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Packt
From Recipe to Chef - Become an LLM Engineer
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 embark on an exciting culinary adventure of Large Language Models (LLMs), from the foundational ingredients to the final deployment of your own LLM-powered app. Through each module, you'll gain hands-on experience in model training, fine-tuning, and deployment, equipping you with the skills to become a proficient LLM engineer. By the end, you’ll understand how LLMs are created, optimized, and evaluated, and how they’re applied to real-world problems. Your learning journey will start with understanding the core principles behind LLMs, like data tokenization, training mechanisms, and the nuances of prompt engineering. As you dive deeper, you'll explore different architectures and learn how to fine-tune LLMs to suit specific needs, using techniques like transfer learning and low-rank adaptation. From there, you’ll get hands-on with deploying LLMs into production environments and building interactive applications using tools like Gradio, Streamlit, and LangChain. Whether you’re new to AI or looking to refine your skills, this course will walk you through the process of designing and developing LLM-powered solutions. By the end, you’ll not only have built a fully functional LLM app, but you will also be ready to enter the booming field of LLM engineering with the skills and confidence to make an impact. By the end of the course, you will be able to understand the fundamentals of LLMs, create and fine-tune your own models, evaluate their effectiveness, deploy them in real-world applications, and monitor and improve their performance over time. Additionally, you’ll have developed a strong portfolio of LLM projects to showcase your expertise.
Johns Hopkins University
Psychedelic Science and Medicine
Explore the science and therapeutic potential of psychedelics in this course led by experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. You'll learn about the history of psychedelic use, the neuroscience underlying their effects, and the latest clinical trials evaluating their therapeutic potential. Gain insights into their risks and benefits, ethical considerations like informed consent, and ongoing challenges in the field. This course equips learners to critically assess scientific findings, moving beyond hype to understand the evidence. Whether you're interested in the neurobiological mechanisms of psychedelics, their role in mental health treatment, or broader societal impacts, this course provides a comprehensive and evidence-based foundation. Perfect for students, professionals, or anyone curious about this emerging area of science, the course offers a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research and practical implications for medicine and beyond.
Coursera
How to Set Up Shop on Facebook Shops using Canva
Throughout the project, we will be able to create a fully functioning Facebook Shop step by step. By the end of this project, you will be able to create a fully functional Facebook Shop for your business. Throughout the project, you will be able to identify and apply the functions of Facebook shop, in addition to creating a seamless experience for your prospective customers when they visit your shop. Moreover, you will also be able to use Canva, which gives you a wide array of features that allow you to edit photos without extensive photo editing knowledge or experience. This guided project is for intermediate users of Facebook Business users since we will develop from the basic knowledge of running a Facebook Page. This project will provide you with the ability to create a simplified online buying and selling process for customers and small business owners.
Coursera
DynaTrace Masterclass – The Complete Guide for Beginners
Dynatrace Masterclass – The Complete Guide for Beginners is a beginner-friendly course for DevOps engineers, SREs, IT operations professionals, and cloud architects who want to master AI-powered observability and performance monitoring. As enterprises adopt cloud-native, containerized, and microservices-based architectures, the need for real-time monitoring and automated root cause analysis has never been greater. This course equips you with the foundational skills to set up and manage end-to-end observability using Dynatrace. You'll learn to deploy OneAgent and ActiveGate, navigate the Smartscape topology, analyze service dependencies, and leverage PurePath distributed tracing for deep diagnostics. Through a mix of guided tutorials, case studies, and hands-on practice, you'll build expertise in monitoring applications, infrastructure, and user experience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Beyond setup, the course introduces governance and automation practices, including role-based access controls, tagging strategies, and Davis AI for anomaly detection and alerting. Whether you're just starting your journey with observability or looking to strengthen your DevOps toolkit, this course will help you confidently deploy, monitor, and optimize systems with Dynatrace—ensuring resilience, scalability, and business continuity.
University of California, Davis
Advanced Web Layouts
In this final course of the Web Development for Beginners specialization, we’ll review new approaches for designers and developers to create and control the flow of content on web pages. We’ll review advanced uses of CSS grid, and explore creative ways grid has been implemented on websites in recent years. You’ll practice to build your fluency with challenges and techniques learned throughout the course, and work with advanced features of CSS Flexbox properties to create web layouts. Lastly, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence will affect design and web development in the near-term future, and provide some guidance around using those tools effectively.
Packt
Advanced AWS Infrastructure & Cost Management
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. This comprehensive course explores advanced AWS infrastructure services and cost management techniques. It is designed to help professionals optimize their AWS resources for both performance and cost efficiency. You’ll gain practical skills in managing specialized infrastructure like AWS Local Zones, Wavelength, and Outposts, as well as learn cost optimization strategies using tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Pricing Calculator, and AWS Budgets. This course also covers advanced storage, networking, and compute solutions, ensuring you're equipped with all the necessary tools for a successful AWS environment. The course begins by exploring specialized infrastructure solutions, with in-depth coverage of AWS services like Local Zones and Wavelength, providing learners with the knowledge to support edge and hybrid cloud deployments. You’ll also delve into billing and cost management tools, learning how to forecast, monitor, and optimize your AWS spending. As you progress, the course introduces critical aspects of compute, storage, and networking in AWS, covering key features like Amazon FSx, AWS Transit Gateway, and Amazon Route 53 for efficient resource management. This course is ideal for cloud architects, engineers, and anyone working with AWS at an advanced level. It assumes prior knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure concepts. The course is suitable for professionals seeking to deepen their expertise in AWS cost management and advanced infrastructure configurations. By the end of the course, you will be able to analyze and optimize AWS costs, manage specialized infrastructure deployments, optimize AWS compute and storage solutions, and integrate advanced networking features like AWS Transit Gateway and Route 53.
SkillUp
Program Management: Framework, Strategy, and Planning
Businesses report that 80% more projects meet forecast ROI when benefits are aligned with an organization’s strategic goals (PMI). This course provides aspiring program managers (PMs) with the in-demand skills needed to align multiple projects with strategic goals and ensure program success. Framework, strategy, and planning are essential tools in a PM’s toolkit that provide the structure and roadmap they need to align program objectives with organizational goals. In this course, you’ll explore the three phases of the program lifecycle and the PM’s critical responsibilities in each phase. You’ll examine how programs align with organizational strategy, while balancing portfolio and operations management. You’ll learn how to implement strategic initiatives in a changing environment, define program activities and key deliverables to ensure success, and include effective risk management strategies. Throughout the course, you’ll gain valuable hands-on practice through online labs. Plus, you’ll complete a final project that covers a real-world scenario in a practical setting. Enroll today and build essential skills you need for success as a program manager!
28DIGITAL
Privacy in Europe
Explore the intricacies of European privacy law in this focused course, designed as a follow-up to "Privacy in the Western World." This course places a strong focus on the European legal framework, which bases its privacy protection on seminal human rights treaties such as the UN Declaration on Human Rights. You'll gain insights into the historical context that shaped Europe's approach to privacy, beginning with economic cooperation initiatives set up to prevent another conflict after the devastating effects of World War II. As you progress, you'll learn how this cooperative framework expanded to address critical issues, including the paramount importance of respecting human rights and, increasingly, the protection of individual privacy—a subject that has attracted substantial global attention. Dive into the legal elements that have played a key role in formalizing the notion of privacy and its legal protection. Specifically, you will examine the rules governing the exchange of personal data between the USA and Europe and delve into the foundational legal components that make up the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Upon completing this course, you'll have a thorough understanding of both the key legal elements and the historical context that led to the development of privacy protection in Europe. Ready to expand your knowledge and become proficient in European privacy law? Enroll now to ensure you don't miss this opportunity.
University of Lausanne
La science forensique au tribunal: témoin digne de foi ?
L’objectif de ce cours est d’encourager la réflexion critique en ce qui concerne la « science forensique », également appelée police technique et scientifique ou criminalistique. À l’heure actuelle, de manière générale, la plupart des gens sont fascinés par les possibilités techniques qu’offre la police scientifique. Ils sont bercés par une certaine illusion que les preuves de la science forensique sont infaillibles et fournissent des résultats factuels sûrs à 100 %. Ce cours – dispensé par des spécialistes du domaine – dépasse l’image conventionnelle véhiculée par des séries télévisées comme « Les Experts ». Il alerte (sans alarmer) le public sur les limites des techniques afin de promouvoir une bonne gestion administrative de la science forensique dans le système de justice pénale. Il permet aux participant·e·s de comprendre l’importance du raisonnement probabiliste en sciences forensiques, car l’incertitude fait partie intégrante de celle-ci. Le cours s’articule autour d’une série de causes célèbres qui auraient pu ou ont mené à des erreurs judiciaires. Certaines de ces affaires ont fait partie des études de cas réalisées à l’École des sciences criminelles de l’Université de Lausanne.
EDUCBA
Mastering Oracle SQL Functions with SQL Developer
By the end of this course, learners will be able to apply advanced SQL operators, design efficient queries using views and indexes, and implement analytic and conditional functions to solve real-world business problems. Participants will learn how to restructure and aggregate data with CUBE, ROLLUP, and GROUPING SETS, as well as handle NULL values using NVL, NVL2, and COALESCE. This course goes beyond theory by offering case-study-driven practice in Oracle SQL Developer, ensuring learners gain hands-on experience with query optimization and advanced reporting. Learners will not only understand how to write SQL code but also evaluate performance impacts, analyze multidimensional data, and design logic-driven queries for decision-making. What makes this course unique is its practical approach, combining foundational SQL structures with advanced business-ready techniques such as DECODE, CASE, and ranking functions like ROW_NUMBER, RANK, and DENSE_RANK. By completing this course, learners will confidently create optimized, flexible, and insightful SQL queries that are essential for careers in data analytics, business intelligence, and database management.
Simplilearn
Generative AI in Software Testing Training
This beginner-friendly course explores how Generative AI is transforming software testing across the QA lifecycle. Learn to automate requirement analysis, test planning, test case development, execution, and closure using cutting-edge tools like testRigor. Discover how AI simplifies environment setup, creates synthetic test data, prioritizes test cases, and enhances reporting through real-world demos. Gain hands-on experience comparing traditional vs GenAI-driven workflows and improve testing speed, accuracy, and coverage with AI-powered automation. Basic understanding of software testing or QA processes is recommended. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Use GenAI tools to automate requirement analysis, test design, and execution - Generate test cases, synthetic data, and acceptance criteria with AI - Optimize test planning and cycle closure with minimal manual effort - Apply tools like testRigor for real-world GenAI-powered testing tasks - Evaluate GenAI adoption using examples from industries like healthcare analytics Ideal for QA professionals, testers, and tech teams looking to enhance testing workflows with AI.
Erasmus University Rotterdam
International Security Management
In this MOOC you will learn about the colorful and diverse international security landscape, and gain insights into challenging topics including Open Source Intelligence, serious organised crime and illicit trade. You will also meet stakeholders from different sectors and backgrounds. We recorded our videos at different locations in Europe to also give you an insight into the original environment of our contributing experts. You will realize that the style and focus of the various presentations will differ from one week to the other. We feel that this is a big asset! And yes, we also have men in suits and uniforms...
Simplilearn
Introduction to AWS for Cloud Beginners
This comprehensive AWS course equips you with the skills to build, deploy, and manage secure, scalable applications using Amazon Web Services. Begin by mastering cloud computing fundamentals—understand the role of AWS, its global infrastructure, and how to navigate the AWS Management Console. Get hands-on with essential services like S3, EC2, EBS, VPC, and CloudFront to create resilient and efficient cloud environments. Progress to managing databases with DynamoDB and RDS, automating infrastructure with CloudFormation, and monitoring performance using CloudWatch. Strengthen your cloud security knowledge by configuring IAM roles, users, and access controls. You should have a basic understanding of computer networks, operating systems, and general IT concepts. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand AWS: Learn core cloud computing concepts and global infrastructure - Use Core Services: Deploy and manage with S3, EC2, EBS, and VPC - Automate & Monitor: Implement CloudFormation and CloudWatch for efficient operations - Secure Access: Manage users, roles, and permissions with IAM Ideal for IT professionals, developers, and cloud beginners aiming to launch their AWS journey.
Coursera
Optimization with Next.js: Build a Product Portfolio Website
In this 1.5-hour long guided project, you will learn how to build an optimized website using Next.js. We do this by building the website step by step using Microsoft Visual Studio code and Next.js command line tools. To ensure that the users have a pleasant browsing experience, we will use Next.js optimized components instead of traditional HTML elements. You will also learn how to apply global and local styles to avoid class name collision. This project is aimed at learners who already know how to build a website using traditional methods or other frameworks other than Next.js.
University of California San Diego
Delivery Problem
In this online course we’ll implement (in Python) together efficient programs for a problem needed by delivery companies all over the world millions times per day — the travelling salesman problem. The goal in this problem is to visit all the given places as quickly as possible. How to find an optimal solution to this problem quickly? We still don’t have provably efficient algorithms for this difficult computational problem and this is the essence of the P versus NP problem, the most important open question in Computer Science. Still, we’ll implement several solutions for real world instances of the travelling salesman problem. While designing these solutions, we will rely heavily on the material learned in the courses of the specialization: proof techniques, combinatorics, probability, graph theory. We’ll see several examples of using discrete mathematics ideas to get more and more efficient solutions.
Coursera
Build and Execute an Organisational AI Strategy
AI is the hottest, most exciting technology to burst onto the scene in recent years. Its impact is so big, it is revolutionizing industries all over the globe. If you are an executive, you may be wondering how to harness AI's incredible power for your organization. Well, this course is going to show you how to do just that. This Short Course was created to help leaders in organizations harness the power of AI to create long-term value for their businesses. By completing this course you'll be able to develop and execute an effective AI Strategy for your organization that enables efficiency, growth, and an increased competitive advantage. More specifically, in this 1.5-hour long course, you will learn how to develop your organization's GenAI capability to enable the sustainable delivery of AI-powered solutions, analyze the potential applications of GenAI in your organization, identify opportunities for improvement and expansion, and apply a governance structure that assures the implementation of GenAI solutions that are ethical and compliant with legislation. This course is unique because it will give you all the essentials you will need to turn your organization into an AI-fueled powerhouse.