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Vanderbilt University
Case Studies in Personalized Medicine
Learn how advances in biomedicine hold the potential to revolutionize drug development, drug treatments, and disease prevention: where are we now, and what does the future hold? This course will present short primers in genetics and mechanisms underlying variability in drug responses. A series of case studies will be used to illustrate principles of how genetics are being brought to bear on refining diagnoses and on personalizing treatment in rare and common diseases. The ethical and operational issues around how to implement large scale genomic sequencing in clinical practice will be addressed. After completing this course, learners will understand 1. The ways in which genetic variants can contribute to human disease susceptibility 2. How to choose among drug therapies based on genetic factors 3. That the functional consequences of the vast majority of genetic variants discovered by modern sequencing are unknown. This course is targeted primarily at physicians 5+ years out of training. Other healthcare providers, medical/health sciences students, and members of the public may also be interested. Course launches January 15, 2016. * The information presented in “Case Studies in Personalized Medicine” is offered for educational and informational purposes only, and should not be construed as personal medical advice. If you have questions or concerns about a medical matter, please consult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider.
Universidad de los Andes
Enseñanza de las matemáticas de primaria
En este tercer curso de acceso gratuito* del programa especializado Educación Matemática para profesores de primaria, conocerás los conceptos y técnicas para planificar e implementar tus clases. El curso tiene una duración aproximada de seis semanas, con una dedicación promedio de 4 horas semanales. Todas las evaluaciones tienen retroalimentación y podrás descargar la mayoría de los recursos del curso. Este curso se basa en la información y los conocimientos que desarrollamos en los dos cursos anteriores de nuestro programa: Contenido de las matemáticas de primaria y Aprendizaje de las matemáticas de primaria. Te recomendamos tomar esos dos cursos antes de tomar este. Estos cursos también están disponibles en Coursera. Este curso incluye videos de presentación y explicación de los temas, actividades de aprendizaje y evaluación, revisión por pares, mapas conceptuales, y bibliografía adicional. La evaluación está diseñada para que recibas realimentación que queda registrada en la plataforma, de manera que puedas continuar con tu progreso al conectarte nuevamente. Puedes descargar la mayoría de los contenidos para que los uses sin conexión a Internet. La Universidad de los Andes desarrolló el programa especializado Educación Matemática para profesores de primaria gracias al apoyo de United Way Colombia, el Fondo Puentes de Caña, la Fundación SM y la Fundación Compartir, con la colaboración de la Fundación de la Universidad de los Andes en Nueva York, Estados Unidos. * Al inscribirte al curso, puedes elegir la opción que más te interese: sin certificación, en cuyo caso tendrás acceso a todo el contenido y evaluaciones del curso de forma gratuita; o con certificación, en cuyo caso deberás aprobar un cuestionario de evaluación por módulo y cumplir con los demás requisitos de la plataforma: hacer la verificación de identidad al presentar las evaluaciones obligatorias, lograr el porcentaje mínimo para pasar el curso y pagar directamente a Coursera el precio de la certificación anunciado en la plataforma.
Coursera
Design Engaging Social Media Visuals Fast
Ready to stop wrestling with cropped logos and pixelated graphics? Master the fundamentals of professional social media visual creation in under 90 minutes. This Short Course was created to help digital marketing professionals accomplish consistent, on-brand visual content creation across all major social media platforms. By completing this course, you'll be able to confidently create pixel-perfect graphics that display flawlessly on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn while maintaining your brand's professional appearance. No more guesswork about image sizes or brand consistency – you'll have the technical specifications and design workflows to produce engaging visuals that stop the scroll. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Identify the correct image dimensions for posts across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Create professional social media graphics using brand guidelines in Canva. Export optimized graphics for immediate use in social media content workflows. This course is unique because it combines technical precision with creative application, giving you both the specifications knowledge and hands-on design skills needed for immediate workplace impact. To be successful in this project, you should have basic familiarity with social media platforms and willingness to learn design tools.
DeepLearning.AI
Applied Statistics for Data Analytics
Throughout this course, you will learn the fundamental statistical concepts, analyses, and visualizations that serve as the foundation for a career as a data analyst. Whether you're new to statistics or looking to refresh your skills, this course will equip you with powerful techniques to extract meaningful insights from your data. By the end of this course, you will feel more confident and capable of implementing rigorous statistical analyses in your career as a data analyst! In the first module, you’ll explore the essential building blocks of statistics that enable rigorous data analysis. By the end, you’ll be able to define populations, samples, and sampling methods; characterize datasets using measures of central tendency, variability, and skewness; use correlation to understand relationships between features; and employ segmentation to reveal insights about different groups within your data. You’ll apply these concepts to real-world scenarios: analyzing movie ratings and durations over time, explaining customer behavior, and exploring healthcare outcomes. In the second module, you’ll cover key probability rules and concepts like conditional probability and independence, all with real-world examples you’ll encounter as a data analyst. Then you’ll explore probability distributions, both discrete and continuous. You'll learn about important distributions like the binomial and normal distributions, and how they model real-world phenomena. You’ll also see how you can use sample data to understand the distribution of your population, and how to answer common business questions like how common are certain outcomes or ranges of outcomes? Finally, you’ll get hands on with simulation techniques. You'll see how to generate random data following specific distributions, allowing you to model complex scenarios and inform decision-making. In modules 3 and 4, you'll learn powerful techniques to draw conclusions about populations based on sample data. This is your first foray into inferential statistics. You’ll start by constructing confidence intervals - a way to estimate population parameters like means and proportions with a measure of certainty. You'll learn how to construct and interpret these intervals for both means and proportions. You’ll also visualize how this powerful technique helps you manage the inherent uncertainty when investigating many business questions. Next, you’ll conduct hypothesis testing, a cornerstone of statistical inference that helps you determine whether an observed difference reflects random variation or a true difference. You'll discover how to formulate hypotheses, calculate test statistics, and interpret p-values to make data-driven decisions. You’ll learn tests for means and proportions, as well as how to compare two samples. Throughout the course, you’ll use large language models as a thought partner for descriptive and inferential statistics. You'll see how AI can help formulate hypotheses, interpret results, and even perform calculations and create visualizations for those statistics.
Rice University
Personal Leadership Development Planning and Leading High Performing Teams
An actionable leadership improvement plan enables you to leverage strengths and close the gaps on weaknesses. In this course, you will build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals within the next two years. It lays the foundation for an evergreen process of selection and prioritization of skills, and action planning for sustained leadership development.
Wesleyan University
Data Analysis and Interpretation Capstone
The Capstone project will allow you to continue to apply and refine the data analytic techniques learned from the previous courses in the Specialization to address an important issue in society. You will use real world data to complete a project with our industry and academic partners. For example, you can work with our industry partner, DRIVENDATA, to help them solve some of the world's biggest social challenges! DRIVENDATA at www.drivendata.org, is committed to bringing cutting-edge practices in data science and crowdsourcing to some of the world's biggest social challenges and the organizations taking them on. Or, you can work with our other industry partner, The Connection (www.theconnectioninc.org) to help them better understand recidivism risk for people on parole seeking substance use treatment. For more than 40 years, The Connection has been one of Connecticut’s leading private, nonprofit human service and community development agencies. Each month, thousands of people are assisted by The Connection’s diverse behavioral health, family support and community justice programs. The Connection’s Institute for Innovative Practice was created in 2010 to bridge the gap between researchers and practitioners in the behavioral health and criminal justice fields with the goal of developing maximally effective, evidence-based treatment programs. A major component of the Capstone project is for you to be able to choose the information from your analyses that best conveys results and implications, and to tell a compelling story with this information. By the end of the course, you will have a professional quality report of your findings that can be shown to colleagues and potential employers to demonstrate the skills you learned by completing the Specialization.
IIT Bombay
Introduction to Business Management : Winning Externally
Develop a broad understanding of how winning companies operate externally to create successful businesses, build strong market positions and grow profitably over the long term. This comprehensive course provides the knowledge to make informed career choices for students deciding on the next degree, emerging leaders exploring cross-functional opportunities, or entrepreneurs starting a new business. In the first module, 'Market Research, Customers & Segments', you will understand the basics of market research, customer problem identification and developing compelling value propositions. You will learn the skills necessary to study markets, customers and competitors to make sound business decisions. In the second module, 'Value-Based Marketing & Marketing Communication', you will understand how to create and communicate strong customer value. You will learn the principles of branding, advertising, pricing, and communication essential for a strong brand presence. In the third module, 'Sales Channels & Distribution, B2B & B2C Selling', you will explore the critical aspects of sales channels and distribution strategies. You will gain insights into and understand the skills to sell to consumers (B2C) or other businesses (B2B). Finally, in the fourth module, 'Customer Service Management, Supply Chain & Logistics', you will understand how companies optimise their supply chains to deliver products on time and maintain high customer satisfaction. You will learn the processes and skills to manage customer relationships, foster loyalty, and ensure great customer experiences. This course complements 'BUS101 Introduction to Business Management—Winning Internally', which provides the knowledge and skills for superior performance in internal business operations and organisational management.
University of California San Diego
Drug Development
The University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Drug Development course brings you lectures from both faculty and industry experts. With this course, recorded on campus at UCSD, we seek to share our access to top people in the field who bring an unprecedented range of expertise on drug development. In this course you will learn the different stages of clinical development as well as the regulatory including but not limited to, an Investigational New Drug Application (IND), New Drug Application (NDA), and product labeling. Additionally you will learn how to Incorporate study design methods for consideration in the design of clinical protocols to assess safety, tolerability, and efficacy in multiple therapeutic areas. In this course you will learn the different phases of clinical development: * Phase 1 or early stage clinical trial are conducted primarily to determine how the new drug works in humans, its safety profile and to predict its dosage range. It typically involves between 30 and 100 healthy volunteers. * Phase 2 or Proof of Concept POC studies test for efficacy as well as safety and side effects in a group of between 30 to 200 hundred patients with the disease for which the new drug is being developed. * Phase 3 or late stage clinical development involve much larger group of patients, between a few hundred to thousands, depending on the indication, which will help determine if the new drug can be considered both safe and effective. It will involve control groups using placebo and/or current treatment as a comparison. * Product registration and approval process after a drug is considered safe and effective from Phase 3 trials, it must be authorized in each individual country before it can be marketed. All data generated about the small molecule or biologic is collected and submitted to the regulatory authorities in the US at the FDA, Food and Drug Administration FDA, in Europe the EMA or European Medicines Agency, Japan Ministry of Health and other countries which may require their own national approvals. This course is intended as part 2 of a series: Drug Discovery (https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-discovery), Drug Development and Drug Commercialization (https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-commercialization). We would highly recommend that you take the courses in order since it will give you a better understanding on how a drug is discovered in the lab before being tested in clinical trials and then launched in the market place.
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Introduction to Programming with C Language
The 'Introduction to Programming with C Language' course is suitable for learners with no prior programming experience. The course covers the fundamentals of the C programming language. At the end of this course, the learners would be able to write interactive and non-interactive programs for solving many real-world use cases. The course will also provide the necessary foundational knowledge required for taking up more advanced courses in C language and other programming languages as well.
Packt
Software Security Testing
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 learning journey that introduces you to the critical world of software security testing. The course begins with an insightful overview, ensuring you understand the roadmap ahead. You'll then dive into the practical aspects of environment setup, focusing on Kali Linux, a powerful tool for digital forensics and penetration testing. Understanding key terminologies will solidify your foundation, preparing you for the advanced concepts to come. As you progress, you'll explore essential testing methodologies and standards, learning how they shape the software security landscape. The course emphasizes the continuous process of software testing, likening it to a strategic game where each test improves your skills. You'll gain hands-on experience and insights into making software security testing a seamless part of your professional practice. The course culminates in an in-depth examination of software security testing as a process. You'll learn the nuances of different testing methodologies, understand the importance of continuous learning, and see how each test builds on the last. By the end of this course, you'll be well-equipped to tackle real-world security challenges, making significant contributions to your organization’s cybersecurity efforts. This course is ideal for software developers, testers, and security professionals who wish to enhance their skills in software security testing. A basic understanding of software development and testing is recommended to fully benefit from the course.
University of Colorado System
Vibe Coding Fundamentals
This course is ideal for people new to coding. You will learn how to build applications using artificial intelligence. No prior knowledge of coding is needed and everything you need to know is covered in detail. You will leave this course comfortable using vibe coding tools to build applications for business, education, and fun.
LearnQuest
Scrum Master Certification Practice
This course is designed to help Scrum beginners apply gained knowledge to practice. We will review several of the Scrum Methodologies and the Sprint process as well as complete several exercises. This is a standalone course, however we recommend completing the Scrum Master Certification specialization courses prior to beginning this one, as the methodologies and exercises within those courses are the foundations for this practice course.
Institut Mines-Télécom
La Data Intelligence au service des organisations
Avec la prolifération d'objets connectés (ordinateurs, tablettes, montres, etc.), des masses importantes de données sont générées chaque seconde. Ces Big Data ont mené vers l'émergence d'une économie des données, où ces dernières constituent la principale source d'avantage concurrentiel pour les entreprises. En ce sens, les données et leurs outils de traitement sont devenus une priorité stratégique des entreprises et l'accélérateur principal de leur transformation digitale. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ce MOOC aborde donc la place de la donnée dans la transformation digitale des organisations à travers 10 séquences de cours réparties sur 5 semaines et une grande variété de contenus : • Des jeux de slides, vidéo-scribing expliquant l’impact des données dans les entreprises, la transformation digitale pour capitaliser sur les données et les outils, méthodes et technologies pour mettre en œuvre ces stratégies orientées Données • Des vidéos rassemblant les témoignages de professionnels et d'académiciens, qui met en évidence à travers des exemples concrets l'importance de la donnée en tant que catalyseur de la transformation digitale et source d'avantage concurrentiel. • Des lectures obligatoires pour compléter les thèmes abordés dans les slides et vidéo, notamment les défis et bénéfices de la gestion des données dans le cadre de la transformation digitale. • Des QCM portant sur l'ensemble du contenu de chaque chapitre. Un certificat est délivré pour toute note supérieure à 50%. Ce MOOC a reçu le soutien financier de la Fondation Patrick & Lina Drahi.
Packt
Unreal Engine 5 - Environment Design
This course offers a comprehensive journey into the world of environment design using Unreal Engine 5. You will begin with the foundational elements, learning how to brainstorm creative ideas and plan your scene. The course ensures you understand the critical first steps in shaping a 3D environment, making it easier to build complex and visually appealing worlds. As you progress, you will dive deeper into scene setup and development, where you’ll be guided through blocking out the environment. Here, you’ll learn about scene structure, placing key assets, and ensuring your design flows organically. The hands-on approach will help you gain confidence in crafting professional-level environments. Finally, you’ll get to explore the creative side of environment design. You'll refine your scene, adding details that bring it to life. From lighting to scattering assets, this part of the course ensures your environments not only look stunning but are optimized for performance. By the end, you’ll be able to create and finalize polished, immersive 3D environments suitable for games, films, or virtual experiences. This course is designed for aspiring environment artists, game developers, and 3D artists looking to enhance their Unreal Engine 5 skills. A basic understanding of Unreal Engine is recommended, but the course will guide beginners through the process step by step.
Institut Mines-Télécom
Manager dans l'incertain
Le MOOC “Manager dans l’incertain” s’adresse aux étudiants comme aux porteurs de projet et managers (qu'ils soient en activité professionnelle, juniors ou seniors dans leurs domaines de spécialité) mais aussi à tout acteur du monde de l'entreprise susceptible de prendre des décisions dans un contexte imprévisible. Ce MOOC vous invite à suivre une démarche de décision en 12 étapes propre à la méthode du D.M.C. (Decision Model Canvas). Cette méthode vous amènera à vous poser 12 questions essentielles pour être assuré de faire des choix pertinents dans un environnement incertain. Au fil des chapitres et vidéos de ce MOOC, nous vous présenterons les thèses avancées par des chercheurs émérites. Nous évoquerons aussi les travaux de plusieurs prix Nobel, de chercheurs de référence dans différents domaines des Sciences Sociales ainsi que d’essayistes à la frontière des mondes académiques et des affaires (Daniel Kahneman, Herbert Simon, Frank Knight, Icek Ajzen, Nassim Taleb, Dan Ariely, …). Pour approfondir votre expérience d'apprentissage, vous collaborerez avec une communauté internationale d'apprenants tout en travaillant de manière pratique sur vos propres projets. À l’issue de ce MOOC vous serez dans les meilleures conditions possibles pour appréhender minutieusement chacune des cases du D.M.C et faire des choix pertinents dans un environnement imprévisible !
Northwestern University
What is Social?
The “What Is Social?" MOOC is for business owners, executives, and marketing professionals who want to significantly improve their abilities to grow their social strategy using effective, proven methodologies. This hands on, "how to" program won’t just tell you how to grow your professional persona using social – you will actually do it! This course is the first in the six-course specialization, Social Media Marketing: How to Profit in a Digital World. While the course can be audited for free, paid learners will receive additional content beyond the course basics. For MOOC 1, the toolkit includes a special video from Alessandro Acquisti on Big Data and a set of studies done by IBM on engagement and social marketing strategies with bottom-line profits. This course has been designed to give you the tools, insights, knowledge, and skills to immediately impact your organization. In addition, we will help you network with thought leaders in social. After completing this course, you and your organization’s staff will be able to position, engage, and grow relationships with the consumers of highest value to you. Today, we are living in a period of massive disruption. New technologies are changing the way people engage with each other and with the organizations that interest them. This course will start you on the path to growing your own social strategy using effective, proven methodologies. Additional MOOC 1 faculty include: * Judy Ungar Franks (President, The Marketing Democracy, Ltd. & Lecturer, Medill Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern)