentials. Learn key UX principles, align products with user needs, and dive into user research to craft intuitive and engaging digital experiences. Gain hands-on experience in creating wireframes and prototypes, using tools like Balsamiq to bring your designs to life. This course sets the foundation for anyone looking to create user-centered websites and apps, providing the skills needed to innovate and meet user expectations effectively.
Coursera
Optimizing AI System Operations and Costs
Optimize AI system operations through automation, cost management, and data governance for enterprise-scale efficiency. This course teaches you to automate maintenance workflows, analyze cloud spending, and implement systematic data governance to keep AI systems performing at peak efficiency while controlling costs. You will build self-healing playbooks with Ansible, create predictive cost models, and design automated data onboarding pipelines that ensure compliance with GDPR and industry regulations. Develop practical skills in incident management, financial modeling, and metadata analysis. By the end of this course, you will be able to automate operational workflows, optimize cloud spending, enforce compliant data practices, and demonstrate readiness for senior operations roles in AI-driven organizations.