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INSEAD
Introdução às Tecnologias Blockchain
Nesse primeiro curso de especialização, discutiremos as limitações da internet para os negócios e atividades econômicas, e explicaremos como a tecnologia blockchain representa o caminho ara evoluir. Depois de completar esse curso, você será capaz de explicar como a blockchain é, como funciona, e porque é revolucionária. Você irá aprender os conceitos chave tais como mineração, hashing, proof-of-work, chave criptográfica pública e o problema de duplo gasto. Você será capaz de descrever os 7 princípios para a tecnologia blockchain e os desafios enfrentados para que as pessoas desenvolvam essa tecnologia. Você também conhecerá os principais personagens no ecossistema blockchain, e considerará por si próprio a função que desempenhará na revolução blockchain.
University of Michigan
The Future of Payment Technologies
Discover the future of payment technology, from mobile payments to tokenization. In this course, you will learn new ways of making payments from consumer-to-business (C2B), from consumer-to-consumer (C2C), and from business-to-business (B2B). You will explore current payment system technologies to examine their strengths and weaknesses, and understand the ways technological innovation is changing these traditional systems. You’ll learn about new front-end innovations like digital wallets and mobile payments and also discover back-end innovations like tokenization, mobile money, and new payment infrastructure.
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Machine Learning: Techniques and Applications
The course "Applied Machine Learning: Techniques and Applications" focuses on the practical use of machine learning across various domains, particularly in computer vision, data feature analysis, and model evaluation. Learners will gain hands-on experience with key techniques, such as image processing and supervised learning methods while mastering essential skills in data pre-processing and model evaluation. This course stands out for its balance between foundational concepts and real-world applications, giving learners the opportunity to work with widely-used datasets and tools like scikit-learn. Topics include image classification, object detection, feature extraction, and the selection of evaluation metrics for assessing model performance. By completing this course, learners will be equipped with the practical skills necessary to implement machine learning solutions, enabling them to apply these techniques to solve complex problems in data processing, computer vision, and more.
Rice University
Portfolio Selection and Risk Management
When an investor is faced with a portfolio choice problem, the number of possible assets and the various combinations and proportions in which each can be held can seem overwhelming. In this course, you’ll learn the basic principles underlying optimal portfolio construction, diversification, and risk management. You’ll start by acquiring the tools to characterize an investor’s risk and return trade-off. You will next analyze how a portfolio choice problem can be structured and learn how to solve for and implement the optimal portfolio solution. Finally, you will learn about the main pricing models for equilibrium asset prices. Learners will: • Develop risk and return measures for portfolio of assets • Understand the main insights from modern portfolio theory based on diversification • Describe and identify efficient portfolios that manage risk effectively • Solve for portfolio with the best risk-return trade-offs • Understand how risk preference drive optimal asset allocation decisions • Describe and use equilibrium asset pricing models.
Duke University
Financial Risk Management with R
This course teaches you how to calculate the return of a portfolio of securities as well as quantify the market risk of that portfolio, an important skill for financial market analysts in banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, and other financial services and investment firms. Using the R programming language with Microsoft Open R and RStudio, you will use the two main tools for calculating the market risk of stock portfolios: Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). You will need a beginner-level understanding of R programming to complete the assignments of this course.
Wesleyan University
Capstone: Your Story
Everything comes together in the Capstone. You will draft a complete story, narrative essay, or memoir of 8–15 pages. With the advice of your peer readers, you will revise, rewrite, and complete it. The skills you’ve learned of plotting, setting, physical description, characterization, and stylistic clarity and innovation will culminate in an original work of art all your own. We’ll discuss the steps that professional writers take to bring their work into the public world. Along the way you’ll learn the patient habits of revision that make up the writer’s life.
Queen Mary University of London
Research Instruments and Research Hypotheses
This course concentrates on the design and development of different research instruments. In this vein, the focus will be placed on the development of an instrument design strategy, scales of measurement and the components of the research report. The course begins by looking at the questionnaire development process with a focus on questionnaire design, question type and wording, pretesting and revising. We will consider the identification of scales of measurement and operationalisation, and the design of an online questionnaire. We are going to discuss sources of measurement differences, and the assessment of the reliability of measurements. The issue of the validity of measurements and the various types of validity will also be explored, as well as attitude measurement. We will discuss data preparation and processing, data coding, adjustment, and data analysis using multivariate data approaches. We are also going to explore frequency distribution and measures of location, variability and shape. The course ends with a discussion on hypothesis testing and the use of statistics relevant to cross-tabulations. We will discuss parametric and non-parametric tests in hypothesis testing and group comparison as well as the different sections of the research report.
University of Pennsylvania
Financial Acumen for Non-Financial Managers
In this course, you’ll explore how financial statement data and non-financial metrics can be linked to financial performance. Professors Rick Lambert and Chris Ittner of the Wharton School have designed this course to help you gain a practical understanding of how data is used to assess what drives financial performance and forecast future financial scenarios. You’ll learn more about the frameworks of financial reporting, income statements, and cash reporting, and apply different approaches to analyzing financial performance using real-life examples to see the concepts in action. By the end of this course, you’ll have honed your skills in understanding how financial data and non-financial data interact to forecast events and be able to determine the best financial strategy for your organization.
Coursera
Richte dein Budget und deine Werbung auf Facebook ein
Nach Abschluss dieses Projekts kannst du gezielt dein Budget und deine Werbung für deine Social-Media-Strategie auf Facebook nutzen um deine Zielkundschaft besser anzusprechen. Du wirst gelernt haben deine Werbung und dein Budget entsprechend anzupassen damit du dein Ziel optimal erreichen kannst.
Coursera
GenAI for Financial Controllers: Boosting Budget Accuracy
In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, leveraging AI isn’t just an option—it’s a competitive advantage. GenAI for Financial Controllers: Smarter Budgeting & Forecasting is designed to help finance professionals integrate Generative AI into their budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning workflows with ease. In this course, we’re going to break it all down, no tech-heavy knowledge required. Here’s what you’ll get: 1. What exactly is Generative AI, and why it’s the secret weapon every financial controller should know about (hint: it’s not as complicated as it sounds!) 2. How tools like Power BI, Tableau, and Excel are already helping professionals just like you predict future budgets and make data-backed decisions – faster and more accurately than ever before. 3. Real-world applications of GenAI in budgeting: think automated forecasting, intelligent reporting, and supercharged analysis that helps you make strategic financial decisions. This course is designed for professionals at the intersection of finance and technology, including tech startup managers, finance managers, financial analysts, CFOs, and budget analysts. It is also ideal for Power BI and Tableau enthusiasts, data scientists, accountants, risk managers, auditors, and BI analysts looking to enhance their financial planning and forecasting capabilities using Generative AI. Whether you're optimizing budget strategies or leveraging AI-driven insights for decision-making, this course equips you with the knowledge to stay ahead in an evolving financial landscape. Learners should have basic knowledge of Excel, budgeting, and financial analysis. Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, and AI concepts for data analysis is a great positive. Familiarity with general technology concepts with ability to prompt GenAI tools, like ChatGPT. No programming experience required. By the end of this course, learners will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of GenAI-powered tools in improving budget accuracy and financial decision-making. They will gain hands-on experience designing and implementing AI-driven forecasting models using Tableau and Power BI to tackle complex budgeting challenges. Additionally, participants will learn to synthesize financial data with AI-generated insights, creating dynamic dashboards and reports for strategic financial planning. The course will also cover integrating advanced AI techniques into machine learning-driven budget forecasting models, enhancing precision and efficiency in financial outcomes.
University of London
Managing the Company of the Future
The aim of the course is to provide you with a comprehensive framework for understanding both the traditional principles of management inside companies today as well as the alternative principles that are becoming increasingly important. It provides both theoretical and practical perspectives on the nature of management in today’s organisations.
Alex Genadinik
Using Surveys To Improve Your Customer Service
Learn how to create effective customer surveys to aid your customer service, how to technically put together a feedback form, and what kinds of questions can be most effective at getting you true insight about the experience of your customers. Also, about how to structure customer research initiatives so that your customer research methods match your business goals, and are ultimately effective.
University of California San Diego
Internet of Things Capstone: Build a Mobile Surveillance System
In the Capstone project for the Internet of Things specialization, you will design and build your own system that uses at least 2 sensors, at least 1 communication protocol and at least 1 actuator. You will have a chance to revisit and apply what you have learned in our courses to achieve a robust, practical and/or fun-filled project. We absolutely encourage you to design whatever you can think up! This is your chance to be creative or to explore an idea that you have had. But if you don’t have your own idea, we provide the description of a surveillance system, for you to build. We will participate in the Capstone with you by building a surveillance system that features an off-grid solar powered workstation that will serve as a hub to multiple surveillance sensors. You will be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills you have gained in this course through delivery of industry-appropriate documents such as System Design documents and Unit Test reports. Additionally, you will be asked to describe and show case your project as a short video presentation – appropriate for demonstrating your knowledge and technical communication skills. Learning Goals: After completing this Capstone, you will be able to: 1. Design systems using mobile platforms. You will gain experience in documenting and presenting designs. 2. Develop systems that interface multiple sensors and actuators to the DragonBoard™ 410c system and develop the necessary software to create a fully functional system. 3. Specify unit tests and system tests, run tests and prepare Test Reports as are commonly done by those working in this industry. 4. Gain experience (and feedback!) in making technical presentations.
Goldman Sachs
Social Impact Strategy with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women
This elective course will help you to make sure your business has the influence you want it to have in the world, by developing a social impact that is meaningful to you and your stakeholders. This course supplements the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women course collection, designed for entrepreneurs ready to take their business to the next level. Social impact can take many forms for different people and businesses. It can also be a great way to promote staff engagement and help your business to grow. This course will help you identify the values that are essential to you and how to embed them in your operations so that your business can have the social impact you want, in the areas you want. You will learn how to identify what values are key for you. You will then reflect on whether these values are mirrored within your business and its operations and if this has the social impact you wish. Subsequently, you will examine how to effectively embed these values into your core business processes so that your organisation can actively create change. As part of the course, you will explore tools that can support you in your mission to embed social responsibility and purpose in your business and learn how to measure your business’ success in social impact. This course is one of three elective courses complementing the core 10,000 Women course collection. After completing this course, you may wish to explore other courses from the 10,000 Women collection to suit your needs, such as: Fundamentals of Operations with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women or Fundamentals of Management with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women. The 10,000 Women course collection offers a truly flexible online learning experience. You have the freedom to approach the program in any way that works for you – take any course, or combination of courses, to tailor your learning journey to your individual business growth needs. Find out more about the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women collection in the FAQs.
Coursera
Ищем популярные ключевые слова и хэштеги в Twitter
В этом курсе-проекте продолжительностью 1 час вы научитесь искать популярные ключевые слова и хэштеги в Twitter. Примечание. Этот курс изначально создан для учащихся из Северной Америки. На данный момент мы адаптируем его и для других регионов.
MedCerts
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Introduction
The Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Introduction course provides a comprehensive overview of the scientifically validated approach to understanding and improving human behavior. Designed for those entering the field of behavior analysis, the course explores foundational principles and techniques used to promote meaningful behavior change, particularly in individuals with developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder. Key lessons include ABA and Skill (Behavior) Acquisition, where students will learn how ABA principles are used to teach new skills and increase desired behaviors through structured and evidence-based strategies. The course also covers Discrete Trial Training, a highly structured teaching method that breaks down skills into small, teachable components, emphasizing repetition, reinforcement, and data collection to track progress. The last lesson, Natural Environment Training, focuses on applying ABA techniques in more dynamic, real-life settings to encourage generalization and functional use of skills. This course prepares students for further study in ABA and provides valuable tools for those working in educational, therapeutic or caregiving roles. IMPORTANT: This course is not designed to prepare students for national certification, such as the Registered Behavior Technician credential offered by the BACB. Enrollees will gain the foundational/fundamental knowledge on subject matter relevant to the profession. While references may be made throughout the training to Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs) or Behavior Technicians (BTs), to gain industry certification, a more comprehensive program must be completed through enrollment via approved/eligible schools such as MedCerts.