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University of California, Davis
Hands-on Data Centric Visual AI
This comprehensive course is a hands-on guide to developing and maintaining high-quality datasets for visual AI applications. Learners will gain in-depth knowledge and practical skills in: discovering and implementing various labeling approaches, from manual to fully automated methods; assessing and improving annotation quality for object detection tasks, including identifying and correcting common labeling issues; analyzing the impact of bounding box quality on model performance and developing strategies to enhance label consistency; use advanced tools like FiftyOne and CVAT for dataset exploration, error correction, and annotation refinement; addressing complex challenges in computer vision, such as overlapping detections, occlusions, and small object detection; implementing data augmentation techniques to improve model robustness and generalization; and applying concepts like sample hardness and entropy in the context of model training and dataset curation. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge and hands-on exercises, students will learn to create, maintain, and optimize datasets that lead to more accurate and reliable visual AI models.
Packt
SwiftUI & Node.js: Intro to Full Stack Development
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. Embark on a comprehensive journey into full-stack development, where you'll master the essentials of Node.js, MongoDB, and Express, combined with cutting-edge front-end techniques. The course begins with setting up your development environment, ensuring you have the tools necessary to build scalable and efficient applications. You'll learn to download and configure Node.js, MongoDB, and essential tools like Robo3T, laying a strong foundation for backend development. As you progress, you'll dive deep into backend development by constructing a robust RESTful API for a Notes App. You’ll explore Express, master the Mongoose library, and handle various HTTP requests, including POST, GET, UPDATE, and DELETE. Each lesson is designed to provide practical insights, ensuring you understand not only the how but also the why behind every line of code. Finally, you'll transition to the front-end development phase, where you'll bring your backend services to life through engaging user interfaces. From building a user-friendly UI for the Notes App to implementing a complex Twitter Clone, the course offers hands-on projects that mirror real-world applications. By the end, you'll be well-equipped to create, deploy, and manage full-stack applications that meet modern development standards. This course is ideal for developers who have a basic understanding of JavaScript and web development. Prior experience with front-end frameworks and familiarity with RESTful APIs is beneficial but not required.
Packt
Linux Fundamentals
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. Linux Fundamentals provides a comprehensive introduction to the Linux operating system, equipping you with the essential skills to use, manage, and troubleshoot Linux systems. You will master core concepts such as processes, file management, user permissions, and networking, setting a solid foundation for further exploration of more advanced Linux topics. By the end of the course, you’ll be well-equipped to handle tasks such as managing directories, creating executable scripts, and handling user permissions efficiently. Throughout the course, you will be guided step-by-step through key concepts and practical applications. You’ll begin by learning how to navigate the Linux shell and terminal, then move on to understanding how to manage processes and data streams. You’ll also gain hands-on experience with managing files and directories, search operations, and compressing data using utilities like tar and gzip. Additionally, you’ll explore networking concepts and how to remotely connect to servers using SSH. This course is perfect for beginners who want to get a strong foothold in Linux system administration. Whether you're looking to pursue a career in IT or simply want to understand Linux for personal projects, this course will provide a solid understanding of how to operate within the Linux environment.
Packt
Advanced Game Development and Unity Basics
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. Embark on an advanced journey in game development with our comprehensive course designed for developers aiming to enhance their skills and knowledge. The course begins with building a simple Ball Smash game, providing a quick yet effective introduction to Android game development. You’ll then progress to creating a 3D Endless Runner, where you’ll master setting up player controls, spawning enemies, and implementing scoring systems, all while ensuring a seamless gaming experience through user interface design and touch input controls. Next, you’ll dive into building another engaging game, learning to manage player interactions, obstacle creation, and game state management. Each game project is crafted to incrementally build your skills, from setting up the basics to deploying on Android devices. You’ll also learn essential techniques for creating immersive environments, such as adding fog effects and animated UI elements, ensuring your games are not only functional but visually captivating. In the final phase, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of implementing monetization strategies through Unity Ads. This includes setting up and displaying various types of ads, like rewarded video ads and banner ads, to maximize your game’s revenue potential. Additionally, the course covers Unity basics essential for Android game development, such as touch input, accelerometer input, and designing screen resolution-independent UI, ensuring you have a solid foundation to build and expand upon. This course is perfect for developers looking to enhance their Android game development skills, requiring a basic understanding of Unity and C#.
Coursera
Collaborate with Mentions
Collaborate with Mentions is an intermediate-to-advanced short course designed for IT managers and professionals who collaborate across distributed teams using shared documents and digital workspaces. In modern organizations, clarity, accountability, and timely feedback often depend on how effectively teams use collaboration features—not just the tools themselves. In this course, learners will explore three essential collaboration features—@mentions, inline comments, and page likes—and understand when and why to use each one. Through realistic workplace scenarios, guided reflections, and hands-on practice, learners will move from recognizing collaboration signals to applying them correctly in context. They will practice highlighting content, adding inline comments, and @mentioning the right stakeholders to request clarification or action—without creating noise or confusion. By the end of the course, learners will be able to choose the right collaboration feature for a given situation and apply it confidently in real documents. These skills support clearer communication, faster reviews, and better alignment across cross-functional teams—especially in IT management and change facilitation environments.
Michigan State University
Transmedia Writing
Do you have a desire to write a novel, write a screenplay, design a video game? In this project-centered course you will develop your own, original, intellectual property (IP) into a transmedia project containing written versions of your IP on various platforms. You will begin your novel, adapt the first chapters of your novel into the opening scenes of a film or TV show and create a game design concept of your IP. Learner review: "So much AMAZING information! The teacher and content are wonderful. Learned so much!" This is a course is based in "Active Learning" so that most of the actual learning takes place within your own activities - that is, writing! You will learn by doing. I am a proponent of experiential learning (also known as active learning). My lectures are short and succinct, 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, but I won’t show you how to write or what to write. That is up to you, you are the only one who can illustrate your creative thoughts, by writing them! I firmly believe that the only way to become a writer is to write, write, write. You need to unleash your creativity and my plan is to help you to do exactly that! Learner review: "This is the most challenging writing course that I have done so far! But, it actually made me write the first two chapters of my novel and now, I am now looking forward to finishing the novel and getting it published." All of the assignments on this course are peer review. At each stage of the process, whether creating your novel, your screenplay or your video game, you will post your written work and review the works of your peers. Peer review is an extremely important element of this course. Giving feedback and getting feedback is essential to the development of your critical thinking and your growth as a writer. It is as important as the writing itself. This course is designed to tap into your creativity and help you to develop your skills in expressing that creativity through written words. Learner review: "It made me stay up to 4AM a few times, but its incredible. You will learn a lot, and it is a very fun class" Writing is a truly beautiful, amazing, satisfying thing. Imagine, 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. It is a very rewarding experience. Learner review: "This course really pushed me to my limits and it is an eye opener for me that there are goals that I can still achieve and accomplish through the world of writing."
Coursera
Practical Vim Editor Commands On Linux
Vim, or vi improved, is a standard editor on Linux. It comes with virtually every version of Linux out there and is available on Mac and Windows as well. If you are in a situation where you need to edit from the command line, for example when you ssh into another system, vim will be there. Vim is an ordinary text editor, like notepad. It inserts no special characters into the text document unless you tell it to. Vim has some powerful commands that make it fast and efficient. Vim also has a large user community, so once you are up and running with it, you can easily find the commands you are looking for online. In this course, you will clean and standardize a Vocabulary list file using Vim commands. You will come away with a gentle and not overwhelming introduction to the Vim editor. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
IBM
Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyberattacks
According to a recent IBM report, cyberattacks have surged 71%! This alarming statistic highlights a huge demand for cybersecurity professionals. This IBM course will introduce you to fundamental cybersecurity concepts, threats, and preventive measures to start your cybersecurity journey. In this course, you’ll explore the evolution of cybersecurity and discover the critical thinking model. You’ll also cover threat actors, malware, ransomware, and defenses against social engineering. Additionally, you’ll learn about internet security threats and security controls. You’ll explore the fundamentals of identity and access management (IAM), authentication, and access control. You’ll also look at the physical threats organizations encounter and consider effective security measures. Throughout, you’ll build practical knowledge through hands-on labs and gain technical expertise through insights from industry experts. Your final project will enable you to effectively demonstrate your understanding of cybersecurity principles. This course is for anyone who wants a basic understanding of cybersecurity and is part of a series designed to help you start a career as a Cybersecurity Analyst.
Microsoft
Product Launch and Post-Launch Management
Navigate the journey of launching a new product into the market and managing its lifecycle post-launch. This course covers planning successful launches, developing marketing and sales strategies, ensuring product quality, and managing post-launch activities. Learn to execute enterprise software deployments, ensure compliance monitoring, and conduct thorough testing. Develop effective marketing strategies across various channels, create compelling sales strategies, and analyze market feedback. Implement quality assurance and control techniques, monitor product performance using KPIs, and gather customer feedback. Plan and implement product updates and enhancements, and apply data-driven insights to make informed decisions. Learn to utilize generative AI in product management and manage AI product lifecycles, including performance monitoring, iterative updates, and ethical considerations. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - - Plan and coordinate a successful product launch. - Develop and implement product marketing and sales strategies. - Apply quality assurance and control techniques to ensure product quality. - Manage the product life cycle post-launch, including updates and improvements. - Complete a final project that Explain the ability to launch and manage a product. -Execute enterprise software deployments -Ensure compliance monitoring A Microsoft 365 license or free trial is needed to complete the course activities.
Voxy
Intermediate English: Talking About Yourself
In this course, you will develop your English conversational skills that you can use to build your personal and professional relationships. Learning activities in this course will take place on Voxy, an engaging language learning platform that automatically adapts to your current level and your performance across reading, listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills so that every lesson is optimized for rapid improvement. Each week is made up of engaging, short, task-based lessons that can be done anywhere, anytime. Lessons include content from the real world, so you will learn from dozens of real conversations about a variety of common topics that come up when talking about yourself – who you are, where you're from, what you do, and your likes and dislikes. By the end of the course, you will feel confident speaking and writing about yourself in both personal and professional contexts.
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
From Zero to Hero - Digital Product Development From Scratch
Welcome to our Coursera course on contemporary digital product development! Throughout this course, you'll gain invaluable insights into the inner workings of digital product development. Drawing from the extensive expertise of Digital Product School (DPS), which has guided hundreds of cross-functional teams in creating successful products from inception to delivery, you'll explore methodologies and strategies proven by reality instead of fancy books. This course has been curated in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our journey begins by examining the foundational principles that have empowered our product teams to find ideas and transform them into tangible, market-ready products within 12 weeks. Additionally, you'll delve into generative AI, understanding its significance, risks, and benefits in the business context. Gain practical experience using Amazon Bedrock and Lex to create innovative AI applications and conversational interfaces. The course also covers the machine learning lifecycle, where you'll master critical aspects such as model sourcing, performance evaluation, and MLOps practices. By the end of this course, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of digital product development and the confidence to apply your skills in real-world scenarios. Join us to unlock the secrets to successful product creation and enhance your expertise in the digital domain!
University of Virginia
The Kennedy Half Century
When John F. Kennedy entered the presidential limousine at Love Field in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, he began his ride into history. That journey continues even today and we call it the Kennedy legacy. This course will explore the Presidency, assassination, and lasting legacy of President John F. Kennedy. Students will learn how JFK’s life, administration, and tragic death have influenced the general public, the media, and each of the nine U.S. presidents who followed. Understanding the Kennedy legacy and being able to identify elements of his legacy within the context of modern politics helps understand many of the vexing problems that developed over the last half century as well as many of the challenges that confront us today. November 22, 1963 was so powerful a moment that in the fifty years since the assassination, every U.S. President that followed JFK has used Kennedy’s words and actions in an effort to craft their own political image. Why does Kennedy’s influence persist, and will it continue? What are the effects? We’ll address these questions and more as we explore The Kennedy Half Century. Follow on Twitter: @JFKclass.
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Strategic Sourcing
This course will provide a detailed overview of a Strategic Sourcing Process (7 step Process): Profile the Category, Develop a Category Sourcing Strategy, Generate Supplier Profile, Choose Competitive Selection or Supplier Development, Select Supplier(s) and Negotiate, Implement, Continuous Improvement/Supplier Relationship Management This course learnings will be supported videos, readings a a required case with peer review.
National Academy of Sports Medicine
Popular Fitness Supplements
Supplements have been a major part of the health, wellness, fitness, and dieting industries for decades. The growth of consumer goods and social media has driven the supplement industry into a huge market. The National Academy of Sports Medicine is the leader in educating and credentialing fitness, wellness, and performance professionals across the globe. Join NASM in this comprehensive course.
Coursera
GenAI for Everyone
This course offers a foundational journey into the world of Generative AI (GenAI), setting the stage for a comprehensive learning path that delves into the nuanced, role-specific applications of AI. Designed to equip learners with essential GenAI knowledge, this primer is the perfect starting point before progressing through a series of courses tailored to various job functions and roles. This course not only introduces the basics, applications, and ethical considerations of GenAI but also serves as an invitation to explore the broader implications and opportunities GenAI presents within different professional spheres. Participants will gain a clear, plain-language understanding of GenAI, enriched with concrete examples that demonstrate its practical application. This course is designed for executives, team leads, and individuals across various professional domains who seek to harness the power of Generative AI to enhance creativity, productivity, and effectiveness in their roles. Whether you're an innovator eager to integrate GenAI into your practices or a leader exploring actionable strategies for organizational implementation, this course caters to your learning needs. For pre-requisites, no prior technical knowledge is required. However, a basic understanding of business and an open mind towards the subject matter are beneficial. All you need is curiosity and a willingness to delve into the world of Generative AI. As the entry point to an expansive learning journey, "GenAI Essentials" aims to ignite curiosity, provide foundational knowledge, and encourage learners to explore how GenAI can be specifically leveraged in their job roles. Embark on this educational adventure to demystify GenAI and unlock your creative potential, laying the groundwork for specialized, transformative learning experiences ahead.
Coursera
EHR: Navigate Data & Compliance Confidently
Did you know that medical data entry errors contribute to over 250,000 deaths annually in the U.S.? This Short Course was created to help health administration professionals accomplish confident, compliant EHR navigation and data management. By completing this course, you'll be able to quickly locate essential patient information, enter data with precision that prevents costly errors, and maintain HIPAA compliance that protects your organization from violations. These foundational skills will transform your efficiency from day one, enabling you to support clinical operations with confidence and accuracy. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Identify common fields and icons within a typical EHR dashboard • Enter demographic and clinical data into an EHR template with precision • Explain compliance requirements for handling Protected Health Information (PHI) This course is unique because it combines hands-on EHR navigation with real-world compliance scenarios, ensuring you're prepared for both the technical and regulatory aspects of medical record management. To be successful in this course, you should have a background in basic computer navigation and an understanding of medical terminology.