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Amazon Web Services
Amazon Inspector - Getting Started
With Amazon Inspector, you can continually assess your workloads for vulnerabilities. In this course, you will learn the benefits and technical concepts of Amazon Inspector. If you are new to the service, you will learn how to start using Amazon Inspector through a demonstration using the AWS Management Console. You will learn about the native architecture and how the built-in features can help you view and analyze security findings.
Microsoft
Data Structures and Algorithms
This course explores data structures and algorithms for back-end development, focusing on performance and scalability. You'll learn to analyze, implement, and optimize key structures and algorithms in .NET Core to efficiently solve real-world back-end challenges. By the end of this course, you will be able to… Analyze the efficiency of common data structures (arrays, linked lists, trees, graphs) and algorithms (sorting, searching) to determine their impact on back-end development. Implement data structures and algorithms in .NET Core to solve specific back-end problems, including sorting, searching, and traversal tasks, with a focus on performance and scalability. Design scalable back-end applications using appropriate data structures and algorithms, optimizing for performance in areas such as database query handling and large-scale data processing within the final project. Optimize back-end code for performance by applying advanced algorithmic techniques and refactoring inefficient solutions based on complexity analysis throughout the course.
University of Michigan
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
In this course, learners will be introduced to the concept of the Industrial Internet of Things, or IIoT, learn how it is applied in manufacturing, and what businesses should consider as they decide to implement this technology. Considerations include information technology infrastructure, the business value of implementing IIoT, and what needs to happen across the organization to ensure successful implementation. Learners will hear from industry experts as they share their perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of implementing IIoT, how IIoT is being implemented in their companies, and insights on the future of this technology within their industry and across manufacturing. The content presented in this course draws on a number of real-life interviews and case studies, and was created through a partnership with Siemens.
Cisco Learning and Certifications
Cloud and Hybrid Applications and Media Resources
Seamless communication is essential for today’s dynamic workplaces—and hybrid integration is the key to unlocking true flexibility. In this course, you’ll discover how to connect Cisco Webex’s powerful collaboration tools across on-premises and cloud environments, creating a unified experience for your organization. Explore in-depth modules on implementing and managing Webex Voicemail, Edge Audio, and Video Mesh. You’ll learn to configure voicemail storage, enable transcription, establish robust security, and optimize call routing with SIP trunks. The course’s hands-on approach sets it apart, offering step-by-step configuration guidance, best practices, and vital network considerations for hybrid deployments. Beyond technical implementation, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of Hybrid Calendar, Hybrid Message, Hybrid Security, and Hybrid Serviceability—essential services for modern collaboration. By course end, you’ll be equipped to integrate and manage a resilient Cisco hybrid infrastructure, supporting both current needs and future cloud migration. Empower your organization to collaborate smarter, faster, and more securely.
Packt
Spring Boot Microservices with Spring Cloud!
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 will learn how to build robust microservices using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. You'll start by understanding the limitations of traditional monolithic architectures and then explore the powerful microservices approach. You'll go step by step from setting up your environment to creating your first microservice and implementing advanced features like service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance. As you progress, you will develop a deep understanding of microservices architecture, best practices, and how to leverage Spring Cloud tools for building scalable, reliable systems. By the end of the course, you'll be able to create complex microservices applications and deploy them with Spring Cloud, handling issues like configuration management and distributed tracing along the way. This course also covers critical concepts such as reactive programming using Spring WebFlux, resilience with Hystrix and Resilience4j, and log aggregation using the ELK stack. You'll gain hands-on experience with microservices components such as Eureka for service discovery, Netflix Ribbon for load balancing, and Spring Cloud Config Server for externalized configuration. Whether you're building a new application or modernizing an existing one, the skills you'll develop here are highly applicable for real-world projects. The course is designed for anyone interested in learning Spring Boot and Spring Cloud in the context of microservices, from developers to architects looking to improve system scalability and reliability.
Skillshare
Creatively Fearless: Overcoming Burnout & Finding Your Spark
By the end of this course, you will be able to define creative fearlessness for yourself, uncover the early sparks that shaped your creativity, and design a personalized “Creative Compass” to guide your future work with clarity and courage. In this powerful, reflective class, Senior Art Director Sarah Edwards shares the mindset shift that transformed her creative life: the opposite of fear isn’t confidence—it’s coexistence. Through guided exercises like exploring the five senses of childhood, rediscovering your “First Fire,” identifying your personal color palette, and finding the “needles in your haystack,” you’ll reconnect with the creative threads that have always been there. Step by step, you’ll translate these discoveries into a visual Creative Compass—a tangible reminder of your inner flame. This course is for anyone who has ever felt stuck waiting for confidence to arrive. Whether you’re a designer, illustrator, entrepreneur, hobbyist, or simply someone longing to create more freely, this class is for you. No prior experience is required—just openness, honesty, and a willingness to reflect. Come ready to dig deep, and leave as your own creative hero.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Mandarin Chinese 3: Chinese for Beginners
Mandarin Chinese 3: Chinese for beginners is a beginner's course of Mandarin Chinese in continuation of Mandarin Chinese 2: Chinese for beginners. It uses lectures, short plays, interactive exercises and cultural tips to help learners build a fundamental capability of oral Chinese in real-life situations. At the end of the 5-lesson course, the learners will reach the following proficiency: ♦ 500 words ♦ 60 language points ♦ handling 15 real-life situations. Completing "Learn Mandarin Chinese 2: Chinese for beginners" or having attended Chinese courses of any types for at least 30 hours is the prerequisite.
University of California, Santa Cruz
Bayesian Statistics: Techniques and Models
This is the second of a two-course sequence introducing the fundamentals of Bayesian statistics. It builds on the course Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis, which introduces Bayesian methods through use of simple conjugate models. Real-world data often require more sophisticated models to reach realistic conclusions. This course aims to expand our “Bayesian toolbox” with more general models, and computational techniques to fit them. In particular, we will introduce Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, which allow sampling from posterior distributions that have no analytical solution. We will use the open-source, freely available software R (some experience is assumed, e.g., completing the previous course in R) and JAGS (no experience required). We will learn how to construct, fit, assess, and compare Bayesian statistical models to answer scientific questions involving continuous, binary, and count data. This course combines lecture videos, computer demonstrations, readings, exercises, and discussion boards to create an active learning experience. The lectures provide some of the basic mathematical development, explanations of the statistical modeling process, and a few basic modeling techniques commonly used by statisticians. Computer demonstrations provide concrete, practical walkthroughs. Completion of this course will give you access to a wide range of Bayesian analytical tools, customizable to your data.
The University of Edinburgh
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
What is your cat revealing to you when she purrs? What is your dog expressing when he yawns or wags his tail? Understanding your cat and dog’s behaviour and the way they communicate with you, will enable you to better understand their needs and strengthen your relationship with them. This MOOC is divided into five topics, the appliance of science; behaviour and body language, senses and perception; challenges for the human-animal relationship, including pet problem behaviour; and how to improve the quality of life for cats and dogs in our care. At the start of the course we ask you to consider what you feel is important to your cat/dog and what your cat/dog means to you? We explore the world of cats and dogs and how our relationships with them vary around the world and have changed over time. We ask if we can really know what our animals are thinking or trying to communicate through their facial expressions and behaviours. From our beloved pets to street dogs, shelter dogs/cats and welfare challenges, we explore the world from their perspective and examine how their genetic make-up may influence their behavioural responses and choices. We dispel common behavioural myths by looking through a scientific lens, asking questions about the function and development of their behaviour.. We explore how their senses help them to interact with their world and how they communicate with each other and us! Finally, we ask whether we impose unrealistic expectations on our cats and dogs and how this affects their ability to live alongside us. We ask, what can we do to be more responsible pet owners and to ensure the welfare of all cats and dogs in society? This MOOC explores different scientifically validated methods that can help you to better understand your pet, to enrich their lives and help you to be a more educated and confident pet owner. Learners can apply for Financial Aid directly with Coursera to assist with the cost of accessing the full course and gaining a certificate for successfully completing the course.
Coursera
Marketing Data Analysis and Visualization Fundamentals
Data-driven marketing starts with knowing how to collect, interpret, and present the right numbers. In this course, you'll build the foundational skills that modern digital marketing professionals use every day — from reading web traffic reports to creating charts that tell a story at a glance. You'll get hands-on practice with industry-standard tools, including Excel pivot tables, Google Analytics 4, and data visualization platforms like Tableau and Power BI. Along the way, you'll learn how to define and track key performance indicators, distinguish between leading and lagging metrics, and structure performance data in tracking documents that keep teams aligned. Whether you're supporting a campaign, contributing to a weekly report, or preparing your first analytics dashboard, this course gives you the technical foundation and practical workflow skills to do the job with confidence. No prior analytics experience is required — just a willingness to work with real data and deliver results that matter.
University of Virginia
Patrick Henry: Forgotten Founder
“Give me liberty, or give me death:” Remembering Patrick Henry, the Forgotten Founder Patrick Henry was enormously popular during the American Revolution. Even Thomas Jefferson, who over time developed a deep loathing of Henry (some would say jealousy), had to admit that “it is not now easy to say what we should have done without Patrick Henry.” Edmund Randolph, a patriot leader in his own right, explained that “It was Patrick Henry … awakening the genius of his country, and binding a band of patriots together to hurl defiance at the tyranny of so formidable a nation as Great Britain.” Yet, today, Patrick Henry is ill-remembered; most Americans might recall at best perhaps a snippet from a famous speech: “give me liberty, or give me death.” The reasons for our historic forgetfulness are several: after the Revolution, Henry chose to oppose ratification of the U.S. Constitution, believing that it created a distant and too-powerful government, and he refused proffered position in George Washington’s administration, diminishing his historic memory. Equally important, Henry died in 1799 shortly after a political campaign in which, at Washington’s behest, he opposed Jefferson’s and James Madison’s ill-advised radical states’ rights attack on the U.S. government, and Jefferson spent the next twenty-six years systematically attacking Henry’s legacy. Patrick Henry, who helped to ignite a revolution, deserves better. This course will explore how he over¬came challenges to reach the pinnacle of Virginia politics and unite Americans behind a challenge to Britain – the eighteenth century’s super-power, why he opposed the U.S. Constitu¬tion, and why he then came out of retirement to defend the people’s Constitution against the attacks of Jefferson and Madison. Participants should evaluate Henry’s role in proclaiming a revolution and consider whether he had an equally important role in saving it. The course should also develop an improved appreciation for the complex political, economic, and religious forces that shaped the early republic. As a biographical course, it also demonstrates how personalities play an important role in even the most foundational national history. Image Attribution: The background image for this webpage is Patrick Henry before the Virginia House of Burgesses by Peter F. Rothermel (1851) with special thanks to the owner, the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation. The painting of Patrick Henry's 1765 "Caesar had his Brutus" speech (discussed in the second lecture) is entirely romanticized -- neither Henry nor the House of Burgesses looked at all like this -- but it does show that hagiography of Henry, almost god-like veneration, began shortly after this death.
Coursera
Procurement for Governments
In this course, you'll explore the essential principles and processes of government procurement, gaining the tools and knowledge needed to navigate public sector purchasing. From understanding transparency and accountability to managing procurement lifecycles, this course will equip you with the foundational skills required to succeed in government procurement while upholding ethical standards. This course is ideal for procurement officers, procurement managers, legal professionals, and anyone involved in or interested in local and central government procurement practices. Whether you're new to procurement or looking to strengthen your skills, this course will provide valuable insights into the procurement process. Participants should have a basic understanding of procurement concepts, including sourcing, selecting suppliers, and managing supplier relationships. No prior experience in government procurement is necessary, but a general knowledge of procurement will be helpful for contextual understanding. By the end of this course, learners will be able to examine the fundamental principles of government procurement, analyze how transparency and fairness contribute to successful procurement practices, evaluate the procurement lifecycle, and recognize the impact of unethical practices and sustainability on procurement outcomes.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Introducción a la programación en Python I: Aprendiendo a programar con Python
Decía Steve Jobs que “todo el mundo debería aprender a programar un ordenador porque esto te ayuda a pensar”. Hoy en día la programación es una herramienta fundamental para el desarrollo de la tecnología moderna. Este curso te introduce en el mundo de la programación en el lenguaje Python. De una forma práctica, aprenderás de forma gradual desde el tratamiento básico de variables hasta la programación de algoritmos para construir tus propios juegos. Además, te familiarizarás con los conceptos fundamentales para el desarrollo de algoritmos y su programación. Al finalizar el curso, serás capaz de desarrollar tus propios programas en Python y de seguir explorando para construir nuevos programas y cada vez más complejos. Este curso es el primer paso para convertirte en un/a profesional con habilidades básicas de programación y abrirte la puerta al futuro.
Coursera
Quantitative Research Methods: Tools for Data Analysis
In this course, you will explore the world of quantitative research methods and data analysis using Excel and R. Whether you’re a student, business owner, or nonprofit professional, you’ll gain practical tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data for meaningful insights. Through engaging lessons and hands-on practice, you’ll learn to confidently apply statistical techniques and ethical considerations in your research projects. This course is designed for individuals who are looking to enhance their skills in quantitative research and data analysis. It's ideal for undergraduate students in social or behavioral sciences who need to build a solid foundation in research methods. Entry-level data analysts or interns will also benefit from this course, as it provides practical tools to work with data using Excel and R. Additionally, small business owners seeking to make data-driven decisions and educators or researchers new to quantitative methods will find the content accessible and relevant to their work. To get the most out of this course, learners should have basic computer skills and a general familiarity with spreadsheets (Excel). No advanced statistical knowledge or programming experience is required, as the course starts with the fundamentals and builds up to more complex concepts in an easy-to-understand manner. By the end of this course, you will have a solid foundation in quantitative research methods, including designing studies, analyzing data with Excel and R, and addressing ethical considerations. You’ll be equipped with practical tools to interpret and report your findings confidently. Whether you're diving into research for the first time or enhancing your existing skills, the techniques you've learned here will empower you to approach data with a critical and informed mindset. Keep applying these methods, continue exploring more advanced topics, and watch as your data skills unlock new opportunities for you!
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Aprender
¿Quieres conocer tus recursos y niveles de desempeño relacionadas con tu proceso de aprender? ¿Te interesa desarrollar habilidades para aprender más y mejor? En APRENDER conocerás y pondrás en práctica, de forma sencilla y práctica, resultados de investigación recientes sobre los procesos de lectura, almacenamiento de información, recuperación de recuerdos y velocidad de procesamiento. Así, podrás utilizar, de forma eficiente, estrategias y técnicas muy útiles en tu vida académica, profesional y cotidiana.
Goodwill Industries International
The Digital Divide
This course, co-developed by Goodwill Industries International and World Education, is for anyone who wants to understand what it means to work in the 21st Century Workplace and support individuals who want to navigate our complex digital landscape and help others to safely engage in online activities and flourish in a technology-driven landscape.