The Global Scholarly Directory.
Discover world-class academic programs curated for the modern intellectual. Search through 19877+ degrees and professional certificates.
Coursera
Scaling E-Commerce with Kubernetes: Deploy Web Apps
In this project, I’ll walk you through how to use Docker and Kubernetes to deploy and scale a high-performance e-commerce application. The goal is to design a resilient and scalable platform capable of handling dynamic traffic demands efficiently. We’ll cover: • Containerising applications using Docker for portability and efficiency. • Setting up Kubernetes deployments and services to ensure high availability. • Configuring horizontal pod autoscaling to manage traffic spikes. • Optimizing resource allocation with requests, limits, and affinity rules. • Testing and implementing failure recovery mechanisms to maintain uptime. By the end of this project, you’ll know how to deploy and manage production-ready e-commerce platforms with Kubernetes. This project is ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and anyone looking to master container orchestration for scalable infrastructure. Some experience with web development, networking, YAML files, and command-line operations is recommended to ensure a smoother learning experience.
University of Colorado System
Clinical Natural Language Processing
This course teaches you the fundamentals of clinical natural language processing (NLP). In this course you will learn the basic linguistic principals underlying NLP, as well as how to write regular expressions and handle text data in R. You will also learn practical techniques for text processing to be able to extract information from clinical notes. Finally, you will have a chance to put your skills to the test with a real-world practical application where you develop text processing algorithms to identify diabetic complications from clinical notes. You will complete this work using a free, online computational environment for data science hosted by our Industry Partner Google Cloud.
Coursera
Getting Started with ProfitBooks
This project will give you the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the cloud-based platform, ProfitBooks. We will start this project by introducing you to the platform through creating an online account and taking a virtual tour of the software. This step will include updating your company profile in the settings. We will continue our introduction by building out a CRM through the customer profile feature. Once the customer profiles are created, you will be introduced to some beginner features on the platform. This project will focus on the Item feature for products and services & invoice feature for billing. Upon completion of this project, you will understand how to add customers to your CRM, inventory items and services, and invoice customers. You will have the confidence to continue towards intermediate use of ProfitBooks in a continuation series. ProfitBooks is an online accounting and payroll management software for small businesses. It allows users to organize offices finances and track all activities related to their business. This free online tool allows you to manage your money without accounting knowledge, grow sales with powerful invoicing tools, track inventory with ease, and run your business with total confidence. ProfitBooks hosts your information on the secure and widely-trusted Amazon Web Services (AWS) while implementing additional security features like secure-access, built-in firewalls, encrypted data storage and periodic back-ups. You can read more about their security policy here: https://www.profitbooks.net/cloud-data-security/.
Duke University
Sports and Society
Sports play a giant role in contemporary society worldwide. But few of us pause to think about the larger questions of money, politics, race, sex, culture, and commercialization that surround sports everywhere. This course draws on the tools of anthropology, sociology, history, and other disciplines to give you new perspectives on the games we watch and play. It's the new and improved version of Professor Orin Starn's original "Sports and Society" for Coursera, which drew more than 40,000 students. We will focus on both popular sports like soccer (or “football,” as anyone outside America calls it), basketball, and baseball, and also lesser-known ones like mountain-climbing and fishing. You will never watch or think about sports in the same way again.
Alex Genadinik
Introduction To Cryptocurrency For People Who Never Used It
Curious about cryptocurrency but don't know where to begin? This beginner-friendly course is your step-by-step guide to understanding the world of digital money, explained in clear, simple terms, no tech background required. Whether you've heard of Bitcoin in the news or are wondering how blockchain works, this course will walk you through the essentials of crypto, what it is, why it matters, and how it’s changing the future of finance. What You’ll Learn: What cryptocurrency is and how it works The basics of blockchain technology How Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other major coins differ How to buy, store, and use cryptocurrency safely Common crypto terms and jargon explained Key risks, scams, and how to avoid them Real-world use cases: investing, payments, NFTs, and more Who This Course Is For: Total beginners with no prior experience Anyone interested in learning how cryptocurrency works People who want to start using or investing in crypto confidently This course is designed to make crypto accessible, practical, and understandable for everyone whether you're exploring it out of curiosity, planning to invest, or simply want to keep up with this financial revolution. Join now and start your journey into the world of cryptocurrency, no complicated tech or trading knowledge needed.
ESCP Business School
Intercultural Management
This MOOC explores different aspects of intercultural management, including teams, leadership, Human Resource Management, marketing and negotiations. When you complete this MOOC, you will have a richer understanding of the concept of culture, and how culture influences the way that individuals behave. You will also get a deeper knowledge about how culture shapes management practices in international organizations. We will introduce you to a number of experts in the field of intercultural management who will discuss the challenges and the benefits of dealing with employees on a global level. Moreover, we will share with you insights from our own research to illustrate recent developments in the field of intercultural management. During the MOOC we will provide you with a variety of concepts and tools that empower you to successfully interact with people from other cultures to achieve your desired personal and business-related goals. Please have a look at the teaser available at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVze_O6vjKI
Johns Hopkins University
The Critical Role of IT Support Staff in Healthcare
This is a very exciting time to be exploring a career in Health IT Support! In this introductory course, you’ll learn about various roles in IT support that are common in healthcare. IT support staff play critical roles in many different healthcare venues. In addition to helping clinics, hospitals, and emergency rooms, you may end up providing support in a skilled nursing facility, ambulatory surgical center, virtual care setting, or even a patient’s home! On any given day, you may interact with nurses, physicians, pharmacists, physical therapists, social workers, other allied health professionals, patients or caregivers. Each of these individuals rely on IT support specialists to help them maintain a high reliability healthcare organization. As you learn about what makes Health IT unique, we hope you find inspiration in the stories shared by some of our very own IT support staff at Johns Hopkins. They’ll talk to you about the most common problems they help resolve as well as the complexity and range of issues that arise. Whether you dream of being an end-user computer support specialist, working at a healthcare help desk, or rising to an analyst role, we’re thrilled that you are embarking upon this journey. Welcome again!
IBM
Project: Generative AI Applications with RAG and LangChain
Get ready to put your generative AI engineering skills into practice! In this hands-on guided project, you’ll apply the knowledge and techniques gained throughout the previous courses in the program to build your own real-world generative AI application. You’ll begin by filling in key knowledge gaps, such as using LangChain’s document loaders to ingest documents from various sources. You’ll then explore and apply text-splitting strategies to improve model responsiveness and use IBM watsonx to embed documents. These embeddings will be stored in a vector database, which you’ll connect to LangChain to develop an effective document retriever. As your project progresses, you’ll implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to enhance retrieval accuracy, construct a question-answering bot, and build a simple Gradio interface for interactive model responses. By the end of the course, you’ll have a complete, portfolio-ready AI application that showcases your skills and serves as compelling evidence of your ability to engineer real-world generative AI solutions. If you're ready to elevate your career with hands-on experience, enroll today and take the next step toward becoming a confident AI engineer.
Institut Mines-Télécom
Traitement d'images : recalage et reconnaissance de formes
p. ex. Cela est destiné principalement aux étudiants de première et deuxième année de licence, intéressés par l'ingénierie et les sciences, ainsi qu'aux lycéens et aux professionnels intéressés par la programmation. Ce cours est destiné aux étudiants de niveau Master 1 et 2, intéressés par le traitement et l'analyse d'images et de vidéos. Le sujet spécifique adresse des problématiques de reconnaissance des formes dans les images, et plus généralement de motifs, et ouvre la porte aux techniques de classification et reconnaissance d'objets, de construction de panorama et de stabilisation de vidéos.
University of Pennsylvania
Wharton Business Foundations Capstone
Wharton's Applied Knowledge Capstone Project enables you to apply your analytic skills to real business challenges – including your own. You’ll use your newly earned business skills to thoughtfully evaluate a real situation or opportunity from Wharton-governed companies like Shazam and SnapDeal.
Packt
Learning Google Apps Script - Automate Google Apps
This course provides a hands-on introduction to Google Apps Script, a powerful JavaScript-based platform that enables you to automate and customize Google applications. You'll learn essential skills like creating custom menus, automating email sending, and building interactive web pages and forms, all while working on real-world projects. This resource provides actionable knowledge to help you leverage Google Apps Script for both personal and professional automation. By following this course, you’ll be able to enhance Google apps like Sheets, Docs, and Forms by integrating scripts that automate tasks, making processes more efficient and streamlined. Through examples, you will understand how to automate repetitive actions and build practical applications like email parsers and Google Calendar event creators. The course stands out by combining essential theory with practical applications, using real-world projects to bring the concepts to life. Whether you want to improve workflow automation or explore new ways to customize your Google apps, this course provides the tools you need to succeed. Ideal for those with basic JavaScript knowledge, this course will benefit anyone wanting to automate tasks in Google applications, especially those new to Google Apps Script.
ISC2
Moving to the Cloud
Driven by economic advantage, companies worldwide are making the transition from enterprise IT to cloud computing. But are they doing it strategically? Are they keeping security at the fore of their priorities? In Moving to the Cloud, we bring you a four-phased approach to transforming your organization — strategically and securely — using business alignment as your guidepost. In this course, you will learn how to: - Devise a strategic process for moving to the cloud - Identify security concerns and risk factors - Define your organization’s specific needs and responsibilities - Evaluate service level agreements and cloud providers Who should take this course? Early to mid-career security professionals who want to gain and demonstrate an understanding of essential cloud concepts and principles.
Packt
Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide
Bring your data to life through data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more. this course offers a comprehensive guide to mastering Power BI, focussing on dataflow, data modeling, and visualization techniques. Learn to connect, clean, and transform data from various sources, and create impactful dashboards for informed decision-making. Gain skills in administering Power BI environments, ensuring seamless deployment and robust security. In this course you will: - Connect to diverse data sources and transform data using Power BI tools. - Design optimized data models and create DAX calculations. - Develop effective reports and dashboards with custom visuals. Mastering Power BI is a crucial step toward becoming a data-driven professional. This course equips you with the skills to connect, clean, and model data from multiple sources, and turn it into clear, actionable insights, and to create interactive dashboards that can drive smarter business decisions. Whether you're pursuing a career as a data analyst or looking to enhance your reporting and visualization skills, this course gives you the tools to stand out. The course includes reading material written by Power BI experts, short videos, multiple-choice quizzes to test your knowledge, and hands-on labs to help you learn by doing.
Coursera
Program Management: Stakeholders Identification in ClickUp
By the end of this guided project, you will be fluent in creating Program stakeholder artefacts for the Identification/Planning Phase for diverse programs. You will utilise a logical diagramming plan in an agile environment to develop the solution. This will enable you to identify and classify the required components for stakeholder identification and planning. Furthermore, it will help develop a structural model for learning about the field of Program Management. If you are interested in building up the knowledge leading to this guided project, the following is the link to: [ Developing Programme Management Blueprint with ClickUp] https://www.coursera.org/projects/program-blueprint [Advanced Programme Planning Phases Framework in ClickUp] https://www.coursera.org/projects/program-advanced-planning This Guided Project is essential for individuals wanting to learn about the field, or looking to transition into working in Program Management. This guided project is designed to engage and harness your visionary and exploratory abilities. You will use proven models in an agile environment with ClickUp to engage in a hands-on learning experience.
University of California, Santa Cruz
Feminism and Social Justice
"Feminism and Social Justice" is an adaptation of Distinguished Professor Bettina Aptheker's long-running course at UC Santa Cruz. In the course, Professor Aptheker presents a broad definition of feminism that serves to frame three significant events in the history of feminism and social justice: the Empire Zinc strike of 1951, the 1971-1972 trial of Angela Davis, and the #metoo Movement.
Meta
Introducción al desarrollo de aplicaciones móviles para iOS
Aprenda sobre el sistema operativo y la plataforma de desarrollo para obtener información acerca del desarrollo iOS. Descubra cómo configurar y preparar un entorno local. Familiarícese con la página de configuración de Swift y escriba código en Swift. Al final de este curso, podrá: -Demostrar un conocimiento práctico de los principios generales de las aplicaciones móviles y el ecosistema iOS -Configurar y explorar el entorno de Xcode -Demostrar que entiende cómo se usa Xcode en el proceso de desarrollo de aplicaciones de Swift -Escribir código Swift y crear una interfaz de usuario con el uso de las páginas de configuración de Swift -Navegar por la interfaz de usuario de Swift -Manipular datos en Swift Obtendrá experiencia con las siguientes herramientas y software: -Aplicación y software Swift -Software y entorno de desarrollo iOS -SO móvil -XCode -Objective-C -Marcos de interfaz de usuario -Testflight -Interfaz de usuario de un storyboard -MVC -API