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Packt
Installation, User Accounts, and File Systems
This course begins by walking you through the process of installing macOS Mojave, covering everything from hardware requirements to configuration options. You'll explore the various installation methods, including troubleshooting common installation issues and performing system recovery. Whether you're setting up a new system or upgrading an existing one, you'll gain the confidence to handle it all. Next, you'll dive into managing user accounts, a critical aspect of macOS administration. You will learn to create and manage different types of user accounts, configure parental controls, and secure your system using advanced user account settings. By the end of this section, you'll be equipped to handle multiple users on a single system while maintaining high security and functionality standards. The final part of the course delves into macOS file systems, including APFS and HFS+. You'll learn how to set up, manage, and secure your drives, using features like FileVault for encryption and UNIX-style permissions for access control. By mastering these concepts, you’ll ensure your system and data remain secure and efficient, even in complex multi-user environments. This course is designed for IT professionals, system administrators, and macOS enthusiasts who have a basic understanding of operating systems and want to enhance their knowledge of macOS Mojave. No prior experience with macOS is required, but familiarity with general computing concepts is recommended.
Coursera
Automate Workflows in MailChimp
Ready to transform your email marketing from manual to magical? This Short Course was created to help marketing professionals accomplish sophisticated automation without the complexity. By completing this course, you'll be able to set up triggered workflows that work 24/7, engage your audience at the perfect moments, and optimize performance using data-driven insights. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Set up automated response workflows in MailChimp including triggers for engagement and re-engagement campaigns Assess automation efficacy by measuring response times and campaign flow, optimizing as needed This course is unique because it focuses on practical implementation with real MailChimp workflows you can immediately apply to your business. To be successful in this project, you should have a background in basic MailChimp email creation and list management.
EDUCBA
Analyze Advanced Cost Accounting Techniques Practically
By completing this course, learners will analyze cost structures, apply advanced costing techniques, and evaluate profitability using real-world costing methods. They will gain the ability to prepare and interpret cost sheets, allocate costs accurately using job and batch costing, and implement Activity-Based Costing (ABC) to support informed managerial decisions. This course equips learners with practical, industry-relevant cost accounting skills essential for management accounting, finance roles, and professional exams. Through structured modules and example-driven lessons, learners move from foundational cost sheet preparation to advanced cost allocation techniques used in modern organizations. Each concept is reinforced with numerical illustrations, ensuring strong conceptual clarity and application ability. What makes this course unique is its step-by-step practical approach, clear linkage between traditional and modern costing systems, and strong focus on decision-oriented cost analysis rather than theory alone. Learners develop job-wise, batch-wise, and activity-based cost evaluation skills that directly translate to workplace and examination success. This course is ideal for commerce students, accounting professionals, MBA aspirants, and cost accounting exam candidates seeking to strengthen analytical and problem-solving skills in advanced cost accounting.
EDUCBA
Analyze Business Data Using Statistics Foundations
By completing this course, learners will be able to analyze business data using statistical methods, apply probability models to real-world scenarios, perform hypothesis testing, interpret statistical distributions, and evaluate relationships between variables to support data-driven decision-making. This course provides a comprehensive foundation in Business Mathematics and Statistics, designed to bridge theory with practical business and analytics applications. Learners progress from understanding data types and sampling methods to mastering probability, distributions, matrix mathematics, and statistical inference. The course emphasizes real-world relevance by connecting statistical concepts with machine learning fundamentals and business decision contexts. Learners benefit by developing the ability to interpret data accurately, manage uncertainty, and justify decisions using statistical evidence—skills highly valued in analytics, finance, operations, and management roles. Step-by-step explanations, structured modules, and applied examples ensure clarity even for learners with minimal mathematical background. What makes this course unique is its integrated approach, combining statistics, probability, mathematical foundations, and applied hypothesis testing within a single learning pathway. The curriculum is industry-aligned, assessment-driven, and optimized for both academic learning and professional upskilling, making it ideal for business students, aspiring analysts, and working professionals.
Microsoft
Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization
Discover the power of data visualization and analysis in this beginner-friendly course. Learn how to turn raw data into meaningful insights using R's visualization tools and Microsoft's development environment. Through hands-on practice, you'll learn to create engaging visualizations and understand basic statistical patterns, all while using AI assistance to enhance your learning.
Harvard Business Review
Foster a Culture of Innovation
Organizations that innovate consistently outperform their competitors and adapt faster to changing markets. In this course, you'll learn how to cultivate creative thinking, identify breakthrough opportunities, and transform ideas into valuable solutions. Discover strategies to foster curiosity, evaluate risks strategically, and build collaborative innovation ecosystems. Boost your ability to prioritize promising innovations, design effective experiments, and create stakeholder support that drives successful implementation across your organization. By the end of this course, learners will be able to lead comprehensive innovation initiatives by cultivating creative thinking, systematically identifying and prioritizing opportunities, implementing strategic experimentation processes, and building organizational support systems that transform innovative ideas into sustainable competitive advantages.
Coursera
OutSystems Advanced App Architecture and Performance
OutSystems Advanced App Architecture and Performance is designed for experienced developers and architects aiming to deliver robust, scalable, and high-performing enterprise applications. In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, app success isn't just about launching quickly—it’s about building for long-term reliability, adaptability, and growth. This course guides you through modular architecture best practices, real-world performance optimization strategies, and hands-on troubleshooting—all anchored by industry-leading case studies from Bosch, HEINEKEN, Fortescue, the Portuguese Air Force, and Oakland City. You'll learn to diagnose and resolve bottlenecks, strengthen team and system resilience, and drive continuous improvement after production incidents. Through scenario-driven videos, practical labs, and reflective discussions, you’ll gain the tools and confidence to architect OutSystems solutions that are not only fast, but future-ready—empowering you to lead both technical and cultural transformation in your organization.
Starweaver
Strategic Public Relations Planning
In the realm of modern public relations, practitioners face evolving challenges due to shifting media dynamics, new tools, and emerging opportunities. This course provides a comprehensive exploration of strategic PR planning within corporate communication, covering foundational concepts, measurement analysis, ethics, and execution. Real-world examples offer context and insights to reinforce key concepts. Participants gain a nuanced understanding of the pivotal role of strategic PR planning in corporate communication. They develop skills to craft compelling PR initiatives rooted in robust strategic frameworks. Integration of technologies like GenAI enhances operational efficiency and data-driven insights. Measuring PR effectiveness using appropriate metrics is a key takeaway. Participants learn to evaluate campaign impact and optimize strategies. Essential skills for stakeholder engagement, teamwork, and adapting to the evolving PR landscape are emphasized. Case studies, from successful campaigns like Dove's #selfietalk to cautionary tales like BP's crisis management failure, offer valuable insights. Tailored to a beginner to intermediate level audience, this 4-hour course is for PR professionals, corporate communication managers, marketers, and business leaders aiming to master strategic PR planning and execution.
Coursera
Solving ML Regression Problems with AWS AutoGluon
Hello everyone and welcome to this new hands-on project on Machine Learning Regression with Amazon Web Services (AWS) AutoGluon. In this project, we will train several regression models using a super powerful library known as AutoGluon. AutoGluon is the library behind AWS SageMaker autopilot and it allows for quick prototyping of several powerful models using a few lines of code.
Coursera
Generative AI Content and Prompt Optimization
By completing this course, you will be able to use generative AI tools to create, optimize, and personalize content that improves SEO performance and brand visibility across digital channels. Generative AI Content and Prompt Optimization introduces how generative AI models produce text and visual content and how these outputs can be guided using structured prompts and SEO best practices. You’ll learn how keyword placement, prompt design, and content requirements influence AI-generated results and on-page SEO outcomes. This course emphasizes hands-on application. You’ll practice creating AI-generated written and visual assets aligned with brand guidelines, generate SEO-optimized meta descriptions, and design prompts that support personalization and A/B testing. You’ll also explore how dynamic content blocks and variables can be used to tailor content for different audiences and marketing use cases. What makes this course unique is its focus on practical prompt optimization for SEO and marketing workflows. Rather than treating AI as a black box, you’ll learn how to control inputs, evaluate outputs, and refine AI-generated content based on clear quality and SEO criteria. This course builds directly on foundational SEO concepts and prepares you for advanced content, strategy, and analytics work later in the program.
Google Cloud
Créer des applications d'IA générative sur Google Cloud
Les applications d'IA générative peuvent créer de nouvelles expériences utilisateur qu'il était quasiment impossible d'obtenir avant l'invention des grands modèles de langage (LLM). En tant que développeur d'applications, comment pouvez-vous utiliser l'IA générative pour créer des applications interactives et performantes sur Google Cloud ? Dans ce cours, vous allez découvrir les applications d'IA générative, et comment vous pouvez utiliser la conception de requêtes et la génération augmentée par récupération (RAG) pour créer des applications performantes à l'aide de LLM. Vous allez vous familiariser avec une architecture prête pour la production qui peut être utilisée pour les applications d'IA générative, et vous allez créer une application de chat basée sur des LLM et sur le RAG.
Berklee
FL Studio Basics
FL Studio is one of the most powerful digital audio workstations (DAW) on the market today. This music software has come a long way since entering the market as “FruityLoops” at the turn of the century: It now has functions that can take your music project from a scratch track to a mastered mix, and even allows you to create visuals to accompany your audio. This course is designed to take you through the basics of using FL Studio and show you what makes it unique from other DAWs out there. You will start by learning the primary windows and functions in FL Studio before practicing recording with audio and MIDI. Finally, we will broadly cover mixing and mastering a musical project. By the end of this course, you will be able to take your musical ideas from basic beginnings to a mastered final product.
University of California, Davis
Advanced Content Marketing Strategies and Tactics
This course is designed to advance your content marketing skills by combining strategic thinking with practical execution. You’ll learn how to create content that drives measurable business impact, resonates with your audience, and amplifies your brand identity across channels. Starting with the fundamentals of goal setting and brand voice, you’ll explore how to align content objectives with business goals using the SMART framework. Next, you’ll dive into audience insights, building detailed buyer personas, mapping the buyer journey, and applying tools to optimize engagement. From there, you’ll uncover the essentials of content distribution, including how to plan and organize with a content calendar, select the right formats, and leverage User-Generated Content (UGC) to foster community and trust. Finally, you’ll learn to develop content themes and incorporate seasonality into your strategy, ensuring your content remains timely, relevant, and impactful. By the end of this course, you’ll have a comprehensive toolkit for creating, distributing, and optimizing content that connects with audiences and delivers real business results.
Clemson University
Database Management Systems
This course introduces database concepts as related to the design of online data systems. This course will focus on the design and use of the MySQL relational database and Structured Query Language (SQL). Problems involving structuring, creating, maintaining, and accessing multi-user databases are presented and solutions developed. Comparisons of several commercially available database management systems are made including NoSQL systems.
Coursera
Budgeting & Visualize Financial Variances
Budgeting & Visualize Financial Variances is designed for professionals who need to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights. You will move beyond basic spreadsheets to master the essential skills of variance analysis and data visualization. The curriculum provides a hands-on approach to transforming raw financial data into a dynamic report, empowering you to immediately enhance your financial analysis and reporting capabilities. You will learn to define and calculate key financial metrics, including budget, forecast, and variance. Through practical, step-by-step guidance, you will apply conditional formatting rules to automatically highlight critical information, such as cost overruns or savings. The course uses real-world scenarios to build your skills. By the end, you will be able to build and interpret visually intuitive dashboards that enable managers to make faster, more informed decisions based on at-a-glance financial insights. This course is your next step toward mastering data-driven financial storytelling.
Packt
Automating Image Creation with HashiCorp Packer for DevOps
Updated in May 2025. This course now 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. Unlock the power of HashiCorp Packer to automate image creation for cloud and on-prem environments. This course provides a deep dive into Packer's architecture, installation, and workflow, giving you hands-on experience in building, configuring, and optimizing machine images across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware. You'll start with the core concepts of Packer, including templates, command-line usage, and workflow automation. Then, you'll explore builders, variables, provisioners, and post-processors, understanding how Packer integrates seamlessly with modern DevOps workflows. You'll gain practical experience through hands-on labs that demonstrate building multi-cloud, multi-region, and OS-specific images. The course also covers advanced integrations with Terraform, Ansible, Vault, and GitLab CI/CD, showcasing how Packer fits into a broader DevOps pipeline. You'll also dive into troubleshooting techniques like debugging and breakpoints, ensuring you can resolve issues efficiently. Ideal for DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and system administrators, this course assumes basic familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts, cloud platforms, and command-line usage. Whether you're new to Packer or looking to refine your skills, this course will elevate your automation expertise.