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Coursera
How To Visualize Your Data Using Microsoft Powerpoint
In this project, you will learn a few methods on how to make your presentations more engaging and visual so you can captivate your audience’s attention and make them easily remember all of the information you are presenting. This guided project is for students, employees and business owners who are beginner users of Microsoft Powerpoint and want their presentations to be more visual and engaging. Using online Microsoft Powerpoint, you will learn how to customize your slides through changing their backgrounds, how to visualize your data through inserting videos and using SmartArt, and how to animate the slides content. Finally, you will learn how to apply and control the transitions between your slides.
Coursera
Comment vendre ses produits et services avec Canva
À la fin de ce projet, vous aurez toutes les compétences de base pour créer du contenu graphique varié qui vous aidera à vendre vos produits et services en utilisant la plateforme Canva, outil en ligne de création et d’édition de visuels Marketing. Vous utiliserez ces divers outils de conception, couleurs et graphiques proposés par Canva.
Coursera
Architecting Scalable Cloud AI Infrastructure
Enterprise AI systems require cloud infrastructure that scales globally while controlling cost and reliability. This course equips you with architecture skills to design multi-cloud AI platforms, build resilient microservices, automate governance, and optimize data systems for generative AI workloads. You will learn to make infrastructure decisions across AWS, Azure, and GCP, identify failure risks in distributed systems, implement automated cost controls, and architect data pipelines that balance performance with budget constraints. Through hands-on enterprise projects, you will create production-ready blueprints with security zones, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks. You will also build microservice templates with standardized logging and tracing, develop compliance automation scripts, and design unified data architectures integrating Kafka and Spark. These skills prepare you for roles as cloud architects, site reliability engineers, and infrastructure leaders deploying AI systems at scale. By the end of the course, you will be able to prevent failures through proactive design, reduce cloud expenses through automation, and build systems that remain resilient under stress.
The State University of New York
Building and Managing Superior Skills
Designed with the modern professional in mind, our skills management course is your transformative journey towards career success. This course offers key insights into strategies for skills-based hiring, enabling you to identify and analyze job-specific skills in your chosen field. You'll establish a systematic process for auditing and advancing your skills, boosting your professional agility. Throughout this course, you'll become familiar with Generative AI as a forward-thinking tool for skills assessment, self-assessment, and development. This understanding will place you at the forefront of your profession, ready to embrace and navigate the rapidly evolving world of AI in skills management. Diving deeper, we unpack the principles of valid and reliable skills assessment, familiarizing you with essential standards and benchmarks. You'll master techniques for assessing skill acquisition and form a robust process for gathering the necessary tools and techniques. Here, we explore the potential of Generative AI, an emerging technology that could further refine these assessment techniques. Then, emphasizing self-awareness, the course guides you to effectively self-assess your job-specific skills, reinforcing your assessments with peer and expert feedback. You'll learn to estimate your total skillset score for specific skill sets, creating a foundation for career advancement. At this stage, we discuss how Generative AI could potentially enhance the accuracy of self-assessments in the future. In the final stages, we discuss planning and executing skill-building training interventions using SMART goals. You'll use innovative tools such as Your Present Job Market Value, Self-Assessment Grid for Skills Evaluation (SAGE), and T-portfolio. The potential of Generative AI to improve these processes is also considered, positioning you at the cutting edge of your professional journey. Upon completion of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge, tools, and innovative thinking necessary to optimize your skill-building journey and achieve career growth and advancement. With our course, you're not just taking a step forward; you're launching into a brighter, AI-augmented future. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: • Identify and analyze job-specific skills in your area of interest. • Develop a systematic process for analyzing and auditing your skills. • Discover standards and benchmarks for assessing mastery of skill acquisition. • Develop a process for gathering tools and techniques for skills assessment. • Self-assess your mastery in job-specific skills, verified using peer/expert feedback. • Estimate your total skillset score for job-specific skill sets. • Plan and execute a skill-building training intervention using SMART skill-building goals. • Understand the potential use of Generative AI in skills assessment, self-assessment, and development and remain at the forefront of your professional journey by being informed about emerging technologies. This course is an invaluable stepping-stone towards your career growth and advancement, giving you the tools, insights, and innovative thinking needed to optimize your skill-building journey.
Packt
Foundations of IT Systems and Operating Systems
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 comprehensive course, you'll build a strong foundation in IT systems and operating systems, starting with the basics of computer hardware and moving on to mastering key concepts like operating systems, file systems, storage technologies, and system security. You will also gain a clear understanding of IT certifications, especially CompTIA A+, and learn how these skills can help you start a successful IT career. The course also includes practical tips for maintaining and troubleshooting operating systems across multiple platforms such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. The journey begins with an introduction to CompTIA A+ certification, and you’ll explore all the major domains of the Core 1 and Core 2 exams. You'll dive into safety practices, professionalism, and communication skills essential for IT technicians. As you progress, you'll gain hands-on experience with different operating systems, how to install and upgrade them, and the ins and outs of mass storage technologies. You'll also learn how to effectively deal with customers, use critical system tools, and manage permissions for different users. This course is ideal for aspiring IT professionals and anyone looking to understand the inner workings of computers and operating systems. No prior technical experience is required, although familiarity with basic computing concepts can be helpful. The course offers both theory and practical exercises, making it suitable for beginners looking to start a career in IT or those wishing to deepen their existing knowledge. By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently handle tasks such as managing operating systems, implementing mass storage, dealing with customer issues, and navigating key IT certification exams. You'll also understand the core concepts of Windows, macOS, and Linux and how to maintain and troubleshoot them effectively.
National Taiwan University
Operations Research (4): Capstone Project
Operations Research (OR) is a field in which people use mathematical and engineering methods to study optimization problems in Business and Management, Economics, Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc. The series of courses consists of four parts, we focus on deterministic optimization techniques, which is a major part of the field of OR. As the fourth part of the series, we invite students to do a capstone project by utilizing everything she/he learned in the first three parts to conduct an OR study. We will give examples about good and bad OR studies and talk more about the what and why of OR studies.
EDUCBA
Build a Construction Website Using WordPress
By the end of this course, learners will be able to install WordPress locally, configure a development environment, customize website design using themes and plugins, build structured website pages, optimize performance, and deploy a fully functional construction website. Learners will also be able to plan and execute a complete WordPress project using industry-relevant workflows. This course provides a hands-on, practical approach to building a real-world construction website using WordPress. Learners begin with foundational concepts and progress through local setup using XAMPP, WordPress installation, and essential configuration. Step by step, the course guides learners through layout customization, theme selection, and plugin configuration to enhance both design and functionality. What makes this course unique is its end-to-end, project-based structure focused on a construction industry use case. Instead of isolated features, learners follow a complete development lifecycle—from planning and page creation to optimization and live deployment. By completing this course, learners gain practical, job-ready WordPress skills that can be directly applied to building and managing professional business websites across industries.
Alex Genadinik
Research On Mindsets From Top Scientists And Universities
Mindsets are our notions and assumptions about the world. In this course, you will learn about which mindsets help you by giving the the right motivation and confidence to approach any situation. Throughout the course, we'll go over a number of studies that show how changing one's mindset, you can change how your body physically responds. Think about that: your mindset can alter your physiology. In other words, your mindsets can alter your physiology. That's incredible. MINDSETS CAN HELP IN MANY AREAS OF LIFE You will be able to apply helpful mindsets to your health and fitness, business and career, goal setting, stress management, confidence, and motivation to achieve anything that is important to you. GROWTH MINDSET vs. FIXED MINDSET We'll also go over research of the growth mindset which helps you get better results by making the possibility of improvement feel attainable. And we'll go over how to get rid of fixed mindsets which are points of view that your situation can't be improved. BEST RESEARCH IN THE WORLD We'll be exploring research coming out from different world-renowned researchers on the topic of mindset like Dr. Alia J. Crum, Carol Dwex, and many others. BY THE END OF THIS COURSE, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: You'll learn how to embrace new and useful mindsets that will be foundational to all your work to improve your life and achieve your goals. And since the all the research shown in this course is Science-based, so you can confidently use it. Invest in yourself. Enroll today!
Packt
Microsoft 365 - File Management and Storage Tools
Master the essential file management and storage tools within Microsoft 365. This course provides you with a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online, two critical tools for enhancing collaboration, file management, and document storage in the business environment. Whether you're looking to improve how your team collaborates or optimize storage management, this course will equip you with the skills to do so. The journey begins with an introduction to OneDrive for Business, where you'll learn its core features, how to sync files, and leverage its integration with Office apps. You'll then move on to SharePoint Online, exploring how to create and manage sites, use document libraries effectively, and design custom web pages for team and organizational use. Each section is filled with practical exercises that reinforce your learning and help you develop a solid understanding of the platform's capabilities. As you progress, you'll also discover the essential concepts of file sharing, co-authoring, and file recovery, which are vital for improving team productivity and file security. The course uses hands-on exercises to help you apply what you've learned and ensure you're prepared to handle real-world scenarios. This course is ideal for business professionals, IT administrators, and anyone involved in managing or storing documents using Microsoft 365 tools. There are no strict prerequisites, but basic familiarity with cloud storage and file management concepts will help. The course is designed for beginners but provides enough depth to benefit intermediate users as well. By the end of the course, you will be able to efficiently manage and share files using OneDrive for Business, create and configure SharePoint sites, design custom SharePoint web pages, and restore deleted files, enhancing your ability to manage collaborative documents in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Johns Hopkins University
Calculus through Data & Modeling: Differentiation Rules
Calculus through Data & Modeling: Differentiation Rules continues the study of differentiable calculus by developing new rules for finding derivatives without having to use the limit definition directly. These differentiation rules will enable the calculation of rates of change with relative ease the derivatives of polynomials, rational functions, algebraic functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, and trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions. Once these rules are developed, they are then applied to solve problems involving rates of change and the approximation of functions.
Wesleyan University
Property and Liability: An Introduction to Law and Economics
Think about the oldest and most familiar principles of American law, property and proportional liability, in a new and surprising way, and learn to apply economic reasoning to an especially important and interesting aspect of life.
Google Cloud
Conceitos básicos do Cloud Spanner
Neste curso, você vai conhecer o Cloud Spanner. Nesta introdução, você vai comparar o Spanner a outros produtos de banco de dados e entender quando usá-lo para atender às suas necessidades de banco de dados relacional em larga escala. Você vai aprender a criar e gerenciar bancos de dados do Spanner usando várias ferramentas no Google Cloud, otimizar esquemas relacionais com o modelo de banco de dados distribuído, interagir com os bancos de dados do Spanner usando as APIs dele, integrar o Spanner aos seus aplicativos e usar outras ferramentas do Google para administrar bancos de dados do Spanner e gerenciar seus dados.
Cisco Learning and Certifications
Implementing BGP in a Service Provider Network
Unlock the complex world of internet routing with this specialized course on transit autonomous systems (AS). Designed for network engineers and IT professionals, you’ll explore how a transit AS operates as the backbone for global data exchange, efficiently routing traffic that originates from or is destined for locations outside its own network. Through engaging modules, learn how BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) interacts and coordinates with internal routing protocols (IGPs) to maintain consistent and reliable network connectivity. What sets this course apart is its in-depth focus on the unique challenges of configuring and troubleshooting a multihomed transit AS. You’ll discover the intricacies of IBGP and EBGP interaction, the importance of recursive route lookups, and the use of IBGP monitoring and troubleshooting commands to solve real-world network issues. By completing this course, you’ll gain practical skills to design, maintain, and troubleshoot transit AS environments, making you an asset for any organization managing complex interconnections across the Internet. Join and advance your expertise where robust routing meets practical problem-solving—empowering you to support the backbone of modern digital communication.
Duke University
Psalms and the Arts
The Psalms offer a path to express a range of human emotion and to encounter God in a new way. In times of great joy or deep grief, how might the Psalms help shape who we are – and who we are to one another? This course invites you to learn from experts in biblical interpretation and the arts to deepen your personal and communal engagement with the Psalms and the arts. In this course, you will meditate on psalms and artworks, engage with the Psalms theologically, explore artful interpretations of the Psalms, and examine the role of the Psalms in the life of the church. At the heart of the course and each session is a series of conversations with artists and scholars who give attention to the Psalms in their professional work and in their worship and prayer practice. This course is valuable for church leaders and members—individually or in community—who want to read and interpret scripture in conversation with the arts. You do not need to have a formal theological education to enroll in this course.
Board Infinity
Java Multi-Threading Mastery: From Basics to Advanced
Course Description: This course offers a thorough exploration of multi-threading in Java, covering fundamental concepts, practical implementation, and advanced techniques. Participants will learn how to create, manage, and synchronize threads, explore thread lifecycle, and handle concurrency issues effectively. The course also addresses thread safety strategies, communication methods between threads, and advanced topics such as atomic objects and thread signaling. Through practical examples and demonstrations, learners will acquire the skills to build high-performance, multi-threaded applications in Java. Learning Objectives: 1. Define the fundamental concepts of multi-threading, including threads, concurrency, and synchronization in Java. 2. Explain the differences between multi-threading and multi-processing and when to use each technique. 3. Apply best practices for creating, managing, and synchronizing threads in Java applications. 4. Analyze and resolve concurrency issues, race conditions, and thread safety challenges using advanced techniques. Target Audience: This course is designed for Java developers, software engineers, backend developers, and IT professionals who want to master multi-threading in Java. It is also suitable for students, graduates, and professionals from other programming backgrounds who wish to enhance their understanding of concurrent programming and develop high-performance applications using Java multi-threading techniques. Disclaimer: This course is an independent educational resource developed by Board Infinity and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially associated with Oracle Corporation or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. This course is not an official preparation material of Oracle Corporation. All trademarks, service marks, and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.
Coursera
Machine Learning with PySpark: Recommender System
Did you know that personalized product recommendations can increase sales by up to 20%? As consumers, we all appreciate suggestions tailored to our tastes, and as AI engineers, we can harness data to deliver that experience. This Guided Project was created to help data analysts and AI enthusiasts learn how to build scalable recommendation systems to enhance customer experience and drive sales. This 2-hour project-based course will teach you how to construct a data processing pipeline using PySpark, implement K-means clustering with OpenAI text embeddings, and develop a recommendation system that suggests products based on user behavior. To achieve this, you will create a personalized product recommendation system by working through a real-world scenario where an e-commerce company needs to improve its recommendation capabilities. This project is unique because it combines powerful tools like PySpark and OpenAI's embeddings for hands-on experience in creating data-driven recommendations. To be successful in this project, you should have basic Python programming skills, familiarity with data processing libraries like Pandas, a basic understanding of machine learning concepts, and some experience with APIs and data manipulation using SQL or PySpark.