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Coursera
Facebook Content Creation Essentials
Creating content that stands out on Facebook requires a mix of compelling writing, eye-catching visuals, and engaging videos. In this course, you’ll develop the essential skills to craft posts that capture attention, drive engagement, and resonate with your audience. You’ll start by mastering the art of writing effective Facebook posts, learning how to structure content for maximum impact and leverage AI tools for ideation. Next, you’ll explore visual storytelling, using photos, graphics, and design techniques to enhance your content. Finally, you’ll dive into video creation, discovering how to plan, shoot, and edit engaging videos optimized for Facebook Watch. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Create engaging written posts optimized for Facebook's Feed - Produce visually compelling photo and graphic content - Develop effective video content for Facebook Watch - Create engaging content with Facebook's powerful tools
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
New Fermentation Markets and How They Scale
Discover how fermentation is transforming industries and driving a sustainable future. This course begins by exploring the evolution of fermentation—from ancient food traditions to modern precision techniques—and why it matters today. You’ll dive into the science behind fermentation, including microbes, synthetic biology, and feedstocks, before examining the innovative products shaping global markets in food, beauty, and industrial materials. Finally, you’ll tackle one of the biggest challenges: scaling fermentation from lab to commercial production. This course is part of the College of ACES suite of online programs and is supported by the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Lab (IBRL), a pilot plant facility focused on bioprocessing technologies located at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The IBRL was built with the needs of industry projects and customers in mind, supporting over 1,000 scale-up projects for our clients since opening in 2018. Learn more about online programs from the College of ACES: https://acesonline.illinois.edu Learn more about IBRL: https://ibrl.aces.illinois.edu
Coursera
First Steps in Easil
By the end of this project, you will have learned how to use Easil to promote and advertise your business. Today, you will create simple projects using the free version of Easil. We will both use templates, and create designs from scratch. Easil is a web based all-in-one tool that helps you create visual content online. Learners can easily create and implement creative edits with online design tools to use when marketing their business. We can use Easil to complete this project because it provides all the tools you need to create an organized and visually appealing product while offering a variety of options for sharing and collaboration.
Packt
The Absolute Beginners Guide to Cyber Security - Part 4
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 will dive into the core aspects of cybersecurity that are essential to protecting yourself online. From understanding internet privacy tools to safeguarding your personal data, you will gain crucial skills to prevent cyber threats and protect your information. You will explore browser security, VPNs, password management, and how to protect yourself against fraud, phishing, and hacking attempts. Learn about social media and email security, including how to secure your Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter accounts. Additionally, the course provides an in-depth look at mobile security, including managing app permissions and identifying legitimate apps. The course follows a clear and structured flow, beginning with personal cybersecurity practices that you can implement immediately. The journey then takes you through securing your internet browsing, social media accounts, and mobile devices, covering a wide array of practical skills to keep your digital life safe. The final section helps you understand what to do if you have been hacked, ensuring you're equipped to respond effectively. This course is perfect for anyone looking to develop fundamental cybersecurity knowledge. Whether you are a beginner or someone wanting to secure your online presence, this course offers step-by-step guidance. No prior technical experience is required, but a basic understanding of digital tools will be helpful. By the end of the course, you will be able to secure your personal and online data effectively, navigate social media securely, manage your passwords, use VPNs, and ensure the safety of your mobile devices.
Novartis
Introduction to Drug Hunting
This course introduces and summarizes the different steps of preclinical drug discovery, wrapping up with a brief description of the subsequent clinical trials and the importance of competitive intelligence in project strategy. It provides a high-level overview for those interested in a more general understanding of the topic and forms the foundation for a more in-depth exploration of topics covered in other courses in this series. Target audience: This course is suitable for life scientists, clinicians, and individuals from fields that support drug discovery (e.g., patents, finance, licensing, etc.) interested in learning more about the pharmaceutical/biotechnology sector. Advanced undergraduate coursework or practical familiarity/working knowledge in biological sciences and organic chemistry is recommended.
Packt
Presentation Skills with Story Telling
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. Mastering the art of effective presentations can significantly boost your communication skills. In this course, you'll learn the essential techniques to confidently present ideas, structure your message, and captivate your audience. With a combination of practical tips and expert insights, you’ll develop the skills to present powerfully and persuasively. The course begins by focusing on presentation skills, addressing how to reduce jitters, structure your message, and design visually compelling slides. You'll also learn to engage with your audience, overcome nerves, and develop a confident presentation style. We delve into the art of structuring your presentation and how to deliver it with the right flow, keeping your audience hooked from start to finish. The second part of the course introduces storytelling for business. You'll discover how to craft compelling stories that resonate with your audience. Learn the strategies that professional storytellers use to engage and captivate listeners, and understand why storytelling is an essential skill in business communication. This section also offers a practical model for structuring your own impactful stories. This course is ideal for business professionals, managers, marketers, and anyone who wants to improve their presentation and storytelling abilities. Whether you're delivering a pitch, leading a meeting, or speaking at a conference, this course will equip you with the skills you need to communicate effectively. There are no specific prerequisites, but a basic understanding of presentation tools is helpful.
EDUCBA
Master Bond Accounting: Analyze, Value & Apply IFRS
By the end of this course, learners will be able to explain core bond terminology, analyze interest structures, calculate bond prices using present value, apply premium and discount amortization, and evaluate IFRS requirements for financial instruments. These skills prepare learners to confidently interpret and record bond-related transactions in real-world accounting environments. This course provides a step-by-step progression from foundational concepts to advanced valuation and IFRS reporting techniques. Learners first explore how bonds function, how coupon structures influence interest flows, and why present value is essential for accurate measurement. They then apply these concepts using both straight-line and effective interest rate methods, interpreting their impact on carrying amount and interest expense. The course concludes with practical corporate examples and clear IFRS alignment, helping learners bridge theory with professional application. What makes this course unique is its deep integration of conceptual clarity, quantitative techniques, and global reporting standards, supported by real-world scenarios and structured explanations that demystify complex bond accounting topics. Whether preparing for advanced studies or strengthening professional expertise, learners gain practical, industry-relevant skills essential for modern financial reporting.
Michigan State University
Write Your First Novel
WRITE YOUR FIRST NOVEL From Inc.com - The 30 Most Popular Online Courses of 2020 "Write Your First Novel" made the list at #15 https://lnkd.in/gZqscmn If you’ve ever had the dream, the desire or even just a vague notion that you would like to write a novel, this course is for you. Whether you are a full-time student, have a full-time job, a family to take care of or all of the above, you can do it. Really! And I will help you get there. In this Course, you will write your first novel. Many people say they have often thought about writing a novel and are planning to do it someday, but very few ever actually do. However, in this course, you will do it. You will learn how to form a basic idea, any idea, into a structure and discipline that will allow you to create, write and complete a fully-realized novel ready to submit for publication. If you have any concerns regarding the protection of your original work, Coursera's privacy policy protects the learner's IP and you are indeed the sole owners of your work. Here is a link to a trailer for the course. To view the trailer, please copy and paste the link into your browser. https://vimeo.com/385761391/c5e7f873cf Learner review: "It was a great experience, I really enjoyed it." In Write Your First Novel, you’ll learn to break down your creative endeavor into components and you’ll discover a process that will allow you to do what few have done: produce and complete a full-length work of fiction in the form of a 50,000-word novel. Learner Review: "You teach storytelling like no other teacher. I cannot put in words how much I appreciate it. This daily writing, and the product that comes with it, have been a great mental support during the pandemic time. Art is a support for life, as Stephen King said, and thanks to you I experienced it first-hand during this time. I think I will keep writing 500 words per night for the rest of my life. I owe it to you. You taught me how to write a novel, and it works every time. Huge thanks, and wishing you all the best." I am a proponent of experiential learning (also known as active learning). My lectures are short and to the point, designed in a step-by-step process essential to your success as a writer. I will guide you, I will show you how to get there, hopefully I will inspire you. You will learn through your own activity - which is writing! I firmly believe that the only way to become a writer is to write, write, write! Learner review: "As a published author, I took this course to relearn the skills. I thoroughly enjoyed each and every lecture and quiz. This course was very, very helpful and the videos were very well executed. Cheers!" Writing fiction is a truly beautiful thing. Putting your own words on a page to tell a story which enters your readers minds and allows them to share the thoughts, emotions and lives of your characters is a very satisfying, rewarding experience. Learner review: "BEST TEACHER EVER! LOVE THE COURSE."
Amazon Web Services
AWS Elemental Live Foundations
This training provides an introduction to AWS Elemental Live, a video processing solution that efficiently formats live video for broadcast television and streaming to internet-connected devices.
Coursera
Change Leadership: Strategic Route Analysis with Miro
By the end of this guided project, you will be fluent in creating a change implementation model using Route Analysis for a hands-on example. This will equip you with a systemic implementation framework for change that can be utilised in professional and personal life. Change happens all the time, and in being able to identify factors involved in change and developing a model for how to implement change you increase your chances for success. This analysis will help you if you are in: + Strategy development + Program Management + Project Management + Business Process Re-Engineering + Product Development + Organisational Development Furthermore, this guided project is designed to engage and harness your visionary and exploratory abilities. You will use proven models in change management with Miro to develop your change leadership skills for various settings.
Coursera
Public Speaking with Canva
By the end of this project, you will explore Public Speaking using Canva to create a structure for an efficient speech to present your projects or ideas. You’ll be able to explore models and structure to feel confident in your public speaking competence and implement those skills in your life during dissertations, while pitching to your clients or while performing a TED talk, why not. Public speaking has traditionally meant the act of speaking face to face to a live audience but today includes any form of speaking to an audience, including pre-recorded speech delivered over great distance by means of technology. Nowadays public speaking has been transformed by newly available technology such as videoconferencing, multimedia presentations, and other nontraditional forms, but the essentials remain the same. Being used for many different purposes, usually it crosses teaching, persuasion or entertaining, there are different approaches and techniques related on how to master public speaking. Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create visual contents such as social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents...The users can create their own graphic or choose from many templates ready to use. The platform is free to use with optional paid subscriptions for additional functionality. This guided project is for students, graphic designers, or the general public who are familiar with Canva and want to explore its tools to create a speech structure while improving their knowledge on public speaking.
University of Lausanne
Ecologie Politique: défi de la durabilité pour les démocraties
De quoi parle-t-on lorsque l’on parle d’environnement ? Existe-t-il une crise écologique ? L’environnement se résume-t-il à la pollution ? Est-on vraiment fondé à parler de risques environnementaux ? L’environnement a-t-il affaire à la politique et si oui pourquoi ? Pourquoi et à partir de quand a-t-on pu parler d’écologie politique ? Quelles en sont les différentes expressions ? Les démocraties et leurs expressions courantes ne suffisent-elles pas à répondre aux problèmes écologiques ? Et si ce n’est pas le cas, quels sont les apports éventuels et potentiels de l’écologie politique ? Ce cours se propose à répondre à ces questions, l’objectif global étant de comprendre les tenants et aboutissants de l’interface écologie et politique. Objectifs pédagogiques du cours : 1. Situer dans l’histoire des idées et de la société ce qu’on entend par écologie politique 2. Maîtriser le lexique de l’écologie et de l’écologie politique 3. Analyser le caractère alternatif des courants de l’écologie politique en se situant dans le mouvement des idées et non sur la scène politicienne 4. Identifier les différents courants et leurs approches 5. Situer de manière critique les réponses que propose l’écologie politique aux difficultés qu’elle pointe 6. Expliquer les fondements de la démocratie et les nouveaux enjeux qu’elle traverse
The State University of New York
Digital Information Literacy
A Digital Artifact is an object that represents one’s learning. In today’s changing educational landscape, more courses call for a visual item as opposed to a “traditional” assignment or project. There is a multitude of free tools and software at our fingertips. This online course will provide tips, suggestions, and strategies for creating an interesting digital artifact in select, intuitive platforms. In this course, you will learn to identify and define a Digital Artifact so you may create an infographic, slide show, website, or video. You will also learn best practices in digital media design and about Creative Commons licensing and citing your sources. Assessments will conclude each learning module to gauge your understanding as will peer-reviewed assignments to foster a sense of community through learning. There are no prerequisites for this course however, taking Advanced Information Literacy prior will scaffold skills that will augment your understanding of the benchmarks in this digital literacy course. In addition to earning a certificate from Coursera for this course, you'll also receive a Micro-Credential Digital Badge from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York recognizing your accomplishment. Use your verified digital badge to promote your achievement online, and access job insights related to your new skills. Upon completion of each individual course and the complete Specialization, you will receive an email from Coursera with directions on how to claim your badge. Payment or participation through an official Coursera promotional offer is required to have full access to the course and to qualify for the Coursera Certificate and Digital Badge.
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Cost Accounting: Decision Making
In the third course, you will learn how to use information from cost accounting to improve managerial decision-making. We discuss business decisions and suggest how cost information can support them best. For example, how will costs change if managers adjust cost drivers? How many units do companies need to sell in order to avoid losses or to achieve a targeted profit? How can managers improve pricing or product programs with information from cost accounting?
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Assessment for Learning
For several decades now, assessment has become an increasingly pressing educational priority. Teacher and school accountability systems have come to be based on analysis of large-scale, standardized summative assessments. As a consequence, assessment now dominates most conversations about reform, particularly as a measure of teacher and school accountability for learner performance. Behind the often heated and at times ideologically gridlocked debate is a genuine challenge to address gaps in achievement between different demographically identifiable groups of students. There is an urgent need to lift whole communities and cohorts of students out of cycles of underachievement. For better or for worse, testing and public reporting of achievement is seen to be one of the few tools capable of clearly informing public policy makers and communities alike about how their resources are being used to expand the life opportunities for their children. This course is an overview of current debates about testing, and analyses the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of approaches to assessment. The course also focuses on the use of assessment technologies in learning. It will explore recent advances in computer adaptive and diagnostic testing, the use of natural language processing technologies in assessments, and embedded formative assessments in digital and online curricula. Other topics include the use of data mining, learning analytics and artificial intelligence in learning management systems and educational technology platforms. Participants will be required to consider issues of data access, privacy and the challenges raised by ‘big data’ including data persistency and student profiling. -------------------------------- Recommended Background -------------------------------- This course is designed for people interested in the future of education and the "learning society," including people who may wish to join education as a profession, practicing teachers interested in exploring future directions for a vocation that is currently undergoing transformation, and community and workplace leaders who regard their mission to be in part "educative." -------------------------------- Related Resources -------------------------------- Online resources are available here: https://newlearningonline.com -------------------------------- Join our Online Communities! -------------------------------- CGScholar (Create an account and join the New Learning community) https://cgscholar.com/community/community_profiles/new-learning/community_updates Facebook https://www.facebook.com/newlearningonline Twitter https://twitter.com/neolearning -------------------------------- Take this Course for Credit at the University of Illinois -------------------------------- This course has the same content and anticipates the same level of contribution by students in the Assessment for Learning course offered to graduate certificate, masters, and doctoral level students in the Learning Design and Leadership Program in the College of Education at the University of Illinois. Of course, in the nature of MOOCs many people will just want to view the videos and casually join some of the discussions. Some people say that these limited kinds of participation offer evidence that MOOCs suffer from low retention rates. Far from it – we say that any level of engagement is good engagement. On the other hand, if you would like to take this course for credit at the University of Illinois, you will find more information about our program here: https://ldlprogram.web.illinois.edu/overview/ And you can apply here: https://education.illinois.edu/epol/programs-degrees/ldl -------------------------------- The Learning Design and Leadership Series of MOOCs -------------------------------- This course is one of a series of eight MOOCs created by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis for the Learning Design and Leadership program at the University of Illinois. If you find this MOOC helpful, please join us in others! e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age https://www.coursera.org/learn/elearning New Learning: Principles and Patterns of Pedagogy https://www.coursera.org/learn/newlearning Assessment for Learning https://www.coursera.org/learn/assessmentforlearning Learning, Knowledge, and Human Development https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-knowledge-human-development Ubiquitous Learning and Instructional Technologies https://www.coursera.org/learn/ubiquitouslearning Negotiating Learner Differences: Towards Productive Diversity in Learning https://www.coursera.org/learn/learnerdifferences Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies https://www.coursera.org/learn/literacy-teaching-learning Multimodal Literacies: Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media https://www.coursera.org/learn/multimodal-literacies
LearnKartS
Salesforce Lightning App Builder
Want to create sophisticated, user-centric Salesforce apps without writing code? This comprehensive Lightning App Builder course teaches you how to use Salesforce's declarative tools to create, build, and optimize bespoke applications. It is great for professionals wishing to expand their app development skills because it is aligned with the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder certification. You will learn how to use the App Builder UI, construct custom and dynamic Lightning Pages, and integrate standard, custom, and AppExchange components. Learn how to use component visibility filters, dynamic interactions, and page activation in multiple apps and profiles. You'll also learn about flexipage information, custom templates, and how to use Lightning Web Components (LWC) to improve modular design. This Coursera Salesforce Platform App Builder course provides a realistic, end-to-end app-building experience through videos, demos, readings, and knowledge assessments. By the end, you'll be equipped to design high-performance, personalized Lightning apps. Enroll now to bring your Salesforce vision to reality. Disclaimer: Salesforce, Lightning, and related marks are trademarks of Salesforce, Inc. This course is not affiliated with or endorsed by Salesforce.