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Google Cloud
Google Cloud Compute and Scalability for Azure Professionals
This is the second course of a four-course series for cloud architects and engineers with existing Azure knowledge. It aims to compare Google Cloud and Azure solutions and guide professionals on their use. This course focuses on compute resources and load balancing in Google Cloud. The learner will apply the knowledge of using virtual machines and load balancers in Azure to explore the similarities and differences with configuring and managing compute resources and load balancers in Google Cloud. Learners will get hands-on practice building and managing Google Cloud resources.
University of Geneva
Negociations climatiques
Depuis 2015, les négociations climatiques ont pris de l'ampleur face aux appels à intensifier l'action climatique et à la nécessité de mettre en application les principes de l'Accord de Paris. Souvent décriées dans leur format, les Conférences des parties (COP) apparaissent comme les moments clés des négociations climatiques internationales qui tentent de façonner, d'année en année, les normes, les modalités et l'ampleur de l'action climatique à de multiples niveaux. Le MOOC Négociations climatiques vous permettra d'appréhender les fondements de l'Accord de Paris, en relation avec la science, les modalités concrètes de négociations, le bilan sur les conditions et difficultés de sa mise en application tant sur le plan de l'atténuation que de l'adaptation et les enjeux liés à la mise en œuvre de l'Accord de Paris, du global au local.
Google Cloud
Trabalhar com Notebooks na Vertex AI
Este curso é uma introdução aos Notebooks da Vertex AI, que são ambientes baseados em notebooks do Jupyter. Eles fornecem uma plataforma unificada para todo o fluxo de trabalho de machine learning, desde a preparação de dados até a implantação e monitoramento de modelos. Tópicos do curso: (1) Diferentes tipos de Notebooks da Vertex AI e os recursos deles e (2) Como criar e gerenciar Notebooks da Vertex AI.
Coursera
Improve Communication with Genial.ly
Have you been asked to make a presentation for your organization? Do you know the best way to reach your colleagues? We learn to use Genial.ly to build a training presentation on effective communication. With working from home on the rise organizations need to find easy ways to train multiple people virtually, learning how to use Genial.ly to develop a presentation will help you to reach those who need to improve their skills. Genial.ly offers many options for developing a presentation as well as choices for how to share it. Genial.ly stores the presentation and provides you with a URL to share. You can easily add animations and navigation to your presentation and wow everyone! By the end of your time in this project you will have a completed presentation to share in Genial.ly. 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.
Logical Operations
Microsoft Excel for Office 365 (Desktop or Online): Part 2
Whether you need to crunch numbers for sales, inventory, information technology, human resources, or other organizational purposes and departments, the ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time can create a powerful competitive advantage. After all, the world runs on data more than ever before and that's a trend not likely to change, or even slow down, any time soon. But with so much data available and being created on a nearly constant basis, the ability to make sense of that data becomes more critical and challenging with every passing day. You already know how to get Microsoft® Excel® to perform simple calculations and how to modify your workbooks and worksheets to make them easier to read, interpret, and present to others. But, Excel is capable of doing so much more. To gain a truly competitive edge, you need to be able to extract actionable organizational intelligence from your raw data. In other words, when you have questions about your data, you need to know how to get Excel to provide the answers for you. And that's exactly what this course aims to help you do. This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level. Note: Most Office users perform the majority of their daily tasks using the desktop version of the Office software, so that is the focus of this training. The course material will also enable you to access and effectively utilize many web-based resources provided with your Microsoft 365 subscription. This includes brief coverage of key skills for using Excel for the Web and OneDrive. Helpful notes throughout the material alert you to cases where the online version of the application may function differently from the primary, desktop version. This course may be a useful component in your preparation for the Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365 Apps): Exam MO-210 and Microsoft Excel Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps): Exam MO-211 certification exams. This course is designed for students who already have foundational knowledge and skills in Excel and who wish to begin taking advantage of some of the higher-level functionality in Excel to analyze and present data. In this course, you will: work with functions, work with lists, analyze data, visualize data with charts, and use PivotTables and PivotCharts. This course requires that you have Microsoft Excel 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.
LearnKartS
Information Security Governance
Still stuck in operational security while leadership drives strategy? Tools don’t unlock promotions. Governance does. Today’s organizations reward professionals who align Information Security with business goals, justify investments, manage enterprise risk, and deliver measurable value. That’s the capability this course builds. This Information Security Governance course is built for professionals targeting CISM-level and executive-track security roles. In this course, you will: • Analyze real breaches like Equifax from a governance lens • Establish accountability through charter and RACI • Apply policies, ethics, and regulatory compliance confidently • Build and defend a business-aligned InfoSec strategy • Align security initiatives with enterprise objectives and risk Unlike theory-heavy programs, this course delivers a business-first governance approach backed by real breach analysis and proven strategy frameworks. By the end, you won’t just understand governance — you’ll confidently design, justify, and lead it within your organization. Enroll now and step into strategic security leadership.
University of Pennsylvania
The Oral Cavity: Portal to Health and Disease
This course will focus on the interprofessional realtionship of dentistry and medicine. For each session, the medical specialist will present a broad overview of specific disease entity which will be followed by a dental educator discussing the relevant oral manifestations and implications. The final module of each session will be devoted to the interaction between the dental and other health care professionals.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mitigating the Human Impact on Wetlands
This course will have a special focus on the impacts caused by humans on wetlands and the efforts made to conserve and restore these systems. The learners will gain a comprehensive understanding of the laws and regulations applicable to wetland conservation. They will also learn to evaluate the techniques used in restoration management and planning. Through case studies and interviews with managers, the learners will examine the essential elements for success and the limitations faced in practical restoration efforts. This course is part of the College of ACES suite of online programs, including the graduate-level certificate, "Wetland Science and Conservation" that can be stacked toward an online master's degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. To learn more about online programs from the College of ACES and explore ways to apply your Coursera work toward a degree program at the University of Illinois, visit ACES Online at acesonline.illinois.edu.
University of Colorado System
Moving, Shooting, and Debugging in GameMaker
This course is the second course in the specialization about learning how to develop video games using GameMaker on Windows or Mac. Why use GameMaker instead of using C# and Unity or C++ and Unreal*? Learning to develop games with GameMaker is much easier than learning to program in C# or C++ AND learning Unity or Unreal. If you just want to continue learning how to develop games in a more "gentle" way, this is a great starting point. This course assumes you have the prerequisite knowledge from the previous course in the specialization. You should make sure you have that knowledge, either by taking that previous course or from personal experience, before tackling this course. Throughout this course you'll continue building your foundational GameMaker knowledge by exploring more GameMaker and game development topics. Module 1: Learn how to implement player and movement and learn about collision masks Module 2: Learn how to shoot projectiles and control firing rate Module 3: Learn how to debug both Visual games and Code games Module 4: Learn how to add health to your games * I do have Coursera Specializations called C# Programming for Unity Game Development and C++ Programming for Unreal Game Development for those more advanced topics.
University of Minnesota
Optimization for Decision Making
In this data-driven world, companies are often interested in knowing what is the "best" course of action, given the data. For example, manufacturers need to decide how many units of a product to produce given the estimated demand and raw material availability? Should they make all the products in-house or buy some from a third-party to meet the demand? Prescriptive Analytics is the branch of analytics that can provide answers to these questions. It is used for prescribing data-based decisions. The most important method in the prescriptive analytics toolbox is optimization. This course will introduce students to the basic principles of linear optimization for decision-making. Using practical examples, this course teaches how to convert a problem scenario into a mathematical model that can be solved to get the best business outcome. We will learn to identify decision variables, objective function, and constraints of a problem, and use them to formulate and solve an optimization problem using Excel solver and spreadsheet.
Vanderbilt University
Mastering Programming with MATLAB
The course builds on the foundation laid by the first course of the Specialization called “Introduction to Programming with MATLAB.” It covers more advanced programming concepts such as recursion, vectorization, function handles, algorithm efficiency and others. At the same time, it presents many features that make MATLAB a powerful programming environment for engineering and scientific computing, such as its support for object oriented programming, the new user interface design environment and Live Scripts. By the end of this course, you will be familiar with more advanced computer programming concepts, able to write more efficient code, and able to create object oriented MATLAB applications with graphical user interfaces.
Yale University
Anatomy of the Upper and Lower Extremities
This course has two main parts, one for the lower extremity and the other for the upper extremity. We will show how the various systems that supply and organize the limb control its function. There are a set of introductory lectures which will allow more experienced students to refresh their knowledge of the limbs and a guide to those with less experience. These lectures will be followed by detailed dissections of the extremities emphasizing locomotion for the lower extremities and hand positioning and function for the upper extremities. This course is part 2/4 in the Yale Human Anatomy Specialization.
University of California, Davis
SQL Problem Solving
SQL for Problem Solving is designed for learners who already understand the basics of SQL and are ready to apply their skills to real-world data problems. In this hands-on course, you’ll move beyond textbook queries to tackle the challenges data analysts face every day. From diagnosing data quality issues to building rolling metrics and interpreting event data, this course gives you the toolkit to write powerful, efficient SQL queries across different dialects and complex datasets. You’ll learn: - Problem-solving strategies used by data professionals - Techniques for debugging, improving data quality, and building complex queries - How to work with modern data environments, from event logs to denormalized schemas - How to communicate business-relevant insights through SQL-based analysis Whether you're preparing for a data job interview, building dashboards for stakeholders, or leveling up your data chops, this course empowers you with the skills to make SQL your go-to tool for data analysis and problem-solving.
Skillshare
Blender for Filmmakers: Animated Sci-Fi Hologram Effect
Transport your viewers to a sci-fi world by adding a hologram effect to any 3D object in Blender. When instructor Alden Peters first started exploring the world of 3D animation and VFX, he saw it as a way to combine his love for 3D and sci-fi films filled with aliens and robots. Since then, Alden has gone on to work full-time as an independent filmmaker, motion graphics, and VFX artist and created award-winning projects like Friends of Sophia, Femme, and Coming Out. Now, Alden wants to show other filmmakers how to use 3D animation to boost the production value of any feature film, short, or show. In this class, Alden reveals how to create 3D holograms and motion track them to any object. You’ll follow along as Alden animates and renders out a few 3D objects in Blender and then motion tracks them to a book and finally composite everything together in Adobe After Effects. With Alden by your side, you’ll: * Add tracking markers for 3D object tracking * Create your holographic 3D models in Blender * Replace and mask out undesirable aspects of your footage in After Effects * Composite your final product in After Effects Whether you’re a sci-fi lover and can’t wait to use a hologram effect in your work or you just want to learn the power of 3D object tracking, you’ll leave this class with a new set of 3D animation tools you can carry forward within any of your other projects. You can also take what you’ve learned today to create your own one-minute film by watching all five of Alden’s 3D animation classes. Plus, you can find more details about add-ons, additional software, and exclusive discounts in the class resources. General knowledge about Blender and Adobe After Effects and how to navigate both software, is required to take this class. You’ll also need a computer, Blender, Adobe After Effects, fSpy, a camera, and a tripod. Alden uses After Effects 2023/2024. If you’re using a prior version, the Alpha Matte and Luma Matte functionality changes slightly. Instructor bio: Alden Peters is an award-winning independent filmmaker whose work has been celebrated at film festivals worldwide. His 2024 queer sci-fi film Friends of Sophia, starring Nana Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), premiered at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA Film Festival. An expansion of his 2021 proof-of-concept short, it follows a string of acclaimed projects including FEMME, a short comedy about navigating dating apps as an effeminate gay man, and the feature-length documentary COMING OUT, which won multiple international awards and is streaming on Amazon Prime. Alden’s films have earned directing, acting, and production design awards, and his collaborators include Emmy and Golden Globe winner Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once). A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Alden currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where he continues to create bold, original storytelling.
University of Copenhagen
Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity
It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical problems that emerge with the breakdown of traditional values, customs and ways of life. The result is the absence of meaning, the lapse of religious faith, and feeling of alienation that is so widespread in modernity. The Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) gave one of the most penetrating analyses of this complex phenomenon of modernity. But somewhat surprisingly he seeks insight into it not in any modern thinker but rather in an ancient one, the Greek philosopher Socrates. In this course created by former associate professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Jon Stewart, we will explore how Kierkegaard deals with the problems associated with relativism, the lack of meaning and the undermining of religious faith that are typical of modern life. His penetrating analyses are still highly relevant today and have been seen as insightful for the leading figures of Existentialism, Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism.
Johns Hopkins University
Cybersecurity Foundations: Threats Networks, and IoT Protection
The course "Cybersecurity Fundamentals" provides a robust foundation in cybersecurity essentials, preparing you to recognize and manage threats in today's digital landscape. Across four comprehensive modules, you'll gain hands-on experience with malware identification, network traffic analysis, internet addressing, and IoT security protocols. In Module 1, explore the relationship between faults, vulnerabilities, and exploits, and learn essential malware identification techniques. Module 2 introduces NetFlow analysis with tools like SiLK and Wireshark, equipping you to collect and interpret network data. Module 3 deepens your understanding of IPv4 and IPv6, BGP routing, and host lookup tools, while Module 4 addresses IoT cybersecurity, where you’ll build a secure IoT framework using Docker and Node-Red. This course stands out by combining practical exercises with foundational knowledge, ensuring you’re ready to apply what you learn to real-world situations. Whether you’re a beginner or expanding your cybersecurity expertise, completing this course will enhance your ability to protect networks, manage internet space, and secure IoT devices—skills in high demand across the IT sector.