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Coursera
Growing Great Writers with Writable
By the end of this project, you will be an expert at using Writable to run a more effective writing program. With its library of assessments, writing prompts, and countless opportunities for practice and feedback, Writable is sure to help your students flourish as proficient writers. Throughout the project, we will work together to ensure that you can confidently use Writable with your students right away. *You will need a free Google or Microsoft account for this project.
Pearson
Data Science Fundamentals Part 2: Unit 2
Thsi course explores foundational and advanced techniques for making reliable inferences from data, starting with a the history and evolution of statistical analysis. Through hands-on lessons, you’ll learn how to leverage computational and sampling-based methods to draw meaningful conclusions, and gain practical experience with hypothesis testing—a cornerstone skill for optimizing digital experiences, such as through A/B testing. The course emphasizes the importance of understanding and quantifying uncertainty, equipping you with the tools to interpret confidence intervals and make well-informed decisions. You’ll also tackle the critical distinction between correlation and causation, ensuring your analyses are robust and actionable. Whether you’re looking to enhance your analytical toolkit or drive impactful business outcomes, this course teaches essential skills for today’s data-centric world.
EDUCBA
JSP: Build Dynamic Web Apps with Case Study
By the end of this course, learners will be able to design, implement, and evaluate dynamic web applications using JavaServer Pages (JSP). They will explain JSP fundamentals, apply directives, scriptlets, and Expression Language, construct MVC-based applications, and develop a complete Employee Management System case study. This course begins with the foundations of JSP, guiding learners through the building blocks of directives, attributes, and error handling. It then advances into real-world applications, where learners practice building login and registration systems, integrating databases, and applying MVC design patterns for scalable solutions. Finally, the course culminates in a practical case study, where learners create a fully functional Employee Management System with advanced features such as filtering, point allocation, and downloadable reports. What makes this course unique is its hands-on project-based approach that ensures learners don’t just understand JSP concepts but also know how to apply them in business-driven scenarios. With structured lessons, quizzes, and a capstone project, learners will gain both the technical expertise and practical experience to confidently build JSP-based web applications.
Packt
Essential Leadership Skills for Career Growth
This course is based on Bill Dellecker's bestselling book, Leadership Worthy. This course is designed to help aspiring and current leaders build the skills and mindset needed to guide teams effectively. Drawing from over forty years of experience, business expert Bill Dellecker shares essential insights from his leadership journey to prove that great leadership isn’t innate — it can be learned and applied by anyone. Completing this course will strengthen your ability to lead with confidence, foster trust, and drive results. Whether you’re looking to earn a promotion, inspire your team, or improve organizational outcomes, these skills will position you as a leader who can make a measurable difference. What makes this course unique is its logical progression of development — from knowing yourself, to understanding the three pillars of leadership, to mastering essential skills and applying them in real-world contexts. By combining tested principles with practical guidance, it equips you to build leadership that supports both people and performance in any environment. This course is ideal for aspiring and current leaders who are eager to advance their careers and make a positive impact in their organizations. This course has been packaged and distributed by Packt Publishing on behalf of Greenleaf Book Group. Greenleaf Book Group is a hybrid publisher and book distributor dedicated to empowering independent authors and small presses. Renowned for its innovative publishing model, Greenleaf offers a comprehensive suite of services, including editorial guidance, design, distribution, and marketing support, tailored to each author's goals. With a focus on quality and collaboration, Greenleaf has produced numerous bestsellers across a wide range of genres, providing authors with the tools and expertise to maximize their reach and impact in the competitive publishing industry. Copyright © 2022 William Dellecker. All rights reserved.
Imperial College London
Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success
In today’s ever-growing and changing world, being able to think creatively and innovatively are essential skills. It can sometimes be challenging to step back and reflect in an environment which is fast paced or when you are required to assimilate large amounts of information. Making sense of or communicating new ideas in an innovative and engaging way, approaching problems from fresh angles, and producing novel solutions are all traits which are highly sought after by employers. This course will equip you with a ‘tool-box’, introducing you to a selection of behaviours and techniques that will augment your innate creativity. Some of the tools are suited to use on your own and others work well for a group, enabling you to leverage the power of several minds. You can pick and choose which of these tools or techniques suit your needs and interests, focusing on some or all of the selected approaches and in the order that fits best for you. The practical approach of this course enables you to acquire an essential skill-set for generating ideas, with plenty of: - Fun e-tivities and exercises; - Practical lectures and tips; - Video representations of the techniques in action. By the end of this course you should be able to: - Pick a type of brainstorming you think will be useful to apply to a challenge - Use alphabet brainstorming in tackling a challenge - Use grid brainstorming in tackling a challenge - Use a morphological chart to synthesise a solution to a challenge - Use the TRIZ contradiction matrix to identify recommended inventive principles - Apply SCAMPER to a range of challenges The greatest innovators aren’t necessarily the people who have the most original idea. Often, they are people- or teams- that have harnessed their creativity to develop a new perspective or more effective way of communicating an idea. You can train your imagination to seize opportunities, break away from routine and habit, and tap into your natural creativity. Join this course and a community of practitioners in CREATIVITY!
University of Leeds
How to Get Into Web Development
Adding web development to your skillset is an excellent career move if you are into coding and you seek career growth and advancement. In this online course, you will explore the web development specialisations - front-end, back-end and full-stack development, and understand the different roles in a web development team. You'll learn about the architecture of the modern web, covering topics such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, while gaining an understanding of the industry's essentials, including data protection and intellectual property. The course is designed to provide you with insights into the skills required for a career in web technology and how to take your first steps into this exciting career path. Through engaging lessons, interactive quizzes, and real-world insights from web developers, you'll be equipped to explore the exciting possibilities and challenges of web development, concluding the course with valuable guidance on building a professional portfolio. Click Start, a nationwide training programme designed to help young people develop digital skills, offers this course. Click Start offers scholarships giving free access to young people in the UK. Follow the link in the Click Start icon on the top, to check if you are eligible for free access!
PracticalGrowth
Program & Portfolio Strategy for Scaling Delivery
Most organizations don’t struggle because teams can’t execute—they struggle because too many initiatives compete for the same people, dependencies stay invisible, priorities flip midstream, and “green” projects don’t add up to real business value. In this course, you’ll learn how to manage programs and portfolios as a system, not a pile of disconnected projects. You’ll start by distinguishing projects, programs, and portfolios—and how that choice changes how you plan, measure, and lead. Next, you’ll set portfolio-level objectives, apply simple value scoring to prioritize initiatives, and build an initiative inventory that makes work visible and comparable. From there, you’ll map cross-team dependencies, visualize risk with heatmaps, and plan realistically using capacity and historical throughput to avoid the overstuffed roadmap. Finally, you’ll design lightweight change control and governance that keeps decisions moving without bureaucracy, then connect delivery to outcomes through benefits realization, OKRs, and KPIs. By the end, you’ll be able to prioritize better, coordinate across teams, and run portfolio reviews that drive clear decisions to stop, pivot, continue, or scale initiatives.
Packt
Django Web Development
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. Dive into Django web development and build dynamic web applications using Python’s popular framework. This course will guide you through all aspects of Django, from setting up your project to managing databases, creating templates, and building a functional API. By the end, you'll have a deep understanding of the Django framework and how to use it to build professional-grade applications. You'll start by learning about the Django framework and its Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. You'll understand how the MVC pattern is implemented in Django and learn to create a new project in PyCharm. From there, you'll explore the process of creating Django applications, configuring routing, and setting up your development server. As you progress, you will learn how to manage databases and migrations, create models for entities like courses and categories, and build dynamic templates. The course also covers more advanced topics such as creating APIs with Django, integrating authentication, and testing the functionality of your application. This course is ideal for beginners who want to learn web development using Django. It is perfect for developers with some basic knowledge of Python looking to expand their skills into web development. No prior experience with Django is required, but familiarity with Python is beneficial.
Northeastern University
Evaluating the Quality of Healthcare Delivery
In this course, you will have the opportunity to learn about the great progress that has been made in measuring and evaluating quality of care. We will discuss key concepts and methods. You will also learn about how to use websites for comparing the quality of healthcare providers. The course content is intended for a wide range of participants – for example, people who have a general interest in quality of care, consumers seeking information about how to choose a provider for themselves or family members, or leaders of business organizations who are responsible for employee health insurance benefits and network of providers. By the end of this course, the learner should be able to: 1. Explain key developments regarding how quality of care is measured and evaluated in the US. 2. Articulate basic framework for evaluating quality of outcomes of care including types of and criteria for selecting quality measures for evaluating and comparing providers. 3. Discuss scientific issues and challenges for evaluating quality of care and methods for addressing these challenges. 4. Identify and apply resources and tools for comparing the quality of care of providers.
Coursera
Implementing CI/CD with Jenkins: Creating Pipeline as Code
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn the fundamentals of continuous integration/continuous delivery, and how to create an automated deployment pipeline using Jenkins. Through practical hands-on lessons, you'll understand the different Jenkins configurations required for creating the pipeline, including setting up a build tool, installing plugins, and writing the pipeline code. You'll also learn the difference between declarative and scripted pipeline syntax, and how to version control your pipeline by adding a Jenkinsfile to a source control repository. We'll apply these skills to build an end-to-end software delivery pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys a Java spring application. This project will help aspiring DevOps engineers to understand how an automated CI/CD pipeline is implemented in a real-world scenario. To make the most out of this project, it is recommended to have a basic understanding of Maven goals and phases, and the Linux commands to execute them. 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.
Coursera
Student Self-Assessment with Microsoft Word
By the end of this project, you will have created a self-report card and a behaviour reflection form for student self-reflection. You will also be equipped with suggestions for how to use these documents with students. Encouraging our students to reflect on their learning is one of many goals we have as teachers. One valuable way to do this is by allowing our students to share their perspective on the school year. What areas are going well for them? What areas do they see where they could grow? When students identify their own areas for growth, they will be more motivated to set goals to improve in these areas and work to achieve those goals. Throughout each task, we will work together to create documents that you can use with students for self-reflection and can also be used with parents to show their child’s perspective on their school year.
IESE Business School
Parte 1: Construyendo tu liderazgo
Desarrolla tu liderazgo como mujer directiva comprendiendo los factores culturales, biológicos y organizativos que influyen en tu trayectoria profesional. Este curso te guía para identificar frenos y potenciadores, reconocer sesgos inconscientes, y entender cómo tus decisiones impactan en la “ecología humana” de la empresa. Aprenderás a liderar desde motivos trascendentes, fortaleciendo tu autenticidad y tu influencia. A través de marcos prácticos y reflexiones profundas, adquirirás herramientas para avanzar en entornos donde el liderazgo femenino aporta complementariedad y valor estratégico.
Duke University
Understanding Stablecoins
Stablecoins have emerged as the first "killer app" of the crypto space, with annual on-chain transaction volume now exceeding $30 trillion — surpassing Visa and Mastercard combined. Yet most people, including many finance professionals, do not understand how they work, what distinguishes one type from another, or what risks they carry. This course, taught by Duke University Professor Campbell R. Harvey, provides a rigorous yet accessible foundation in stablecoin design, mechanics, and risk. You will learn how fiat-backed stablecoins like USDT and USDC maintain their peg, why tokenized gold could revive a voluntary gold standard, how crypto-collateralized systems like MakerDAO mirror central bank operations, and what caused the $40 billion Terra/Luna collapse. The course details a comprehensive risk taxonomy and an overview of emerging regulatory frameworks, including the GENIUS Act. It concludes that stablecoins will be the currency of the new world of AI-enabled agent-to-agent commerce. Whether you are a finance professional, policymaker, developer, or informed investor, this course equips you to evaluate stablecoins critically - understanding not just the opportunity, but the risks that come with a technology reshaping global payments.
University of Toronto
Introduction To Swift Programming
Introduction to Swift Programming is the first course in a four part specialization series that will provide you with the tools and skills necessary to develop an iOS App from scratch. By the end of this first course you will be able to demonstrate intermediate application of programming in Swift, the powerful new programming language for iOS. Guided by best practices you will become proficient with syntax, object oriented principles, memory management, functional concepts and more in programming with Swift. This course is unique in its dedication to teaching Swift programming. With new features and capabilities you will be at the forefront of writing iOS apps. Currently this course is taught using Swift 2. The team is aware of the release of Swift 3 and will be making edits to the course in time. Please be aware that at this time the instruction is entirely with Swift 2. Please note that to take part in this course (and the full specialization) it is required to have a Mac computer and, though not required, ideally an iPhone, iPod, or an iPad. NOTE: This course has been designed and tested (and content delivered) on a Mac. While we are aware of hacks and workarounds for running Mac in a virtual machine on windows we do not recommended a PC. We hope you have fun on this new adventure.
Coursera
Prezi para pequeñas empresas
Este proyecto te permitirá descubrir Prezi, una plataforma en línea para diseñar presentaciones y contenido de marketing de todo tipo. Aprenderás sobre las características de Prezi y podrás crear varias imágenes atractivas y animadas para tu pequeña empresa.
University of Pennsylvania
Network Dynamics of Social Behavior
How do revolutions emerge without anyone expecting them? How did social norms about same sex marriage change more rapidly than anyone anticipated? Why do some social innovations take off with relative ease, while others struggle for years without spreading? More generally, what are the forces that control the process of social evolution –from the fashions that we wear, to our beliefs about religious tolerance, to our ideas about the process of scientific discovery and the best ways to manage complex research organizations? The social world is complex and full of surprises. Our experiences and intuitions about the social world as individuals are often quite different from the behaviors that we observe emerging in large societies. Even minor changes to the structure of a social network - changes that are unobservable to individuals within those networks - can lead to radical shifts in the spread of new ideas and behaviors through a population. These “invisible” mathematical properties of social networks have powerful implications for the ways that teams solve problems, the social norms that are likely to emerge, and even the very future of our society. This course condenses the last decade of cutting-edge research on these topics into six modules. Each module provides an in-depth look at a particular research puzzle -with a focus on agent-based models and network theories of social change -and provides an interactive computational model for you try out and to use for making your own explorations! Learning objectives - after this course, students will be able to... - explain how computer models are used to study challenging social problems - describe how networks are used to represent the structure of social relationships - show how individual actions can lead to unintended collective behaviors - provide concrete examples of how social networks can influence social change - discuss how diffusion processes can explain the growth social movements, changes in cultural norms, and the success of team problem solving