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University of Colorado Boulder
Animals and Institutions
This course explores animals within the context of the functional relationships that sociologists call “institutions.” We first examine the use of animals in laboratory science. We then examine the controversial transformation of animals into “livestock” and "meat." We also explore the perspectives of people committed to rejecting the construction and use of animals as food. Next, we focus on some of the roles of animals in human entertainment with particular attention to dog fighting and zoos. Finally, we investigate animal health and welfare through the lens of dilemmas in veterinary medicine and decisions in animal shelters.
EDUCBA
Kubernetes: Build, Configure & Troubleshoot Clusters
By the end of this Kubernetes Training, learners will be able to identify Kubernetes components, explain cluster architecture, configure clusters on AWS, set up environments with Kubeadm, and apply troubleshooting techniques using Minikube. This course is designed to move beyond theory, providing hands-on demonstrations that empower learners to create, manage, and scale containerized applications in both cloud and local environments. Learners will benefit from completing this course by gaining practical, job-ready skills essential for DevOps engineers, cloud administrators, and software developers seeking to excel in container orchestration. Through step-by-step guidance, participants will confidently build clusters, join worker nodes, troubleshoot failures, and test deployments in real-world scenarios. What makes this course unique is its modular structure that bridges fundamentals with advanced practices, combining AWS-based cluster management with local experimentation via Minikube. Each lesson is designed with clear learning objectives rooted in Bloom’s Taxonomy, ensuring learners not only understand Kubernetes but can also demonstrate, configure, and evaluate it effectively in professional contexts.
LearnQuest
Cybersecurity Champion: Be a Change Leader with AI
This beginner-level course empowers career-switchers and early-career IT professionals to champion cybersecurity transformation in workplaces adopting AI. The course offers a proven blueprint for building strong, resilient security cultures and driving organizational change, drawing examples from North America, Europe, and India—key markets for Coursera career advancement and regulatory need. Learners will address real business challenges, build hands-on skills in AI threat recognition, compliance, and influence, and emerge ready to lead secure, collaborative, data-driven teams.
Microsoft
Azure Monitoring and Analytics Fundamentals
In this course, you’ll explore the fundamentals of Azure Monitoring and Analytics. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the key features offered by Azure Monitor, setting the stage for proficient resource management. Learn to configure basic monitoring in Azure, enabling proactive measures to ensure optimal resource performance. Dive into the intricacies of setting up and managing alerts based on diverse conditions and thresholds, ensuring a timely response to critical situations. Delve further into advanced monitoring techniques, exploring the power of Log Analytics and custom dashboards. Equip yourself with the skills needed for effective troubleshooting and system performance optimization. After completing this course, you’ll be able to: • Identify and discuss the key features of Azure Monitor. • Configure basic monitoring in Azure for proactive resource management. • Set up and manage alerts based on various conditions and thresholds to ensure timely response. • Utilize advanced monitoring techniques, including Log Analytics and custom dashboards, for troubleshooting and optimizing system performance. This is also a great way to prepare for the Microsoft AZ-900 exam. By passing the AZ-900 exam, you’ll earn the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification. This is a beginner-level course aimed at aspiring IT professionals looking to build a career in cloud support. To be successful in this course, you do not need an existing IT background, but you should have a fundamental understanding of cloud computing, the Microsoft Azure platform, virtual machines, and network traffic principles.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Integrated Analysis in Systems Biology
This course will focus on developing integrative skills through directed reading and analysis of the current primary literature to enable the student to develop the capstone project as the overall final exam for the specialization in systems biology.
EDUCBA
Apache Spark: Design & Execute ETL Pipelines Hands-On
This hands-on course equips learners with the skills to design, build, and manage end-to-end ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows using Apache Spark in a real-world data engineering context. Structured into two comprehensive modules, the course begins with foundational setup, guiding learners through the installation of essential components such as PySpark, Hadoop, and MySQL. Participants will learn how to configure their environment, organize project structures, and explore source datasets effectively. As the course progresses, learners will develop Spark applications to perform full and incremental data loads using JDBC integration with MySQL. Through practical examples, they will apply transformation logic using Spark SQL, filter data based on business rules, and handle common pitfalls such as type mismatches and folder structure issues during Spark deployment. By the end of the course, learners will be able to construct, execute, and optimize Spark-based ETL pipelines that are scalable and production-ready, empowering them to contribute effectively in real-world data engineering roles.
Packt
Scaling, Access Control, and Exam preparation with Vault
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. Take your HashiCorp Vault expertise to the next level with this comprehensive course on scaling, access control, and certification exam readiness. You'll learn how to optimize Vault performance, implement fine-grained access controls, and prepare for real-world deployment scenarios. Starting with performance scaling, you’ll explore batch tokens, performance standby nodes, and replication strategies to enhance Vault’s efficiency and reliability. Through hands-on demos, you’ll gain practical experience in configuring performance replication and path filters to fine-tune access management. Next, you'll dive deep into Vault’s access control mechanisms, covering identity entities, policies, control groups, and namespaces. You'll learn how to configure and enforce access controls with Sentinel policies, ensuring secure and compliant operations. The course also includes practical guidance on setting up Vault Agent for auto-authentication and templating. Finally, you’ll get an inside look at the Vault certification exam experience, with tips on what to expect and how to approach the test. This course is perfect for security engineers, DevOps professionals, and system administrators looking to scale Vault effectively and validate their expertise. A solid understanding of Vault fundamentals is recommended.
Michigan State University
Cameras, Exposure, and Photography
Welcome to Course One of Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR! In these first 4 Modules you will gain the knowledge and the confidence that will help you make good choices as you consider qualities of the camera you own, and the qualities of the other types of digital cameras you might be considering. You will learn about the basic functions that most digital cameras have in common. You will also go beyond the "technical" matters and learn about how you can make exciting pictures by emphasizing the aspects of Frame and Vantage Point to interpret old subjects in new ways. Discovering accessories that photographers find useful, and the types of camera bags from mini to carry-on sized, is also in store for you. You will also make your first photographs and, if you are a subscriber to the specialization, upload pictures to the web gallery and start interacting with your fellow learners in our "Gallery." Let's get started with Module One!
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Introduction to Neutrino Physics
This course aims to show you what neutrinos are, their history, and how they can be crucial to understand our universe. A very important problem nowadays is the asymmetry between matter and antimatter. We are made of matter and exist because of this asymmetry. We don’t understand this imbalance and neutrinos can be a very useful insight. We will cover this and see how this research is also very useful to society.
Google Cloud
API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
In this course, you learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. You learn about the API life cycle, and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of the life cycle. You learn about how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as API products to be used by app developers. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform. This is the first course of the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform series. After completing this course, enroll in the API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform course.
Coursera
Understand RAG Basics
"Understand RAG Basics" is an intermediate course for developers and data scientists who want to build more powerful and trustworthy AI applications. While Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionary, they often lack specific, up-to-date knowledge and can hallucinate answers. This 2-hour course provides the fundamental solution: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). You will need to be familiar with basic Python, API, and LLMs. You will also need Python and a code editor like VS Code installed locally. Focused on practical application, this course transitions from theory to execution. You will begin by learning to diagram the core components of a RAG architecture (the retriever, the generator, and the vector database) to understand its data flow. Then, you will translate that knowledge into a functioning application. Through a hands-on project that mirrors a real-world job task, you will use Python to build a minimal RAG pipeline, complete with a local vector store, to successfully ground an LLM with external facts. By the end, you'll be able to build intelligent systems that provide accurate, context-aware answers derived from your own data.
Coursera
Survey Samples: Size and Methods
Survey Samples: Size and Methods is a foundational course for aspiring market research analysts and professionals designing statistically sound studies. It builds essential quantitative skills to move from guesswork to confident, data-driven research design. You will learn the key differences between probability and non-probability sampling and how to select the proper method for any research objective. The course emphasizes practical application, guiding you through calculating valid sample sizes using confidence levels and margins of error, with hands-on practice using a sample size calculator to ensure reliable, defensible results. By the end of this course, you will be able to justify your methodological choices and design surveys that deliver trustworthy, decision-ready insights—balancing rigor with real-world business constraints of speed and cost.
Google Cloud
Gemini in Google Docs - Português Brasileiro
O Gemini para Google Workspace é um complemento que oferece acesso a recursos de IA generativa. Este curso discute as funcionalidades do Gemini nos Documentos Google usando aulas em vídeo, atividades e exemplos práticos. Você vai aprender a usar o Gemini para gerar conteúdo de texto com base em comandos e vai descobrir como usar o complemento para editar texto já escrito e melhorar sua produtividade. Ao final do curso, você terá as habilidades e o conhecimento necessários para usar o Gemini nos Documentos Google e melhorar sua escrita.
University of Colorado Boulder
Managing, Describing, and Analyzing Data
In this course, you will learn the basics of understanding the data you have and why correctly classifying data is the first step to making correct decisions. You will describe data both graphically and numerically using descriptive statistics and R software. You will learn four probability distributions commonly used in the analysis of data. You will analyze data sets using the appropriate probability distribution. Finally, you will learn the basics of sampling error, sampling distributions, and errors in decision-making. This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Data Science (MS-DS) degree offered on the Coursera platform. The MS-DS is an interdisciplinary degree that brings together faculty from CU Boulder’s departments of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Science, and others. With performance-based admissions and no application process, the MS-DS is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience in computer science, information science, mathematics, and statistics. Learn more about the MS-DS program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/master-of-science-data-science-boulder.
Google Cloud
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio - Português Brasileiro
Neste curso, vamos conhecer o Vertex AI Studio, uma ferramenta para interagir com modelos de IA generativa, prototipar ideias comerciais e colocá-las em produção. Com a ajuda de um caso de uso imersivo, lições interessantes e um laboratório, você vai conhecer o ciclo de vida do comando à produção, além de usar o Vertex AI Studio para aplicativos multimodais do Gemini, design e engenharia de comandos e ajuste de modelos. O objetivo é permitir que você descubra todo o potencial da IA generativa nos seus projetos com o Vertex AI Studio.
University of Michigan
Sustainable Consumption and Health
This course is an introductory and foundational course on sustainable consumption and health. In the first part of this course, we briefly review definitions of sustainability and the relationship between the three dimensions of sustainability and the UN-Environment Sustainable Environment Goals (SDGs), target and indicators. We then look at frameworks, indicators and footprint requirements to adequately measure sustainability, offering the opportunity to the participants to assess their own carbon and environmental footprint and make recommendation on how to reduce it. We then address the theme of sustainable consumption, looking at our main domains of consumption and at the key conditions to reach sustainable consumption and avoid rebounds effects that tend to reduce the benefits of increased product efficiency. We finally look at "what is good enough" for a given product or activity, in relationship with absolute sustainability and planetary boundaries. In the second part focusing on health, we will first identify the main factors affecting health, define DALYs (disability-adjusted life years) as a key metric to measure health burden, and use the rich information made available by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD). We will then use the GBD visualization tool to quantify and compare the respective burdens associated with 70 risks factors and numerous disease causes, in every country of the world and even at the state level for the US. We finally analyze the health impact associated with global trade, evaluating the fraction of the health impacts due to fine particulate in Asia, that are induced by Western consumption.