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Anthropic
Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics
This course teaches you to build Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients with production-ready features. You'll learn to implement sampling—a technique that shifts AI model costs and complexity from servers to clients—and add real-time logging and progress notifications to improve user experience during long-running operations. The course covers roots, MCP's permission system that enables file discovery while maintaining security boundaries. You'll understand the bidirectional communication patterns that make MCP work, including the JSON message types that flow between clients and servers. The course compares two transport methods: STDIO for local development and StreamableHTTP for remote deployments. You'll learn how StreamableHTTP uses Server-Sent Events to work around HTTP's limitations, and when to use stateless configurations for horizontal scaling at the cost of certain features. By completing this course, you'll be able to choose appropriate transport methods based on your deployment needs, implement servers that integrate with language models without direct API access, and understand the architectural trade-offs between different MCP configurations. The hands-on walkthroughs demonstrate each concept with practical implementation examples.
Coursera
Agentic AI Content for Practitioners: Software
Optimize Software Development with Agentic AI is an intermediate-level course designed for software developers, DevOps engineers, and technical leaders who want to harness the power of autonomous AI agents in their development workflows. As Gartner predicts that 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2028, this course provides the strategic foundation and practical skills needed to implement AI agents successfully. You'll master frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph for test automation, learn to integrate AI agents with GitHub Copilot in CI/CD pipelines, and develop comprehensive deployment strategies that avoid the common pitfalls causing 40% of agentic AI projects to fail. Through real-world case studies from Microsoft, McKinsey, and leading tech companies, hands-on exercises, and interactive coaching, you'll build the expertise to transform your development processes with intelligent automation. Whether you're optimizing testing workflows, enhancing CI/CD pipelines, or building resilient DevOps operations, this course equips you with the knowledge and tools to lead the next generation of AI-enhanced software development.
H2O.ai
H2O ai Large Language Models (LLMs) - Level 3
Building on the foundational knowledge from LLM Level 2, this advanced course, Large Language Models - Level 3 is designed to deepen your expertise in using H2O ai's cutting-edge Generative AI tools and techniques. Guided by a team of AI experts including Sanyam Bhutani, Rob Mulla, and Andreea Turcu, the course begins with an in-depth exploration of the H2O ai Generative AI ecosystem, highlighting essential tools like h2oGPT, H2O LLM EvalGPT, and key GenAI components. You will learn how to create your custom h2oGPT models, effectively use various evaluation techniques to assess model performance, and understand the functionalities of LLM EvalGPT. Additionally, you will analyze the elements of the H2O ai GenAI Ecosystem to streamline and enhance your AI workflows. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and confidence to apply these advanced tools and techniques to your business scenarios, making your AI projects more efficient and impactful. This course is ideal for AI and data science professionals, machine learning engineers, researchers, and business professionals looking to advance their skills in generative AI. Upon successful completion, you will earn the LLM Level 3 Certification, demonstrating your proficiency in using H2O ai tools for the above mentioned variety of generative AI tasks. This certification is a valuable asset for your career in AI and data science.
Google Cloud
Using Beam ML to catch Toxicity in Gaming
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console.” In this lab, we will use Apache Beam ML RunInference transform to show how with just a few lines of code you can enable a real-time pipeline that will scale with your needs!
SkillUp
Practice Exam for ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
The need for cybersecurity professionals is on the rise. According to an ISC2 report, over 4 million jobs remain open because of the lack of skilled and qualified cybersecurity professionals. ISC2’s Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) certification exam is an entry-level certification that can help you validate your cybersecurity knowledge and build credibility. If you have been preparing for the exam and want to check your readiness, this course is for you. This short course from Skill Up EdTech is designed to help assess your preparedness for the exam. Understand the eligibility criteria and delve into the exam domain areas. Learn testing strategies and enhance your readiness for the CC certification exam. This practice and mock tests will challenge you with questions across all domain areas. This course assumes basic familiarity with cybersecurity basics and concepts related to the CC exam domain areas. Ready to get started? Enroll now and attempt the CC exam with confidence and calm!
IBM
Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum
Get started with using Agile Development and Scrum with this self-paced introductory course! After successfully completing this course, you will be able to embrace the Agile concepts of adaptive planning, iterative development, and continuous improvement - resulting in early deliveries and value to customers. You will look at Scrum as a framework and learn how to apply it alongside Agile. You will also become familiar with related methodologies like Waterfall, Extreme Programming (XP), and Kanban. Apply Agile practices derived from lean manufacturing concepts, like test-driven development. Learn how a scrum team functions. Also learn about the importance of Agile iterative planning and enable yourself to write good user stories and track your team’s progress using a kanban board. Create and refine a product backlog collaboratively with the team and the customer, in a flexible and blameless culture. You'll also learn how to use burndown charts, achieve sprint goals, and conduct the sprint review and retrospective. This approach will lead you to higher levels of efficiency, with the ability to plan and execute sprints with your development team, measuring success with actionable metrics. This course is about more than facts and processes. It is about working collaboratively on a self-organizing team, coached by a scrum master, and building what is needed, rather than simply following a plan. Developed and taught by an experienced Agile practitioner, the course includes hands-on practice through realistic scenario-based labs using GitHub and ZenHub. The course will benefit anyone who wants to get started with working the Agile way or transform the organizational culture to adopt and realize the benefits of Scrum. This includes Project Managers, Product Managers, and Executives. It is particularly suitable for IT practitioners such as software developers, development managers, and IT Scrum Masters.
EDUCBA
Predictive Analytics with SAS: Build & Deploy Models
By the end of this course, learners will be able to identify, analyze, evaluate, and construct predictive models using SAS Enterprise Miner. They will gain hands-on skills in data preparation, variable selection, model building, performance evaluation, and deployment for real-world business applications. This course empowers learners to confidently transform raw data into actionable insights, compare and optimize models, and deploy decision-ready analytics workflows. Starting with the basics of SAS Enterprise Miner, participants progress through data preparation, variable transformations, decision tree modeling, neural network applications, and advanced regression techniques. Each module includes structured practice and graded quizzes, reinforcing learning and ensuring mastery of predictive modeling concepts. What makes this course unique is its step-by-step, module-based approach aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy, combining theory with interactive practice, real-world case scenarios, and automated SAS tools like Auto Neural and Dmine Regression. Unlike traditional tutorials, this program integrates practical flow diagrams, ensemble modeling, and performance evaluation methods, making learners job-ready for predictive analytics roles in industries like finance, healthcare, and marketing.
EDUCBA
Build a Photo-Sharing Social App in iOS (Swift)
By the end of this course, learners will be able to analyze iOS app architecture, design user-friendly authentication flows, implement social networking features, and construct a fully functional Instagram-style feed using real backend integration. This hands-on iOS development course guides learners step-by-step through building a complete Instagram clone application from scratch. Starting with project setup and client configuration, learners progressively develop login and signup flows, manage user sessions, implement following and unfollowing logic, and design dynamic feeds with posts, comments, and media handling. Each concept is reinforced through practical implementation using real-world patterns commonly applied in professional iOS projects. What makes this course unique is its end-to-end approach—learners do not build isolated features, but instead develop a cohesive, production-style social media application. The course emphasizes clean architecture, backend connectivity, UI refinement, and debugging real feed issues, providing experience that mirrors industry workflows. Upon completion, learners gain the confidence and practical skills required to build scalable social media applications, strengthen their iOS development portfolio, and apply modern iOS concepts to real-world projects.
Coursera
Use and Create Templates
In a fast-growing team, branding consistency often fails not because of bad intent, but because of standardization drift. When every team member interprets brand guidelines individually, the result is a sea of inconsistent fonts, colors, and layouts that slow down review cycles and erode stakeholder trust. This course shifts your mindset from manual policing to system design. You will learn to move beyond static brand guidelines and start building "infrastructure for consistency" using digital templates. We will focus on the strategic decisions that turn a personal document into a scalable team standard. By the end of this course, you will stop fixing margins and start building the workflows that move your team forward. You should be able to: - Explain why manual formatting fails at scale and how templates reduce the "effort cost" of branding. - Identify high-impact pages and clean them into reusable frameworks that focus on structure rather than one-off data. - Master the naming conventions and access settings that ensure your templates are discoverable and actually used by the team. - Move from individual formatting effort to shared structural standards that grow with your organization. This course requires you to have basic familiarity with collaborative platforms and experience creating or editing shared team documentation in digital workspaces. This course is designed for digital strategists, IT managers, and team leads who are responsible for maintaining professional standards across high volumes of content.
University of Colorado Boulder
Movements Are Controlled By Muscle Forces
Movements Are Controlled By Muscle Forces is the first course of the specialization "Science of Movement". In this course, we will delve into the mechanisms by which our nervous system communicates with our muscles, allowing us to perform a wide range of coordinated movements with precision. Whether you are a fitness enthusiast, a sports coach, a medical student, or simply curious about the inner workings of your body, this course will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of how the nervous system plays a vital role in enabling our muscles to produce movements. The discussion begins with an explanation of how the activation signal is generated by neurons and then transmitted to targeted muscles. You will learn how the nervous system provides muscles with the activation signals needed to perform movement. You will learn about the contractile properties of motor units and how the force produced by a muscle depends on the amount of motor unit activity. By the end of this course, you will have gained a deep understanding of the intricate relation between the nervous system and muscle activation. You will be equipped with knowledge that can be applied to various fields, such as exercise prescription, sports performance, physical therapy, and neurology.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Take Your English Communication Skills to the Next Level
This Capstone builds on the communication and content skills you’ve acquired throughout the Specialization and develops them further. During course lessons and Peer Assessments you will practice and expand the language skills necessary for success in the professional world. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to complete assessments relevant to the working world. In this course, you will: * Study cultural influences on communication more thoroughly, identify key cultural influences in your own experience and compare your culture with a different one to identify ways to improve communication and decrease misunderstanding. * Develop your email accuracy and style and engage in email correspondence with potential employers, clients or investors to set up interviews and/or meetings. * Practice and Demonstrate fluent and accurate spoken English as you prepare and present a short talk about a personal accomplishment or “Sales Pitch” for a product or service. * Polish your pronunciation through more connected speech including use of through groups, contractions/reductions, and linking. Week by week, as you practice your language skills, make connections with people important to you and develop your network, you will increase your opportunities for success. Completing this Capstone Project will help you reach your English language and professional goals now and in the future.
BCG
Digitale Transformation
Die digitale Transformation ist ein brandaktuelles Thema – aber was genau ist das und was bedeutet es für Unternehmen? In diesem Kurs, der an der Darden School of Business an der University of Virginia entwickelt wurde und von renommierten globalen Management-Experten der Darden-Fakultät und der Boston Consulting Group geleitet wird, sprechen wir in zweierlei Hinsicht über digitale Transformation. Zunächst befassen wir uns mit der Geschwindigkeit des Wandels und den daraus resultierenden Anforderungen für die Unternehmen. Als nächstes zeigen wir die Rahmenbedingungen für diesen Wandel auf und erläutern, was es braucht, um im digitalen Zeitalter erfolgreich zu sein. Im Anschluss daran sehen wir uns das firmeneigene Framework von BCG an, das Ihnen hilft, Schlüsselbereiche für die Digitalisierung zu identifizieren, einschließlich Strategie, Kernprozesse und Technologie. Am Ende dieses Kurses werden Sie Folgendes beherrschen: – Beschreibung der zugrundeliegenden ökonomischen Bedeutung von Innovation, Technologie und Marktumwälzungen – Abwägen der Vor- und Nachteile der derzeitigen digitalen Technologien, die den Fortschritt vorantreiben – Nutzung des digitalen Transformations-Framework von BCG als „How-to“ für die Digitalisierung Ihres Unternehmens
University of Minnesota
Introduction to Microfabrication
In this introductory course, the field of microfabrication and how it is used to create semiconductor and MEMS devices is presented. Learners will develop a high-level understanding of the basic principles of physics and material properties that power the functionality of these technologies. A foundational overview provides learners with a greater appreciation of the varied and interconnected driving forces that influence device design, fabrication, and testing through the lenses of the fabrication process flow, commercial market, and value chain. Introduction to the cleanroom as a critical component of device success familiarizes learners to the microfabrication environment. This course is part of the Semiconductor and MEMS Fabrication Specialization. It is recommended that learners take the previous courses of the Specialization prior to this course. Please disregard module numbers because the content has been reorganized to improve comprehension and flow of the specialization.
Coursera
Create Charts and Dashboard using Google Sheets
In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create effective charts and a dynamic dashboard to visualize data sets. You will be able to work with vlookups, pivot tables and basic formulas and be able to create dynamic charts, sparklines, and a robust, dynamic dashboard to present the data. By the end of the project you will be able to: - Understand the terminologies of spreadsheets - Work with basic formulas in Google Sheets - Create 8 Basic Charts for visualizing data - Generate Dynamic Charts from a dropdown list - Generate Sparklines to represent data - Build a dashboard and introduce Basic and Advanced Charts - Use Slicers to filter data and create a robust and dynamic dashboard Note: If you don't have a Google account, you will need to create one to be able to complete the content.
EDUCBA
Agile Workflows with TFS: Track, Control & QA Projects
This comprehensive course is designed to empower software development professionals to apply, manage, and evaluate Agile-based workflows using Team Foundation Server (TFS). Through hands-on instruction and structured modules, learners will gain the skills to create and manage work items, configure source control using both TFVC and Git, and implement automated build and release pipelines. The course also explores in-depth test management using test plans, shared steps, and result tracking. Participants will learn how to monitor project health through dashboards and summaries, connect Visual Studio to TFS environments, and streamline collaborative development across teams. By the end of this course, learners will be able to effectively construct, organize, analyze, and evaluate development processes using TFS to ensure project visibility, accountability, and continuous delivery excellence.
Duke University
Electric Industry Operations and Markets
This is a two week course. In the first week you will learn about the core activities that the Industry executes to bring electricity to customers. We will review what electricity is, how it is generated, how it is transmitted, how it comes into buildings, and how consumption of electricity instantly feeds back on the transmission and generation of electricity. You will learn to: Define what electricity is; Describe how electricity is generated, transmitted and distributed; Describe how electricity is generated, transmitted and distributed; and Summarize how the consumption of electric energy instantly feeds back on the transmission and generation of electricity. In the second week, the course shifts to the markets that drive Electric Industry operations. You will learn about the various costs of the electric industry’s core activities, how electricity is priced, the various ways that electric markets are structured, how these market structures determine which power plants are dispatched to produce electricity when, and how recent changes in generator fuel prices, generation technology, market regulations, and environmental regulations are transforming both Electric Industry Markets and Operations. You will learn to: Describe the main cost components to the electric system; Compare the costs of different types of power plants; Interpret the retail pricing of electricity; Explain the different types of electric markets and understand how they operate to dispatch electric supply to meet demand in real time; and Explain why and how the electric industry is regulated.