The Global Scholarly Directory.
Discover world-class academic programs curated for the modern intellectual. Search through 19877+ degrees and professional certificates.
Scrimba
Build Fast Websites with Astro
Learn how to build a fully functional, content-driven website using Astro, the modern web framework designed for speed and simplicity. This course walks you through setting up your Astro project, creating reusable components, and organizing styles for a clean, maintainable codebase. You’ll explore powerful features like slot components to make your layouts more flexible, and learn how to import and display data from JSON files. You’ll work with Markdown and frontmatter to create and manage blog posts, use file-based routing to structure your site, and build dynamic content sections. Along the way, you’ll see how to design and implement headers, navigation bars, footers, and project sections that are reusable and scalable. By the end, you’ll not only have a polished blog and portfolio site ready to deploy, you’ll also have a solid understanding of Astro’s component architecture, content management tools, and deployment process. Whether you’re new to Astro or looking to sharpen your skills, this course gives you everything you need to build fast, modern websites with confidence.
Packt
Exporting and Integrating Assets into Unreal Engine 5
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'll master the process of exporting and integrating 3D assets from Blender into Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). Learn how to seamlessly export your models, set up scenes, and apply materials in UE5 to create realistic game environments. By the end, you’ll have the skills to efficiently integrate 3D models into UE5 and optimize them for interactive experiences. The course begins by covering the basics of exporting from Blender, including the GLTF format and an introduction to the UE5 interface. You’ll learn how to navigate the UE5 viewport controls and set up your first scene, focusing on lighting, terrain, and water. With hands-on lessons, you'll refine your assets and reimport them into UE5 for further optimization and integration into your game environments. You'll dive deeper into materials in UE5, learning how to create and modify materials, including advanced techniques like landscape displacement and Nanite materials for high-fidelity detail. With lessons on Quixel assets and foliage, you will enhance your environment with realistic props and natural elements, bringing your scene to life. Finally, you'll explore post-processing and color grading to fine-tune the look and feel of your final render. This course is designed for those familiar with 3D modeling and looking to integrate their assets into Unreal Engine 5. A basic understanding of Blender and UE5 is recommended, and the course will provide hands-on experience with all key aspects of asset export, integration, and scene creation.
Google Cloud
Looker Studio Essentials
This course provides an introduction to Looker Studio’s powerful features for data visualization and reporting. Learn to transform raw data into insightful reports by mastering various visualization options, connecting to diverse data sources, and implementing interactive controls such as filters. Explore data blending techniques to combine information from multiple sources and unlock deeper insights. Through hands-on exercises you'll gain the skills to create compelling, dynamic reports that effectively communicate data-driven stories.
Coursera
Analytics: Uncover Web Traffic Secrets
Did you know that 73% of marketers struggle to extract meaningful insights from their web analytics data, often missing critical opportunities hidden in plain sight? This Short Course was created to help digital marketing professionals accomplish foundational web analytics mastery through hands-on technical documentation analysis and platform navigation. By completing this course, you'll be able to confidently navigate analytics platforms, accurately interpret key performance metrics, and systematically document findings that drive data-informed marketing decisions you can apply immediately in your daily workflow. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Recognize and document key analytics metrics from official technical resources Apply systematic platform navigation to retrieve standard web traffic performance data This course is unique because it bridges the critical gap between technical analytics knowledge and practical platform skills, using real-world scenarios that mirror actual marketing team workflows and deliverables. To be successful in this course, you should have basic familiarity with digital marketing concepts and comfort using web-based software platforms.
Google Cloud
App Dev: Deploying the Application into Kubernetes Engine - Python
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you will deploy the quiz application into Kubernetes Engine, leveraging Google Cloud Platform resources including Container Builder and Container Registry, and Kubernetes resources including Deployments, Pods, and Services.
L&T EduTech
Tunnel Construction Practices
The course on "Tunnel Construction Practices" provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of tunnel engineering. Beginning with an in-depth understanding of tunnel components and the intricacies of the design process, the course covers failure types and emphasizes the critical importance of safety. It delves into various excavation methods, considering geological factors, and explores the types of supports crucial for tunnel stability. The modules further cover design methodologies, instrumentation, monitoring strategies, and the application of tunnel boring machines. Through a holistic approach, learners gain practical insights into the planning, design, and construction of tunnels, ensuring a well-rounded skill set for successful and safe tunnel construction practices. This course is majorly for consumption in the Indian subcontinent and the target audience are undergraduate and post graduate students, faculties and freshers who has entered the industry as young professionals. Target Learners This course is majorly for the leaners in the Indian Subcontinent Undergraduate students in Civil Engineering post graduate students in geotechnical Engineering faculties and freshers who has entered the industry as young professionals
Coursera
Crea Videos para Redes Sociales con Canva
Al final de este proyecto, usted aprenderá a crear un video para redes sociales usando la versión gratis de Canva. Consumidores hoy en día están constantemente saturados con información e imágenes en las redes sociales. Una parte esencial del marketing en redes sociales es aprender maneras creativas de atraer la atención a productos y servicios, muchas veces con un presupuesto mínimo. La plataforma Canva ofrece todas las herramientas necesarias para crear un producto tanto organizado como visualmente atractivo y fácilmente de compartir y trabajar en equipo. Usted aprenderá en este proyecto guiado a organizar sus ideas. Al final de este proyecto usted podrá implementar correcciones creativas de videos con herramientas de diseño gráfico para comercializar su negocio. Nota: Este curso es de mayor utilidad para estudiantes que residen en la región de América del Norte. Actualmente, estamos trabajando para proporcionar la misma experiencia en otras regiones.
EDUCBA
Develop Dynamic PHP Web Applications from Scratch
Learners will gain the ability to design, develop, and evaluate a complete dynamic web application using PHP. By the end of this course, learners will be able to build structured web pages, implement reusable layouts, create essential informational pages, integrate contact forms, and enable email communication within a PHP-based website. This course provides a hands-on, project-driven approach to PHP web development, guiding learners step by step from project setup to final output. Rather than focusing solely on theory, the course emphasizes practical implementation, allowing learners to understand how real-world web applications are structured and developed. Each module builds progressively, reinforcing concepts such as layout reuse, content organization, and dynamic functionality. What makes this course unique is its end-to-end project focus, enabling learners to see how individual components come together into a fully functional web application. Upon completion, learners will have the confidence and practical skills needed to create dynamic PHP websites suitable for real-world use, personal projects, or further professional development.
University of Pennsylvania
U.S. Health Law Fundamentals
This course explores how statutes, regulations, common law, and market forces help or hinder three major goals of policy makers: increasing access, reducing cost, and improving quality. We will examine the Supreme Court’s rulings on the ACA and other legal aspects of modern health care reform. Learners who successfully complete this course will be able to describe the laws, regulations, common law and market forces that shape our health care system and identify areas where ideas and innovation are needed; explain the malpractice system and how it influences medical practice; and analyze legal aspects of the ACA.
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Biotech — From Science to Business
Scientific discoveries in biotechnology can have a profound impact on society, but only if they reach the market. This course is designed to help you bridge the gap between the lab and the real world by teaching you how to evaluate the commercial potential of biotech innovations and develop a strategy for success. You’ll learn how to assess the value of scientific discoveries, define a suitable business model, and identify the first practical steps toward building a biotech startup. Along the way, you’ll gain insight into the unique challenges of biotech entrepreneurship and how to navigate them with confidence. The course is part of the Realizing Biotech Innovations – A Business Guide for Scientists professional certificate program from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), one of Europe’s leading universities in research and innovation. It combines academic perspectives with real-world expertise from entrepreneurs and industry professionals who share their experiences and advice. Whether you're a researcher, student, or aspiring entrepreneur, this course will help you take your biotech idea one step closer to reality.
MathWorks
Data Processing and Feature Engineering with MATLAB
In this course, you will build on the skills learned in Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB to lay the foundation required for predictive modeling. This intermediate-level course is useful to anyone who needs to combine data from multiple sources or times and has an interest in modeling. These skills are valuable for those who have domain knowledge and some exposure to computational tools, but no programming background. To be successful in this course, you should have some background in basic statistics (histograms, averages, standard deviation, curve fitting, interpolation) and have completed Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB. Throughout the course, you will merge data from different data sets and handle common scenarios, such as missing data. In the last module of the course, you will explore special techniques for handling textual, audio, and image data, which are common in data science and more advanced modeling. By the end of this course, you will learn how to visualize your data, clean it up and arrange it for analysis, and identify the qualities necessary to answer your questions. You will be able to visualize the distribution of your data and use visual inspection to address artifacts that affect accurate modeling.
Google Cloud
Developing Applications with Cloud Run Functions on Google Cloud
In this course, you learn about Cloud Run functions, Google's serverless, fully-managed functions as a service (FaaS) product that lets you implement single-purpose function code that reponds to HTTP requests and events from your cloud infrastructure.
Coursera
Validating Your Startup Idea with MVP Experiment Canvas
By the end of this guided project, you will be able to use the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Experience Canvas to test your startup business model assumptions. An MVP is a version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. The MPV Experiment Canvas is a framework that help you determine the desirability, viability, and feasibility of your business idea. The model has 12 building blocks that help you to systematically analyze your idea from defining the targeted customers, to experimenting with the model, and to making strategic decisions with the results of the analysis conducted. For us to practically demonstrate how to use the Canvas to conduct analysis and validate a business idea, we will analyze a Fintech startup company as a case study. Example of the case study would empower you to apply the model to startup, or any venture of your choice. The project is for entrepreneurs who want to avoid the costly mistake of launching a product that nobody needs. Also, for intrapreneurs and business leader that want to experiment and validate a business idea before making significant investment. At the end of the project, you will be able to use the canvas to determine your product-market fit
Politecnico di Milano
Designing Learning Innovation: an introduction
Where to start to innovate your teaching? But before that, what does it mean to innovate in the classroom? Designing Learning Innovation aims to put the designing culture at the service of learning innovation, supporting those who do not have a specific pedagogical background and those who wish to learn the basic tools of a good teaching design then to continue exploring the frontiers of innovation. A set of logical and methodological tools to innovate teaching, finding the most suitable approaches with one’s own vision of the teaching-learning experience. INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (ILOs) If you actively participate in this course, at the end you will be able to: - Use basic theoretical-methodological tools (such as Constructive Alignment and the Learning Innovation Network) to enhance teaching coherence between learning objectives, assessment methods and learning experiences; - apply pedagogical frameworks of the active learning methodology to the design either an individual teaching module or an entire teaching path; - evaluate advantages and disadvantages, in the field of your own teachings, of traditional evaluation approaches compared to the new assessment strategies, in particular those oriented to the formative evaluation. THE MOOC-BOOK: MATERIALS AND ACTIVITIES The MOOC is realized in a strongly integrated way with the book “Designing Learning Innovation” published by Pearson (the english version is the translation of the italian one already published and accessible here https://www.bookrepublic.it/ebook/9788891926067-designing-learning-innovation-pearson/) In the course you will find video lessons and infographic articulated as in the book. You will also encounter different types of activities which will contribute to make your experience richer and more complete.
University of Pennsylvania
Arts and Culture Strategy
Arts and culture leaders have a tough but rewarding task: creating and leading sustainable organizations that deliver real social value. There is a lot of competition out there. Being an effective leader means constantly adapting, cleverly using the best tools to reach as many people as possible. This course is designed to help leaders at any level do just that.
Coursera
HTML for Beginners: Tables and Forms
In this 70 minutes long project-based course, you will learn how to create a table and a form in HTML, and style them using CSS. To achieve this, we will work through creating an structuring a table using the , , , , , and elements. We will proceed then to create a form using the , and elements, adding different inpu types using the ""type"" attribute of the element. We will also use elements of CSS to style and structure the layout, colors and text properties of the table and form, including the form submission button. This project is unique because it will practically and rapidly let you gain the skills to create table views for your website and interact with your users. You can use the skills acquired in this project to create events and products listings, or add ""contact us"" or ""booking"" forms to your website. In order to be successful in this project, you will need just passion and a very introductory knowledge to HTML and CSS. specifically knowing just how to write an HTML element, what are tags and attributes, classes and IDs.