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Coursera
Flow Forward: Mastering User Journeys & Wireframing in Figma
In this course, you'll dive into the critical process of translating user journeys into functional wireframes using Figma. We'll demystify the concepts behind user flow design and low-fidelity wireframing, exploring how to bridge the gap between user needs and interface structure. You'll gain a clear understanding of how user journeys inform wireframe creation, from mapping user paths to developing structural design solutions. You'll be introduced to the specific capabilities of Figma for creating detailed user flows and comprehensive wireframes within the UX design ecosystem. We'll showcase how Figma harnesses the power of design to revolutionize your productivity when developing user-centered interface structures. From analyzing user journey touchpoints to building wireframe, you'll discover the myriad ways Figma can enhance your user flow and wireframing workflow. By the end of this course, you'll be able to: - Map comprehensive user journeys that inform design decisions. - Create detailed user flows using Figma's design and prototyping tools. - Develop low-fidelity wireframes that align with user journey requirements.
Google Cloud
BigLake: Qwik Start
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you will learn how to implement BigLake tables.
University of Colorado Boulder
Introduction to Machine Learning: Supervised Learning
Introduction to Machine Learning: Supervised Learning offers a clear, practical introduction to how machines learn from labeled data to make predictions and decisions. You’ll build a strong foundation in regression and classification, starting with linear and logistic regression and progressing to resampling, regularization, and tree-based ensemble methods. Along the way, you’ll learn how to evaluate models, manage bias–variance trade-offs, and balance interpretability with predictive power, all while working hands-on in Python. By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills and intuition needed to confidently apply supervised learning techniques to real-world problems. This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Masters of Science in Computer Science (MS-CS), Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MS-AI), and Master of Science in Data Science (MS-DS) degrees offered on the Coursera platform. These fully accredited graduate degrees offer targeted courses, short 8-week sessions, and pay-as-you-go tuition. Admission is based on performance in three preliminary courses, not academic history. CU degrees on Coursera are ideal for recent graduates or working professionals. Learn more: MS in Artificial Intelligence: https://www.coursera.org/degrees/ms-artificial-intelligence-boulder MS in Computer Science: https://coursera.org/degrees/ms-computer-science-boulder MS in Data Science: https://www.coursera.org/degrees/master-of-science-data-science-boulder
University of Virginia
Foundations of Diversity and Inclusion at Work TeachOut
The summer of 2020 has brought issues of equity and race to the forefront of society. How do we create tolerant and just climates at work? Changing the culture of an organization is challenging in the best of circumstances; today, it can seem impossible. Yet, it is more necessary and urgent than ever to address these issues thoughtfully and with effective practices that can produce real change. Six Darden professors have designed this teach-out to bring you the latest scholarship and best practices on diversity, equity and inclusion and organizational change. You'll learn how to identify and counteract inequity in organizations, how to build the business case for diversity and inclusion, and how managers can constructively address inequity. You'll also learn how to promote the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion at work, how to have difficult conversations, and how to manage and lead change.
Coursera
Introduction to Carbon Reduction and Net Zero
This course offers an engaging and easy-to-follow exploration of reducing carbon emissions and achieving net zero. It’s perfect for those passionate about sustainability, especially sustainability professionals looking to minimize environmental impact through their work. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of climate change science and the major sources of carbon emissions. The course covers a variety of strategies to reduce carbon emissions, including renewable energy solutions, energy efficiency improvements, and innovative carbon capture technologies. This course is designed for Environmental Advocates, Sustainability Professionals, Educators, and environmentally committed enthusiasts. Whether you are actively working in the field of sustainability or have a deep personal commitment to environmental conservation, this course will provide valuable insights and practical skills to further your impact. Participants should have an interest in sustainable practices and environmental conservation. While no specific prior knowledge is required, a passion for understanding and addressing climate change is essential to fully benefit from the course content and activities. By the end of the course, participants will be able to analyze the fundamentals of climate change and its impact on the environment. They will explore and evaluate various carbon reduction technologies and strategies, gaining the ability to implement these measures on both personal and organizational levels. Additionally, participants will develop a sustainability mindset and advocate for environmental stewardship, driving action and innovation towards a sustainable future.
University of Colorado Boulder
Resampling, Selection and Splines
"Statistical Learning for Data Science" is an advanced course designed to equip working professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in the field of data science. Through comprehensive instruction on key topics such as shrink methods, parametric regression analysis, generalized linear models, and general additive models, students will learn how to apply resampling methods to gain additional information about fitted models, optimize fitting procedures to improve prediction accuracy and interpretability, and identify the benefits and approach of non-linear models. This course is the perfect choice for anyone looking to upskill or transition to a career in data science. This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Data Science (MS-DS) degree offered on the Coursera platform. The MS-DS is an interdisciplinary degree that brings together faculty from CU Boulder’s departments of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Science, and others. With performance-based admissions and no application process, the MS-DS is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience in computer science, information science, mathematics, and statistics. Learn more about the MS-DS program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/master-of-science-data-science-boulder.
Pearson
Cisco Certified Support Technician IT Support 100-140 Unit 6
This course provides a thorough foundation in networking concepts, including LAN, WAN, WLAN, and both IPv4 and IPv6 addressing. You’ll master the setup and management of network devices, firewalls, DNS, and DHCP, ensuring seamless connectivity and robust security for any environment. The course also covers user and resource management, teaching you how to implement directory services like Active Directory and cloud platforms, configure group policies, and manage shared drives and cloud storage. You’ll gain practical skills in password management, multi-factor authentication, and verifying permissions to safeguard sensitive data. Hands-on lessons guide you through troubleshooting connectivity issues using essential commands and tools across Windows and Mac systems. By the end of this module, you’ll be equipped to support users, secure networks, and manage resources with confidence.
Packt
Interactive Web Content Using AJAX and JSON in JavaScript
Updated in May 2025. This course now 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. Unlock the full potential of JavaScript by mastering AJAX and JSON, the core technologies behind dynamic web content. This course begins with an introduction to AJAX and JSON, where you will gain a foundational understanding of how these technologies work in tandem to update web pages asynchronously. You’ll start by setting up your development environment, learning about JavaScript objects, and exploring how JSON structures data. With hands-on examples, you will transform your knowledge into practical skills, creating responsive web applications that engage users in real-time. As the course progresses, you will dive deeper into connecting your JavaScript code with external APIs. You'll learn to fetch, manipulate, and display data seamlessly from working with popular web APIs like RandomUser and GitHub to using JSON placeholder services. The focus will be applying AJAX to handle requests and responses effectively, ensuring your applications can communicate smoothly with servers. By engaging with real-world examples, you will develop the competence to integrate complex data sets into your web projects effortlessly. The course culminates with advanced coding examples that reinforce the concepts learned. Through practice, you’ll become proficient in using JavaScript array methods, the Fetch API, and DOM manipulation to enhance user interaction on your websites. Whether you're building a personal project or aiming to advance your career, this course equips you with the tools and knowledge to create interactive, data-driven web applications with confidence. This course is designed for web developers who have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is ideal for those looking to expand their skills in front-end development by learning how to implement AJAX and JSON for dynamic web content. No prior experience with APIs is required.
Coursera
Manager of Managers: Performance Management and Metrics
Mastering Performance Management: Metrics is an intermediate-level course designed for managers, HR professionals, and organizational leaders who want to transform how their teams perform and achieve results. In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional performance management approaches are failing to drive the outcomes organizations need. This course equips learners with the knowledge and tools to design, implement, and optimize performance management systems that create real value for both individuals and organizations. Through practical frameworks, real-world case studies, and hands-on applications, learners will discover how to align individual performance with strategic objectives, leverage analytics for data-driven insights, and create feedback cultures that drive continuous improvement. The course combines theoretical foundations with practical implementation strategies, ensuring learners can immediately apply their learning to create performance management systems that actually work.
Coursera
Social Listening
This course provides an in-depth understanding of how to leverage social listening to enhance customer engagement. It covers the foundational concepts and frameworks of social listening, its specific applications, real-world examples, and concrete skills and competencies. It aims to equip learners with the ability to effectively use social listening to manage their online reputation. By exploring the foundational concepts and frameworks of social listening, participants will gain insight into the powerful impact of monitoring and analyzing online conversations. The course will reveal how social listening can transform mere data into strategic insight, enabling companies to proactively engage with their audience, anticipate market trends, and manage their brand reputation more effectively. The course also looks at the strategic aspects of social listening - crafting actionable strategies from data, using analytical skills to interpret information, and making decisions that align with business goals. Whether you're a marketing professional, a business owner, or a communications expert, this course will give you a grounding in using social listening as a tool to boost your organization's online presence and customer interaction. This course is ideal for Marketing Managers, Social Media Managers, Brand Managers, Public Relations Executives, and Business Owners, providing them with the skills to leverage social listening for enhanced customer engagement and strategic decision-making. A basic understanding of business and business practices will be helpful, as well as some knowledge of social media, online marketing concepts, and reputation management, but this is not mandatory. An open mind and curiosity regarding the subject matter is all that is needed. By the end of this course, participants will be able to describe the role of social listening in customer engagement, list various social listening tools and their uses, develop effective social listening strategies, and apply these strategies to real-world scenarios.
Packt
Advanced Backup Management and Recovery Scenarios
Updated in May 2025. This course now 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. Gain expertise in advanced backup and recovery strategies with this course designed to equip you with critical skills. You will learn to manage RMAN recovery catalogs, implement secure encryption methods, optimize backup plans with RPO and RTO strategies, and perform advanced recovery scenarios, including point-in-time recovery (PITR), cross-platform data transport, and handling corrupted blocks. The course begins by delving into the management of RMAN recovery catalogs, teaching you how to create, synchronize, and manage recovery repositories. Next, you’ll explore secure backup methods, including transparent encryption, password-based keystore, and dual-mode encryption, ensuring your backups remain robust and secure. As you progress, you'll learn best practices for database backups, including how to define effective Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). Advanced recovery techniques will also be covered, such as point-in-time recovery (PITR), restoring control files and server parameter files (SPFILE), and handling redo log losses. Designed for database administrators and IT professionals, this course is ideal for those with prior RMAN and database management experience. Its advanced focus provides valuable insights and hands-on experience to tackle even the most complex database recovery challenges.
Macquarie University
Online teaching: Using Zoom to connect with learners
Online teaching requires confidence in virtual platforms. This course helps educators and teachers design and deliver engaging live Zoom classes. You will learn to use Zoom's class management tools, breakout rooms, chat, screen-sharing, and poll functions with practical examples. Develop and create your own Zoom lesson plan. This course suits anyone designing or delivering synchronous online Zoom classes. By the end, you will: 1. Understand basic Zoom functions. 2. Apply Zoom class management tools. 3. Deliver engaging live online activities. 4. Create a Zoom lesson plan.
Università Bocconi
Food & Beverage Management
Managing a company in the food and beverage industry is a fascinating task. Food and beverage products are so deeply rooted in the culture of most countries that making and selling them is not only a matter of making and selling good and tasty products, but products that nurture people's body, soul, and heart. Given this, it's not difficult to see that the task quickly becomes complex. The objective of this course is twofold: first, we will focus on contemporary challenges that managers and entrepreneurs in food and beverage businesses should be able to face; and second, we will provide models and tools to design and implement appropriate courses of action to satisfy customers and build an advantage over the competition. This course is made up of four modules and an introduction, each exploring one dilemma that food and beverage companies face. You will be presented with a set of video lectures and guest speakers. These lectures combine an accessible introduction to specific topics integrated with interviews of managers and experts that will give precious insights and examples to the participants. To enhance your learning experience with us, we will make a Documentary on the Excellences of the Modena District available for you, which is in a format that we have developed specifically for this course in order to give you the chance to experience first-hand the territory as our on-campus students usually do. Each module is paired with an evaluated quiz and weekly discussion forums to reflect on the variety of the F&B world, its complexity, and the power of the network that we will build together during the course. Successful completion of the quizzes is required for a course certificate as explained in the Grading Policy. Below the guest speakers of the course: Masterchef Italia Sky – Nils Hartmann, Head of Movie Channels at Sky Italia – www.masterchef.sky.it Eataly - Paolo Bongiovanni, Marketing Director Italy – www.eataly.net Berlucchi – Paolo Ziliani, Owner – www.berlucchi.it Joia Restaurant – Alta Cucina Naturale – Pietro Leemann, Owner and Chef – www.joia.it Branca – Nicolò Branca, Owner – www.branca.it Barilla – Giuseppe Morici, President Region Europe – www.barilla.com Proyecto Expo 2015 Chile – Guillermo Ariztia, Chile Pavillon Director – www.expomilan.cl Winery Il Cavallante, Milano – Sergio Morpurgo, Owner Heineken – Floris Cobelens, Marketing Director – www.heineken.com TRDN – Martin Oetting, Managing Director – www.trnd.com GROM – Federico Grom, Owner and Founder – www.grom.it/en Tetra Pak – Matthew Hatton, Director Competitor Intelligence – www.tetrapak.com BioHombre – Matteo Panini, CEO – www.hombre.it Acetaia Maletti – Carmen & Claudio Maletti Cantine Riunite & CIV – Vanni Lusetti, CEO; Francesca Benini, Sales & Marketing Manager; Elena Lottici, Export Manager; Mario Vandi, Brand Manager – www.riunite.it GlemGas – Marco Guerzoni, Program Product Manager – www.glemgas.com Bibendum Catering – LaFranceschetta58 – Sabrina Lazzereschi & Marta Pulini, Owners and Founders – www.bibendumcatering.it , www.franceschetta58.it DISCLAIMER - Since most of the videos are conducted with those whose native language is not English, we have decided to sometimes preserve their more emphatic speech to keep a tighter match between the audio and the subtitles.
Google Cloud
Data Catalog: Qwik Start
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab you will explore existing datasets with Data Catalog and mine the table and column metadata for insights.
Alfaisal University | KLD
القرارات الاستثمارية باستخدام معيار صافي القيمة الحالية
الاستثمار بصورة صحيحة له أهمية كبيرة فهو من العوامل الهامة في نمو الاقتصاد بصورة عامة ونمو أموال المستثمرين (Investors) بصورة خاصة، لذا يجب أن يكون الاستثمار على أساس علمي مدروس حيث أن الخطأ يؤدي إلى خسائر أعمال (Business Losses)، ويكون ذلك باستخدام المعيار الأكثر شيوعاً في عالم المال (Finance) وهو معيار صافي القيمة الحالية (Net Present Value NPV). 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 بفهم القرارات الاستثمارية باستخدام معيار صافي القيمة الحالية، 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 كيفية اتخاذ قرار استثماري صحيح باستخدام صافي القيمة الحالية، شرح مفهوم معيار صافي القيمة الحالية، توضيح المقصود بالاستثمار الجيد.
University of California, Irvine
Enhance your Writing with Adverb Clauses
If you struggle to express complex ideas in English, don’t worry! This course will lead you step-by-step on your journey to more advanced writing. In the first part of the course, you’ll learn some basic information about adverb clauses. Then, we’ll dive into the categories of ideas that adverb clauses express, and you’ll practice using subordinating conjunctions--the many grammar words that start adverb clauses. At the end of the course, you’ll learn how to use varied types of sentences in your writing, and you’ll show off all that you’ve learned by writing a paragraph. We’ll compare this final paragraph with one that you’ll write at the beginning of the course, and you’ll see the difference that adverb clauses can make.