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Northeastern University
Understanding the U.S. Healthcare Landscape
This course is best suited for individuals currently in the healthcare sector, as a provider, payer, or administrator. Individuals pursuing a career change to the healthcare sector may also be interested in this course. This course is the continuation of An Overview of the U.S. Healthcare System course . If you have not yet taken the introductory course, it is recommend that you complete that course prior to this course. The foundational knowledge from the introduction is carried through in this deeper dive into learning about how the U.S. Healthcare System operates. This course provides an insight into the payment architecture, cost and value of prescription drugs, spending, outcomes, and social accountability of the American Healthcare System. Throughout this course, you will be given the opportunity to evaluate your understanding through engagement in course discussions, application of course concepts to course assignments, and through completion of content quizzes along the way.
University of Colorado Boulder
The Power of Sport in American Culture
Have you ever wondered why sports are such a big deal in the United States? Or why American’s don’t love futbol (soccer) as much as the rest of the world? This course investigates the multi-billion dollar sports industry as a way to discern American cultural values. Themes we will explore: -- Sports media’s glorification of sport -- America’s religious-like fandom -- The "sport as war" frame and the implications -- Gender, racial, and political systems of power This course will open your eyes to the power of sport as a cultural institution. You’ll analyze the discourses of sports culture and apply critical thinking to your personal experiences with sports. Whether you're a sports fanatic or a curious learner, this course will instill a deeper understanding of American values and how they play out on the field.
AI Business School
Introduction to AI for management professionals
Welcome to the “Introduction to AI for management professionals” — a unique, hands-on course designed to help you build foundational AI and Generative AI literacy. In this course, you’ll discover how Generative AI is transforming the management profession, explore key risks and best practices, while experimenting with powerful AI tools in interactive, management-focused applications. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand the fundamentals of AI and its potential opportunities in management - Explore and recognize risks and limitations associated with AI and how to address them - Practice with different AI tools to get hands-on experience - Get started with essential prompting techniques for using different Generative AI models - Discover and try out various management-specific use cases and AI technologies, explore the ways to integrate them into daily job routines - Participate in a project to generate a management-specific AI use case idea with an interest in programming. - Prepare for the next phase of your AI journey, progressing from foundational to advanced applications Welcome to the unique “Introduction to AI for management professionals” course. Just start your AI journey and discover all the fascinating opportunities opened up for you by Artificial Intelligence.
Microsoft
Security, Maintenance & Integration with BI Tools
Develop essential database administration skills focusing on security, maintenance, and business integration. This final course teaches you to implement SQL Server security through authentication, authorization, and data encryption while ensuring data integrity through validation constraints and auditing. You'll learn critical maintenance tasks including backups, recovery, and index maintenance to ensure database reliability and performance. The course also covers integrating SQL Server with Power BI for creating interactive dashboards and reports that transform raw data into actionable insights. Additionally, you'll explore modern application integration patterns and API connectivity. By completing this course, you'll possess the comprehensive skill set needed to securely manage database environments and bridge the gap between data storage and business intelligence.
INSEAD
Blockchain in Financial Services: Strategic Action Plan
In this fourth and final course of the specialization, you will synthesize your learning into a Strategic Action Plan. The goals of this course are twofold: One, it’s for you to identify a specific need or problem within the financial services industry that can potentially be solved using blockchain technology. Two, it’s for you to investigate possible solutions to this problem, and to develop a strategic plan for how these solutions might be executed. You will accomplish different project milestones each week, and will be introduced to several tools to organize your findings. Throughout this process, you will hear from real-world practitioners who have hands-on experience in the blockchain ecosystem. Additionally, by participating in this course you will gain access to our Blockchain Case Commons—a crowdsourced collection of blockchain applications and use-cases spanning multiple industries. As an outcome of this course, you will walk away with a consolidated, peer-reviewed Strategic Action Plan, which you can use to pitch your idea to your organization and/or potential investors.
MathWorks
Low Code Image Segmentation
This 1 hour course quickly teaches you how to segment images with MATLAB. You'll use apps to segment grayscale and color images. The apps generate code so you can apply the same steps to many images automatically. This course reuses content from our Image Processing for Engineering and Science specialization. To learn how to analyze your segmented images or to segment videos, we enourage you to enroll in the entire specialization.
Università Bocconi
Corporate Sustainability. Understanding and Seizing the Strategic Opportunity
The achievement of a balanced economic, social and environmental development - as expressed in the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development - is recognized as one of the major challenges humanity is facing today. What is less clear is whether and how organizations can generate business opportunities and value for their stakeholders while tackling such challenges. In this course, thought leaders in a wide variety of management and economics fields illustrate how to assess and seize the opportunities offered by these global emergencies. They will offer new ways to understand the purpose and the logic of success of the business enterprise in this new context, providing ideas and examples on how to manage the transition process to realize the value creation potential from corporate sustainability for all involved stakeholders. Learning objectives The course will allow you to: - Understand What the macroeconomic and microeconomic consequences of both climate changes, poverty, hunger, gender or race discriminations, lack of communication between the State, Civil Societies, and businesses, etc are. - Understand Why it is important for businesses to tackle sustainability issues in order to create more and better business opportunities; - Learn How each individual, organization and system can start to analyze its behaviors and change towards more sustainable practices and models.
Google Cloud
Gemini for Data Scientists and Analysts - Bahasa Indonesia
Dalam kursus ini, Anda akan mempelajari bagaimana Gemini, kolaborator yang didukung AI generatif dari Google Cloud, membantu menganalisis data pelanggan dan memprediksi penjualan produk. Anda juga akan mempelajari cara mengidentifikasi, mengategorikan, dan mengembangkan pelanggan baru menggunakan data pelanggan di BigQuery. Dengan menggunakan lab interaktif, Anda akan melihat bagaimana Gemini meningkatkan analisis data dan alur kerja machine learning. Duet AI berganti nama menjadi Gemini, yang merupakan model generasi berikutnya dari kami.
Edureka
Generative AI Automation Tools and Applications
This course offers a practical pathway to understand how Generative AI can transform enterprise automation, streamlining workflows, enhancing decision-making, and reducing manual effort. You’ll learn to design, build, and scale AI-driven automation solutions using low-code tools, open-source frameworks, and advanced agent orchestration techniques. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll gain the skills to connect APIs, chain AI agents, test and debug workflows, and deploy real-world automations for business processes such as customer support, sales, and decision support. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Explain the principles of Generative AI automation and its role in enterprise workflows - Use tools like LangChain, Flowise, n8n, Make, Zapier, Open AI, and Hugging Face for automation tasks - Build low-code workflows integrating AI models, APIs, and event triggers - Design error-tolerant, human-in-the-loop, and multi-agent automation patterns - Scale and monitor automation solutions in cloud environments with proper security and compliance - Apply best practices and understand future trends in Generative AI-driven business automation This course is ideal for automation specialists, solution architects, developers, and business professionals looking to leverage Generative AI to create scalable, intelligent, and efficient enterprise workflows. Join us to learn how Generative AI is shaping the future of enterprise automation—and how you can put it to work for your organization.
Coursera
Verbinde Tools in Slack miteinander
Nachdem du dieses Projekt abgeschlossen hast, wird du gelernt haben wie du deine Tools in der kostenlosen unternehmens basierten Messaging-App Slack hinzufügen kannst, um dir und deinem Team bestimmte Arbeitsabläufe zu erleichtern. Dieses Produkt ist für Menschen gedacht, die Slack bereits benutzen und ihre Arbeitsabläufe vereinfachen wollen oder produktiver gestalten möchten. Slack ist eine Messaging-App, die sich an Unternehmen richtet, die für eine schnelle und einfache Kommunikation zwischen den verschiedenen Teammitgliedern sorgt. Durch die Kommunikation mit Slack können Ressourcen mit allen entsprechenden mitgliedern effektiv geteilt werden und der Arbeitsprozess somit optimiert werden. Slack gibt es sowohl als Desktop-App als auch als Webbrowserversion und bietet seinen Usern neben effektiver Kommunikation die Möglichkeit andere Apps und Tools miteinander zu verbinden. Nach Abschluss dieses Projektes wirst du gelernt haben, Tools in Slack miteinander zu verbinden, um alle Informationen an einem Ort zusammen zu haben. Die Integration der verschiedenen Tools in Slack Sorgen dafür, dass auf Information und Materialien einfach zugegriffen werden kann und dass wichtige Informationen nicht verloren gegangen werden.
Board Infinity
PL-400 Exam Preparation & Capstone: Real-World Projects
This final course in the specialization helps consolidate your preparation for the Microsoft PL-400 certification through real-world application and rigorous assessment. It integrates all previously covered concepts into full-length practice exams, project-based learning, and a capstone challenge that simulates professional Power Platform development. You’ll begin by planning and building a real-world solution using Power Apps, Dataverse, and other Microsoft tools mirroring real business scenarios. Each phase of the project covers critical exam domains like database design, form building, gallery setup, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting. You’ll reinforce your technical skills while practicing structured problem-solving and design thinking. The course also provides practical exam tips, time management strategies, and techniques for solving scenario-based and elimination-style questions. A final timed simulation lets you assess your PL-400 readiness under real exam conditions. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Build and deploy an end-to-end Power Platform solution - Apply ALM and DevOps to real-world app lifecycle management - Complete full-length practice exams with confidence - Refine exam technique and identify gaps through simulation Designed for learners completing the specialization, this capstone ensures you're technically ready and strategically prepared for PL-400 success. 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 Microsoft corporation or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. This course is not an official preparation material of Microsoft corporation. All trademarks, service marks, and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.
Google Cloud
Explore SAP Data Foundation using Looker Dashboards
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. Visualize the Google Cloud Cortex Data Foundation for SAP by viewing reports pre-installed in a Looker instance
SkillUp
Data Collection and Root Cause Analysis
The course will equip you with the competencies and essential skills required to excel in the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt (CSSYB) exam and contribute to process improvement programs. This course focuses on various data collection tools and techniques to analyze data, identify the root causes of a problem, and explore the concepts of measurement system analysis (MSA), and hypothesis testing. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Define data requirements to gather relevant data from the process using appropriate data collection methods. • Calculate baseline process performance metrics based on the collected data. • Analyze data for variations and use data analysis tools and techniques to identify the root causes for the problem or variation. The course is best suited for entry-level professionals who are new to the world of Six Sigma and wish to improve their professional experience and opportunities. For this course, no prior knowledge is required, however, it is recommended that you complete the first course, Introduction to Lean Six Sigma and Project Identification Methods in the ASQ-Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt Exam Prep Specialization.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cloud Networking
In the cloud networking course, we will see what the network needs to do to enable cloud computing. We will explore current practice by talking to leading industry experts, as well as looking into interesting new research that might shape the cloud network’s future. This course will allow us to explore in-depth the challenges for cloud networking—how do we build a network infrastructure that provides the agility to deploy virtual networks on a shared infrastructure, that enables both efficient transfer of big data and low latency communication, and that enables applications to be federated across countries and continents? Examining how these objectives are met will set the stage for the rest of the course. This course places an emphasis on both operations and design rationale—i.e., how things work and why they were designed this way. We're excited to start the course with you and take a look inside what has become the critical communications infrastructure for many applications today.
IIMA - IIM Ahmedabad
Leadership Skills
Welcome to the Leadership Skills course! In our increasingly complex world, understanding the practice of leadership is critical. In simpler words, leadership is the practice of influencing people to meet the challenges that will enable them to achieve important individual and organizational goals. This course provides a foundation for leadership practice and aims to take you on a journey of self-discovery. You will also gain insight into building inner stability and developing your leadership skills. This is a beginner course designed for professionals from diverse work backgrounds. The course helps you lean on your experiences and strengthen your capacity to lead across boundaries, from any political or organizational position, with or without authority. The course will also enable you to learn important leadership skills, clarifying the relationships among key concepts such as definitions of leadership, self-management, authority, power, influence, politics, negotiations, change management, decision-making, and various leadership styles. This knowledge will provide you with a practical and coherent theoretical framework for applying and exercising leadership. Lastly, the course explores the challenge of managing the inevitable personal stresses and dangers of leading a team. The course draws from business management, philosophy, spirituality, history, literature, sports, communications, and psychology. To succeed in this course, you should have experience or a basic understanding of working in organizations.
EDUCBA
Unity: Design & Implement Advanced Rendering Effects
This course is designed to empower intermediate-to-advanced Unity developers with the skills to design, construct, and implement advanced rendering workflows using Unity’s built-in shader system. Through a structured approach involving real-world shader authoring practices, learners will progressively analyze, apply, and evaluate transformation matrices, camera systems, multi-texture sampling, gamma-space correction, and texture blending techniques. The course is divided into three focused modules: • Fundamentals of Rendering and Transformation — Learners explore how rendering pipelines operate, and how object transformations using position, rotation, and scaling matrices are mathematically and visually applied in Unity. • Shader Development in Unity — This module demystifies SubShaders, surface functions, properties, and GPU instructions, guiding learners to compile, customize, and debug efficient shaders for dynamic surface rendering. • Advanced Texturing and Effects — Learners advance into practical multi-texture blending using splatmaps, slate maps, and gamma correction to create layered, high-fidelity materials for use in dynamic environments. By the end of the course, students will be able to create optimized shader-based effects, blend multiple materials contextually, and enhance visual realism through matrix logic and advanced texturing pipelines.