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IBM
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Start your cloud computing journey with this self-paced introductory course! Whether you need general cloud computing knowledge for school or business, or you are considering a career change, this beginner-friendly course is right for you. In this course you’ll learn about essential characteristics of cloud computing and emerging technologies supported by cloud. You’ll explore cloud service models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Public, Private, and Hybrid deployment models. Discover the offerings of prominent cloud service providers AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and others, and review cloud computing case studies. Learn about cloud adoption, blockchain, analytics, and AI. You will learn about the many components of cloud computing architecture including datacenters, availability zones, virtual machines, containers, and bare metal servers. You will also familiarize yourself with different types of cloud storage options, such as Object Storage. You’ll gain foundational knowledge of emergent cloud trends and practices including Hybrid, Multicloud, Microservices, Serverless, DevOps, Cloud Native, Application Modernization, as well as learn about cloud security and monitoring. You’ll also explore cloud computing job roles and possible career paths and opportunities. You will complete a number of labs and quizzes throughout this course to increase your understanding of course content. At the end of the course, you will complete a final project where you will deploy an application to Cloud using a serverless architecture, a valuable addition to your portfolio. After this course, check out the related courses to help you towards your new career as a cloud engineer, full stack developer, DevOps engineer, cybersecurity analyst, and others.
Nanjing University
Jewish Diaspora in Modern China
Jewish Diaspora in China is a unique experience for world Jewry, as China is the only country in Far East that has had Jews living in its society for over 1,000 years. Documentary evidence shows that Jews started to live in China no later than the Tang Dynasty (618–907). The famous Kaifeng Jewish community, which was established in Kaifeng, the Chinese capital of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), is but a best-known example. However, the largest Jewish Diaspora in China appeared in modern times. In over 100 years, from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, about 40,000 Jews came to China and lived in newly-established major port cities such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Harbin. Jewish communities composed of these Jews became an essential part of the economic and social life of those modern Chinese cities. What brought such a large number of Jews to China? Where did these people come from? How did they arrive? Were they all in China at the same time, and were there any differences among them? What happened to them after they arrived? Where are they now? The story of Jews in modern China is certainly a fascinating and up-lifting one. This course will examine these questions and more.
Red Hat
Open Practices for your DevOps Journey
Open Practices for your DevOps Journey is a series of learning modules that introduce open principles and team practices to use during product development. Enhanced with video from Red Hat experts, you will learn the skills necessary to help transform how your organization thinks about project planning and execution. Course objectives: Integrate foundation practices from the Open Practice Library into team activities, which improves team culture and technical excellence. Facilitate discovery practices from the Open Practice Library to create alignment on product development target outcomes. Generate and refine new ideas on product development teams by using options practices from the Open Practice Library. Describe common delivery practices that teams use to build product increments.
University of Michigan
Information Extraction from Free Text Data in Health
In this MOOC, you will be introduced to advanced machine learning and natural language processing techniques to parse and extract information from unstructured text documents in healthcare, such as clinical notes, radiology reports, and discharge summaries. Whether you are an aspiring data scientist or an early or mid-career professional in data science or information technology in healthcare, it is critical that you keep up-to-date your skills in information extraction and analysis. To be successful in this course, you should build on the concepts learned through other intermediate-level MOOC courses and specializations in Data Science offered by the University of Michigan, so you will be able to delve deeper into challenges in recognizing medical entities in health-related documents, extracting clinical information, addressing ambiguity and polysemy to tag them with correct concept types, and develop tools and techniques to analyze new genres of health information. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Identify text mining approaches needed to identify and extract different kinds of information from health-related text data Create an end-to-end NLP pipeline to extract medical concepts from clinical free text using one terminology resource Differentiate how training deep learning models differ from training traditional machine learning models Configure a deep neural network model to detect adverse events from drug reviews List the pros and cons of Deep Learning approaches."
Google Cloud
Explore and Evaluate Models using Model Garden
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you explore and evaluate AI models using Model Garden.
University of Minnesota
Introduction to Integrative Nursing
This course is designed for nurses who are drawn to practice in a different way – nurses who value whole-person care and know that the essence of nursing practice is truly caring and healing. You will learn about the principles and practices of Integrative Nursing and how you can be a healing presence to all you serve. Then, you will do an integrative assessment and apply the principles of Integrative Nursing to improve symptom management and overall patient outcomes. Finally, you will explore ways to become a leader in Integrative Nursing and create new patient care models. Continuing Education (CE) Credits This course has been designed to meet Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements for 12 contact hours and may be eligible for CE credit from other professional boards that allow self-documenting of continuing education activities. It is your responsibility to check with your regulatory board to confirm this course meets your local requirements and, if necessary, to provide them with the certificate of completion you get if you pay for and fulfill all the requirements of this course.
LearnQuest
Advanced IoT Systems Integration and Industrial Applications
Welcome to the transformative journey into Advanced IoT Systems Integration and Industrial Applications! In this course, we'll delve into cutting-edge topics that go beyond the basics, covering advanced topics such as edge computing, analytics, security, and fusion of IoT with robotics and automation technologies. This course is tailored for professionals eager to deepen their understanding of IoT systems in industrial contexts. Throughout the course, you'll delve into key areas such as edge computing, data analytics, security, and the integration of IoT with robotics and automation technologies. The emphasis is in practical skills, ensuring that you are well-equipped to apply your knowledge to real-world industrial challenges. By the end of this Advanced IoT Systems Integration and Industrial Applications course, learners will be able to: - Understand the concepts, benefits, and challenges of edge computing in industrial IoT applications. - Apply advanced data analytics techniques for processing and deriving insights from IoT data, enabling data-driven decision-making in industrial applications. - Identify and mitigate security and privacy risks in IoT systems, applying best practices and developing comprehensive security and compliance plans for industrial applications. - Analyze and strategize the integration of IoT systems with robotics and automation technologies, designing holistic solutions for specific industrial use cases. Get ready to elevate your understanding, sharpen your skills, and emerge prepared to drive innovation in industrial settings.
IE Business School
Value Creation for Corporate Strategy
Delve into the strategic world of vertical value chains with this course, where you'll learn the importance of cooperation and value creation. Discover historical and modern approaches to vertical integration, like Ford's, and when to make or buy inputs and services. Understand the role of synergies and strategic decision-making in optimizing your industry's value chain.
Coursera
AI Projects: Plan, Track, Deliver
AI projects involve shifting data, evolving models, and strict governance needs that traditional project management often cannot address. This short course helps you plan, track, and deliver AI initiatives using practical, job-ready tools. You’ll learn to track project health, evaluate deliverables for quality, and apply agile and CRISP-DM methods for adaptive progress. By the end, you’ll be able to identify risks early and lead AI projects with confidence.
Packt
Managing Hybrid Infrastructure and Virtualized Environments
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 explore the complexities of managing hybrid infrastructures and virtualized environments with a focus on using Azure services. You’ll gain hands-on experience deploying and managing servers, configuring various remoting techniques like PowerShell Remoting and Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP), and integrating Windows servers with Azure Arc and Defender for Cloud. You'll also learn about the essentials of virtual machines (VMs), containers, and automation, which will enable you to optimize your infrastructure management and troubleshoot common issues. The course walks you through configuring key technologies such as Windows Admin Center (WAC), PowerShell, Azure VM Extensions, and Azure Automation. Additionally, you'll be trained in high availability, managing VMs and containers, and handling various tasks using Azure's robust ecosystem. With a mix of demos and practical applications, you’ll develop the skills needed to manage a hybrid IT environment effectively. This course is ideal for IT professionals, systems administrators, or anyone interested in managing hybrid infrastructure using Azure. You’ll explore fundamental and advanced concepts that can be applied to a range of IT environments. Basic familiarity with cloud computing or server management is recommended, though not strictly required.
EDUCBA
Applied Financial Decision Making and Ethics
Learners will analyze financial statements, evaluate risk and return trade-offs, apply investment appraisal techniques, and address ethical and governance considerations in managerial decision-making. By the end of the course, participants will be able to assess liquidity and profitability, value financial instruments, manage working capital effectively, make informed investment and pricing decisions, and apply professional ethical standards in complex business environments. This course is designed for finance professionals and advanced learners seeking a comprehensive understanding of financial decision-making and ethics. Through a structured progression from financial statement evaluation to corporate finance, risk assessment, and professional conduct, learners build both analytical depth and practical application skills. The curriculum integrates quantitative tools such as ratio analysis, asset pricing models, cost–volume–profit analysis, and investment appraisal methods with qualitative frameworks for ethical reasoning, fraud risk awareness, and governance practices. What distinguishes this course is its integrated approach to financial strategy and ethical judgment, combining technical rigor with real-world business application. Learners benefit from a logically sequenced curriculum, applied exercises, and graded assessments that emphasize translating financial analysis into sound managerial decisions.
KodeKloud
Jenkins for Beginners
Jenkins is one of the most popular tools used worldwide for continuous integration and continuous delivery. Jenkins is a free and open-source automation server. It enables developers to build, integrate, and test code automatically as soon as it is committed to the source repository. This enables developers to detect errors and bugs at an early stage and deploy more swiftly. It helps in better collaboration between the developers as it takes the latest code and triggers a build as soon as it is added to the shared repository by any developer and notifies if the build was successful or not saving the time and effort by not wasting time looking for bugs. In this course, you will learn with demos at each step for better visualization of the concepts about what CI/CD is, why we should use Jenkins, how to create pipelines, use of different plugins, Jenkins security and much more along with the hands-on practice for these concepts to give you a solid foundation of Jenkins. Some of the concepts covered in this course are listed below: - What is CI/CD - Why Jenkins? - Installing Jenkins - Jenkins CLI - Plugins - Managing users and teams - Managing the system and credentials - Administering Jenkins - Backup Jenkins - Restore Jenkins - Jenkins Pipelines
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Design and innovation of business model
The core of Business Model Design lies in skills and leadership of the entrepreneurial manager. It requires a disciplined approach to seeking opportunities, as well as gathering and aligning resources to achieve important goals. In this course, students will strengthen two important skills: intuition and visual thinking, while applying quantitative methods learned in other courses, such as Finance, Economics and Financial Intelligence. The focus of this course is on four pillars: 1. Observation as a key element to discover business patterns. 2. The organization of complexity, the art of synthesis using visual thinking, mapping and system design. 3. The concept of white space as "potential activities not defined or mentioned in the current business model". 4. Storytelling and establishing contact. Observation is a key aspect of discovering business patterns. Students will learn, through different cases and methodologies - some already seen - how to identify key elements of a business model. This includes the nature of an integrated business company in which we define the Business Model. What would be different if managers thought like designers? Although many business people appreciate the power of design, a formal process for practicing it has been elusive - until now. In this course, the goal is to find a way to organize complexity, the art of synthesis using visual thinking, mapping, and system design, to connect elements as diverse as ideas, resources, transactions, values, and networks. According to Mark Johnson, the blank space refers to "potential activities not defined or mentioned in the company's current business model; that is, the opportunities that exist outside its core and beyond its adjacencies; that require a different business model to be able to take advantage of them." An important component of Business Model Design and Innovation is Storytelling and establishing contact. Using technology to connect with the audience is key. As part of the deliverables to be rated, entrepreneurial leaders should know about social media and technology-driven content, concentrating both on modeling how to use these technologies to connect and communicate with others, and how to achieve passion through networks.
IBM
Build Multimodal Generative AI Applications
Ready to level up your GenAI skills? Step into the exciting world of multimodal AI, where language, images, and speech come together to build smarter, more interactive applications. In this hands-on course, you’ll learn how to build systems that work across multiple modalities, from creating AI-powered storytellers and meeting assistants to developing image captioning tools and video generation apps. You’ll gain experience with real-world tools like IBM’s Granite, OpenAI’s Whisper, Sora and DALL·E, Meta’s Llama, Mistral’s Mixtral, and Gradio. Plus, you'll explore multimodal search, question answering, and retrieval systems that combine text, speech, and visual data. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to design and build full-stack multimodal AI solutions using Python and frameworks like Flask and Gradio. If you’re looking to gain in-demand skills for building the next generation of AI applications, enroll today and power up your AI career!
National Academy of Sports Medicine
Psychosocial Aspects of Obesity
This course talks about the physiological aspects of obesity and provides foundational knowledge on the psychosocial aspects of obesity. This course will discuss three critical domains of the psychosocial components of obesity: mental health, social influences, and eating disorders.
University of Michigan
Python Project: Software Engineering and Image Manipulation
This course will walk you through a hands-on project suitable for a portfolio. You will be introduced to third-party APIs and will be shown how to manipulate images using the Python imaging library (pillow), how to apply optical character recognition to images to recognize text (tesseract and pytesseract). By the end of the course you will have worked with these different libraries available for Python 3 to create a real-world project. The course is best-suited for learners who have taken the first four courses of the Python 3 Programming Specialization. Learners who already have Python programming skills but want to practice with a hands-on, real-world project can also benefit from this course. This is the fifth and final course in the Python 3 Programming Specialization.