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PracticalGrowth
Meeting Mastery: Clear Outcomes, Better Decisions
e.g. This is primarily aimed at first- and second-year undergraduates interested in engineering or science, along with high school students and professionals with an interest in programming.Meetings shouldn’t be where work goes to die. In this course, you’ll learn a practical system for turning meetings into clear outcomes, better decisions, and consistent follow-through—whether your team is in-person, remote, or hybrid. You’ll start by diagnosing why meetings fail and how to decide when you shouldn’t meet at all. Then you’ll learn to define purpose and outcome statements, choose the right meeting type and cadence, and design agendas that drive results instead of endless discussion. You’ll also master the “before the meeting” work: writing pre-reads that people actually read, selecting the right participants using RACI/RASCI, and assigning roles that keep meetings moving. From there, you’ll level up your facilitation: timeboxing, WIP limits, inclusive techniques that surface every voice, and decision frameworks like RAPID and reversible vs. one-way decisions. Finally, you’ll build habits that stick—capturing decisions and action items so progress doesn’t evaporate after the call ends. By the end, you’ll be able to run fewer meetings—and make the ones you keep dramatically more effective.
John Wiley & Sons
Management and Leadership Skills for Managers
Based on the best-selling book, The Manager's Handbook, by David Dodson. This course offers a practical, action-oriented framework for mastering key leadership skills that are critical in the business world. Focused on building high-performing teams, managing time effectively, leveraging feedback, setting priorities, and driving quality, the course provides proven techniques to help you lead with impact. You will learn to implement effective strategies that help improve team performance, make smarter decisions, and create a culture of excellence. These real-world skills will immediately apply to your management responsibilities, enhancing your leadership abilities and organizational impact. What sets this course apart is its combination of theory and hands-on application. Through clear, concise steps and actionable strategies, you will gain the tools to address real leadership challenges and achieve measurable results in your work environment. This course is ideal for aspiring or current managers, team leads, and business professionals looking to refine their leadership approach. No advanced experience is required, just a commitment to applying these skills for career growth and improved business outcomes. From The Manager's Handbook Copyright © 2023 by David Dodson. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Google Cloud
Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation 한국어
이 속성 주문형 과정에서는 참가자에게 Google Cloud에서 제공하는 포괄적이고 유연한 인프라 및 플랫폼 서비스를 소개합니다. 참가자는 동영상 강의, 데모, 실무형 실습이 결합된 이 과정을 통해 안전한 네트워크 상호 연결, 부하 분산, 자동 확장, 인프라 자동화, 관리형 서비스가 포함된 솔루션 요소를 살펴보고 배포할 수 있습니다.
Coursera
Facebook Watch: Create Engaging Videos
Learn how to create short-form videos optimized for Facebook Watch that boost engagement and grow your audience. This course covers the video production process—from planning and scripting to filming, editing, and publishing—with a focus on creating content that captures attention in the first few seconds. You'll explore best practices for visual storytelling, silent viewing optimization, and leveraging Facebook’s native video tools. With a tutorial and hands-on video project, you’ll build the skills to produce compelling, mobile-first videos that perform well on Facebook Watch.
Pearson
CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005: Unit 4
This course starts with advanced security settings, where you'll learn to manage access control lists, file system attributes, and privilege escalation using tools like sudo and Policykit. As you continue, you'll explore Linux networking, learning to manage interfaces, static routes, DNS clients, and analyze network traffic with tcpdump and nmap. The course also covers the systemd service manager, teaching you to manage service states, create custom configurations, and understand service dependencies. Each lesson includes practical labs to help you apply your skills in real-world situations.
Coursera
Automate Blog Advertisements with Zapier
Zapier is the industry leader in task automation and gives users the ability to not only organize but to automate social media posting. By the end of this project, you will be able to set up an account with Zapier. You will learn how to connect your blog site to Zapier and then send out automated social media messages to your owned social media accounts. This is a great tool to use if you are blogging once a week or less and want to maximize your time spent on other tasks. Blogging is one of the most recognized ways of improving traffic to websites. However, for this to work a blog needs a reliable way to share new blogs with its audiences. Using Zapier to automate this task will save you time and allow you to share your content with your audience immediately - rather than when you remember too! Zapier is the industry leader in task automation and gives users the ability to not only organize but to automate social media posting. 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.
The University of Edinburgh
Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences
Course Description What is our role in the universe as human agents capable of knowledge? What makes us intelligent cognitive agents seemingly endowed with consciousness? This is the second part of the course 'Philosophy and the Sciences', dedicated to Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences. Scientific research across the cognitive sciences has raised pressing questions for philosophers. The goal of this course is to introduce you to some of the main areas and topics at the key juncture between philosophy and the cognitive sciences. Each week we will introduce you to some of these important questions at the forefront of scientific research. We will explain the science behind each topic in a simple, non-technical way, while also addressing the philosophical and conceptual questions arising from it. Areas you’ll learn about will include: Philosophy of psychology, among whose issues we will cover the evolution of the human mind and the nature of consciousness. Philosophy of neurosciences, where we’ll consider the nature of human cognition and the relation between mind, machines, and the environment. Learning objectives Gain a fairly well-rounded view on selected areas and topics at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences Understand some key questions, and conceptual problems arising in the cognitive sciences. Develop critical skills to evaluate and assess these problems. Suggested Readings To accompany 'Philosophy and the Sciences', we are pleased to announce a tie-in book from Routledge entitled 'Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone'. This course companion to the 'Philosophy and the Sciences' course was written by the Edinburgh Philosophy and the Sciences team expressly with the needs of MOOC students in mind. 'Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone' contains clear and user-friendly chapters, chapter summaries, glossary, study questions, suggestions for further reading and guides to online resources. Please note, this companion book is optional - all the resources needed to complete the course are available freely and listed on the course site. Learners can apply for Financial Aid directly with Coursera to assist with the cost of accessing the full course and gaining a certificate for successfully completing the course.
Google Cloud
Machine Learning Operations with Vertex AI: Model Evaluation
This course equips machine learning practitioners with the essential tools, techniques, and best practices for evaluating both generative and predictive AI models. Model evaluation is a critical discipline for ensuring that ML systems deliver reliable, accurate, and high-performing results in production. Participants will gain a deep understanding of various evaluation metrics, methodologies, and their appropriate application across different model types and tasks. The course will emphasize the unique challenges posed by generative AI models and provide strategies for tackling them effectively. By leveraging Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, participants will learn how to implement robust evaluation processes for model selection, optimization, and continuous monitoring.
Google Cloud
BigQuery: Qwik Start - Console
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. This lab shows you how to query public tables and load sample data into BigQuery using the Web UI. Watch the short videos Get Meaningful Insights with Google BigQuery and BigQuery: Qwik Start - Qwiklabs Preview.
University of California, Davis
Managing as a Coach
Do you (or do you want to) manage employees? Have you ever wondered how to get better performance out of those you manage? Are you unsure if you are communicating effectively with your employees? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this course – and its associated specialization – is for you! Leadership and management responsibilities have changed dramatically, particularly in the last decade. In order to be an effective manager in increasingly fast-paced and complex organizational environments, coaching has become essential. In this course, you will learn what coaching is and learn how to differentiate between it and all of the other myriad roles managers are expected to perform – managing, mentoring, leading, and training. You’ll learn about the importance of strong leadership and learn to describe your current point of view as a leader, and evaluate when to adjust your thinking in order to be more effective in managing and leading in a rapidly evolving workplace. And finally, you’ll be introduced to the Thought Model, a coaching technique you can use to develop better thinkers and better performers. So if you’re ready to learn all about how to be a more effective and valued manager using coaching techniques, join us as we explore more successful managing through coaching!
Duke University
Introduction to Generative AI
This introductory course is designed for beginners with no prior knowledge of generative AI. You will start by gaining a high-level understanding of what generative AI is and how it works. Through interactive lessons and hands-on examples, you will learn fundamental skills like providing effective prompts and iteratively improving the generated outputs. As the course progresses, you will dive deeper into specific major generative AI models, including their unique capabilities and limitations. Finally,, you will get practical experience using leading systems like GitHub Copilot, DALL-E, and OpenAI to generate code, images, and text. By the end, you will have developed core knowledge to start experimenting with generative AI in a responsible and effective way for a variety of applications. This course aims to provide a friendly introduction to prepare complete beginners for further exploration of this rapidly evolving technology.
Google
Use AI Responsibly
Use AI responsibly by mitigating biases and inaccuracies. Learn how to identify potential AI harms and recognize the security risks of using AI in the workplace. By the end of this course, you will gain an understanding of how to use AI responsibly and effectively.
Cisco Learning and Certifications
Providing Customers Internet Connectivity using BGP
This course offers an in-depth exploration of how customer networks connect to internet service providers (ISPs) to enable critical applications like intranet VPNs, extranets, and broader internet access. You will gain practical knowledge on designing and implementing network connectivity considering physical connection types, redundancy, IP addressing, and autonomous system (AS) numbering to meet both business and technical needs. The course uniquely covers static routing for single and multiple connections to a single ISP, and advances to multihomed strategies using multiple ISPs for maximum redundancy. You will explore configuring routing protocols—especially BGP—to support backup links, load balancing, and proper interaction between customer and provider networks. Additionally, the course tackles scalability challenges in complex service provider environments, addressing IGP and BGP interactions and IP addressing that ensure network stability and efficiency. With a comprehensive curriculum including videos, readings, and hands-on assignments, this course equips network designers and administrators with the expertise to build robust, scalable, and resilient internet connectivity solutions. Its focus on real-world configurations and multilevel connectivity makes it an essential learning experience for professionals aiming to excel in modern network design and management.
Coursera
Optimize Growth: Map and Evaluate ROI
Optimize Growth: Map and Evaluate ROI is a beginner-level course designed for aspiring business analysts, marketers, and strategists who want to master the foundational skills of driving and measuring business growth. This course will equip you to move beyond ideas and build compelling, data-backed business cases. You will learn to apply the Ansoff Matrix, a powerful strategic framework, to systematically identify and map potential growth opportunities, from market penetration to diversification. Through a series of expert-led videos, practical readings, and interactive dialogues, you will learn not only how to build a growth strategy but also how to quantify its potential by forecasting revenue impact. The course then pivots to performance, teaching you how to conduct a thorough postmortem analysis of a campaign. You will learn to evaluate the actual ROI against target KPIs, diagnose the reasons for any variance, and formulate clear, actionable recommendations for future optimization.
Johns Hopkins University
Culminating Project in Health Informatics
This capstone course in the Health Informatics Specialization will allow learners to create a comprehensive plan for an informatics intervention of their choosing, and that will demonstrate to current or future employers the new skills obtained through the completion of this series of five courses in Health Informatics.
Xi'an Jiaotong University
c#高级编程
本课程讲述C#的全部语法，学习如何使用C#编写控制台程序。内容涉及数组、方法、类与对象等知识。课程同时讲述面向对象的编程思想，学习如何使用类和对象构建程序。课程同时也会简单讨论 .NET的架构和简单的数据结构和算法。 本课程的学习重点是2个：（1）C#的语法（2）面向对象的编程方法。课程使用大量的例子来讲述，引导学习者由易到难，由浅入深的掌握整个课程的内容。本课程不需要有其他语言的编程经验。通过本课程的学习，你将真正进入程序设计的世界。