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Skillshare
Scout Like a Pro: Find Landscape Photography Locations
Do you love to explore the outdoors and capture stunning images? Join naturalist, photographer, and outdoor educator Meredith Fontana to learn how to scout new and exciting places to take landscape photos. In this course you will learn: * How to use Google Earth and Gaia GPS to scout and discover unique locations to photograph. * Identify topography and terrain features that make great photography spots. * Search for hidden gems and locations that are off the beaten path. * Tips for finding the best times of day to shoot a location. This course is for: Anyone who loves to explore the outdoors and escape the crowds. Hikers, backpackers, cyclists, and overlanders will find this course especially useful. Anyone who wants to capture the beauty of our planet with a camera, no matter what type of camera you have. Instructor bio: Meredith Fontana is a landscape photographer, naturalist, and outdoor educator based in Denver, Colorado. Having previously worked as a paleontologist, she has a deep appreciation for the natural world and loves to share her knowledge with others. Meredith enjoys capturing the beauty of nature through her camera lens and teaching others the art of photography. In addition to her career as a photographer, she also works as an outdoor guide, leading groups through the wilderness and sharing her passion for photography and the great outdoors. When not teaching or guiding, you will most likely find her backpacking or trail running with her canine companion, Lambchop.
University of California, Irvine
Interviewing, Negotiating a Job Offer, and Career Planning
Prepare yourself for interviewing and landing a job in the DS/AI field. In this course, we will discuss what needs to be done before, during, and after the interview process. We will also provide tips and tricks on how to practice for a major component of data science interviews: the technical interview. Finally, this course will cover best practices for accepting or declining a job offer, salary negotiations, and how to create a career development plan. By the end of this course, students will be able to: • Recall what actions need to be done before, during, and after an interview. • Discuss a technical interview preparation plan. • Identify job offer acceptance or refusal best practices. • Create a career development plan.
Google Cloud
AI 时代安全性简介
人工智能 (AI) 具备巨大的变革潜力，但也带来了新的安全挑战。本课程专为负责安全性和数据保护的领导者而设计，助其运用相关策略在组织内安全管理 AI。学习一个有助于实现以下目标的框架：主动识别并减轻 AI 特有的风险，保护敏感数据，确保遵从法规，构建弹性 AI 基础设施。通过四个不同行业的精选用例，探索这些策略如何应用于现实场景。
Packt
Learn Tableau by Working on Exciting Dashboards
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. Unlock the power of data storytelling with Tableau by diving into this hands-on, project-based course. You'll develop foundational Tableau skills and learn to build visually compelling dashboards that translate data into insights. Whether you're exploring customer behavior, financial performance, or media trends, this course equips you to turn raw data into clear visual narratives. Your journey starts with a crash course in Tableau fundamentals, including dimensions, measures, and calculated fields. As you progress, you’ll explore Level of Detail (LOD) expressions and quick table calculations before applying your skills to real-world scenarios. From building sales and Netflix analysis dashboards to crafting dynamic KPI views, each section adds depth to your visual analytics toolkit. This course is perfect for analysts, marketers, business students, or anyone seeking to tell better stories with data. No prior Tableau experience is required, but basic familiarity with spreadsheets or data will be helpful. The course is ideal for beginners looking to gain practical, job-ready Tableau skills. By the end of this course, you will be able to create polished, interactive dashboards using Tableau, visualize complex data sets, perform insightful analysis, and integrate various chart types and KPIs to tell compelling stories with your data.
Illinois Tech
Relational Database Implementation and Applications
In today's data-driven world, the ability to work with relational databases is an essential skill for professionals in various fields. This course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and practical skills needed to become proficient in database management and application development. Whether you are pursuing a career as a database administrator, software developer, or data analyst, this course provides you with a strong foundation to excel in your chosen field. By the end of this course, students will be able to: • Describe relational databases and their core components, including tables, rows, columns, and keys. • Implement relational database and usage of indexes, views, triggers, temporary tables, functions, and stored procedures. • Describe their role in enforcing business logic and data integrity in database environment. • Apply database design and SQL knowledge to real-world application development. • Develop database-driven applications using programming languages, such as Java, Python or C/C++ and frameworks. • Describe the concepts of indexing and hashing in efficient support for search operations. • Describe the concepts of transactions and their properties (ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability). • Define concurrency control and understand the impact of uncontrolled concurrent transactions on data integrity. Software Requirements: VS Code editor, MySQL Workbench, PostgreSQL To succeed in this course, learners should possess a solid understanding of relational database design. If you haven't yet mastered these skills, we strongly recommend completing Introduction to Relational Databases and Relational Database Design beforehand. These foundational courses are designed to equip you with the essential knowledge necessary to excel in this material.
Columbia University
Construction Cost Estimating and Cost Control
This course introduces the types of cost estimation from the conceptual design phase through the more detailed design phase of a construction project. In addition, the course highlights the importance of controlling costs and how to monitor project cash flow. Learners will work on a break-even analysis of construction tasks in a project. The course begins with Professor Odeh providing an overview of what will be covered. Next, learners explore the stages of design in a construction project. Professor Odeh then describes the types of cost estimates in a construction project, and the tools and methods used to create estimates. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Acquire the fundamentals of cost estimation and the design phase to perform cost estimation -Learn about cost control and cost control methods, emphasizing the Earned Value Method or EVM -Understand the close out period of the project by exploring the punch lists, final approval, and turnover to the client
Logical Operations
HTML5: Content Authoring with New and Advanced Features
HTML5 is the latest generation of markup languages used to create content for the web. It is also used as a programming language for mobile (smartphone and tablet) application development. When people say "HTML5," they typically mean not only the latest version of HTML, but also CSS, JavaScript®, and various markup languages used to represent other kinds of web content, such as SVG (graphics) and MathML (mathematical formulas). Web browsers, which display content coded in these languages, have evolved rapidly over the last few years. This course focuses on the new and advanced features of HTML5, covering how to create HTML5 and CSS3 markup that will work well on the widest possible variety of web browsers, mobile devices, and machine readers, such as search engine web crawlers. The course also demonstrates how to use advanced HTML5 multimedia features such as video, audio, and animation. This course is designed for those who have experience authoring content in HTML and CSS, and want to learn how to use new HTML5 and CSS3 features. This course can be taught on Windows®, Mac OS® X, or Linux®, and supports developers who work in any of those environments. Although JavaScript® knowledge is helpful, HTML and CSS are the focus, so this course does not require that the learner have extensive JavaScript skills. In this course, you will: optimize HTML content to take advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 features; write advanced CSS3 selectors and media queries; use advanced background and border options introduced in CSS3; use advanced text formatting options introduced in CSS3; use HTML5 graphics and multimedia elements, including transforms, animation, audio, and video; and follow best practices to enable HTML content to be successfully processed by many different web browsers and machine readers. This course requires that you have access to several different web browsers, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, and a text editor with line numbering and syntax coloring. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
Sustainable Infrastructure Project Financing
In this course, you will learn concepts about structuring and financing sustainable infrastructure projects and the role of the private sector in mobilizing capital for such projects. You will also learn about the available funds and innovative financial instruments for various sustainable infrastructure projects. Upon completing the course, you will be able to identify different sources and opportunities for financing sustainable infrastructure projects, thereby contributing to the development of Latin America and the Caribbean. With guidance from international professionals and experts in the field, you will be able to distinguish innovative financial structures and instruments for sustainable infrastructure projects aligned with the pipeline of bankable projects and identify concessional financing; principles, impact, and types of projects that utilize this type of financing.
Logical Operations
Effective Interpersonal Communication for Business
To be successful in the workplace, you must be able to effectively communicate and cooperate with coworkers and external people. The typical students of this course will be business professionals who want to enhance their communication skills to interact more effectively with superiors, colleagues, team members, customers, and vendors, and ultimately improve their overall job performance. In this course, you will use a variety of methods to communicate effectively with people in many different roles in an organization. You will: • Interact productively with others in the workplace on a day-to-day basis. • Build positive relationships with diverse individuals. • Consider organizational communication systems. • Communicate with peers. • Communicate with supervisors. • Communicate with external people. • Communicate during conflict and change.
Arizona State University
Communicating In Groups and Teams
Do you want to handle team communications with greater clarity and focus? Learn to set expectations and guide group discussions in this Communicating in Groups and Teams course!
Anthropic
Building with the Claude API
This course teaches developers how to build applications with Claude's API. Through seven modules, you'll learn API fundamentals, prompt engineering, tool use, retrieval systems, and agentic workflows. By the end, you'll be able to build production applications that use Claude for tasks ranging from simple requests to autonomous agents. Learners will build applications including chat interfaces, evaluation pipelines, tool-enabled systems, retrieval augmented generation implementations, and autonomous agents. These projects apply skills in API integration, prompt engineering, tool design, vector search, and workflow orchestration.
Logical Operations
Adobe Dreamweaver CC (2017): Part 2
You are familiar with creating web pages and now you will use Adobe® Dreamweaver® CC (2017) to enhance web pages by adding advanced functions such as movement, media elements, forms, and links to social media. You will also create responsive pages to ensure that your websites are compatible with various modern display devices, such as tablets and smartphones. You will create HTML email for email marketing or email newsletters. Lastly, you will share files over a server to work in a collaborative manner. All this will ensure that you develop a website that retains user interest by providing an engaging user experience across multiple display devices. This course is a great component of your preparation for the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Dreamweaver CC exam and the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Web Authoring Using Adobe Dreamweaver CC exam. This course is designed for those who have some experience using Dreamweaver to design or modify websites and want to learn more. Students may be designing sites for the Internet or sites for their company’s intranet. Students may be creating new sites or redesigning or updating existing sites. Students may be creating HTML email or newsletters. Web design may be only one part of the students’ job duties. Or perhaps web design is the student’s primary job function. Students may be artists or developers who wish to use a WYSIWIG tool for speed and ease of use. In this course, you will: implement basic design principles in writing a website, author a site suitable for both mobile and desktop viewing, create forms, add movement through behaviors and CSS transitions, insert audio and video media, reach your target audience through social media and HTML email marketing, manage website files through testing and synchronizing, and set project requirements. This course requires that you have Adobe Dreamweaver installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.
Alfaisal University | KLD
القيادة المتناقضة كأسلوب تفكير
تتعرض الشركات في جميع أنحاء العالم إلى أنواع عديدة من المشاكل والمتناقضات، ويسعى قادتها لإيجاد الحلول المتاحة للخروج من تلك الأزمات بأقل الخسائر الممكنة، لكنّ لكل مشكلة حلولاً عديدة، فأيهما أفضل: اختيار حل واحد فقط، أم استغلال جميع الحلول المتاحة للوصول إلى حل مبتكر؟ القائد التقليدي (Traditional Leader) الذي ينتمي إلى المدرسة القديمة في علم الإدارة يسعى دائماً لاستخدام منهجية "إما أو"- (Either-or)، بمعنى اختيار حل واحد فقط من مجموعة الحلول المتاحة، أما القائد المتناقض (Paradoxical Leader) فيستخدم منهجية "كلٌّ من، و"-(Both-and)، أي استغلال مزايا جميع الحلول المتاحة، حتى التي تناقض بعضها بعضاً، وبالتالي يستطيع هذا القائد الوصول إلى حل مبتكر. 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 القيادة المتناقضة كأسلوب تفكير، 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: فهم كيفية تقييم مستوى القيادة المتناقضة على مستوى الفرد والمؤسسة، فهم المقصود بالتوازن الديناميكي كآلية عمل للقادة المتناقضين، شرح أهم المتناقضات التي تواجه القادة والسمات الرئيسة التي يتحلون بها كي يتمكنوا من مواجهتها، توضيح خصائص القيادة المتناقضة، شرح الفرق بين القيادة المتناقضة والقيادة التقليدية، فهم المقصود بمصطلح القيادة المتناقضة كأسلوب تفكير وأهميته.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Business English: Basics
This course aims to improve your Business English language skills by developing your vocabulary and reading skills and your understanding of tone, style and knowledge of communication methods. We'll also cover how these language skills can enhance audience analysis, business case analysis and basic business communication strategies. Skills learned in this course will often be referred to and needed to complete the speaking, writing and cross-cultural communications courses of this Specialization. After completing this course, you will be able to: - describe things and events in the context of Business English - make requests in the context of Business English - support arguments in the context of Business English - use appropriate tone and style according to the context of Business English - conduct an audience analysis - match audience with the purpose and medium of communication - analyse and summarise business data
Coursera
Metasploit para Principiantes: Básicos de explotación
Este Proyecto Guiado Metasploit para principiantes: Fundamentos de la explotación te permitirá incursionar en una de las etapas del proceso de ejecución de pruebas de penetración, quizás la etapa más determinante. En este curso basado en proyectos de 45 minutos de duración, aprenderá cómo hacerlo comprendiendo los fundamentos de Metasploit, aprendiendo técnicas de escaneo y enumeración de vulnerabilidades y realizando explotaciones básicas. Para lograr esto, trabajaremos a través de el reconocimiento de los módulos, comandos y usos de metasploit. Este proyecto es único porque te permitirá prácticar en un entorno propio y controlado escenarios que puedes evidenciar en entornos reales. Para tener éxito en este proyecto, te recomiendo conocer bien el modelo OSI, tráfico de red, protocolo TCP/IP, el uso de comandos de Linux y manejar software de virtualización.
Johns Hopkins University
Health Information Technology Fundamentals
In this course you will receive an overview of the health IT ecosystem with a specific focus on the role of electronic health records (EHRs). You’ll be introduced to the factors that contributed to the move from paper records to digitized records and who the most common vendors are. We’ll go over features of EHRs such as computerized provider order entry, clinical decision support, documentation capabilities, and medication reconciliation. Like a physician’s stethoscope, the EHR has become an important tool in healthcare delivery and plays a part throughout the patient’s journey. You’ll go through each of the steps from patient scheduling, to front desk registration, outpatient visits, emergency room encounters, and inpatient admissions. During the course, we’ll also cover examples of how technical issues related to the EHR can be as simple as problems with logging or password resets. But how they can also be more complex related to alerts that are firing and the display of information. Although some of those challenges are beyond the scope of the IT support staff, having familiarity with the scope of potential problems and the broader EHR landscape is important. This course also includes an introduction to database architecture, servers, and interfaces. We wrap up by discussing the importance of training end-users on healthcare technology and the way in which effective change management strategies are crucial.