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Packt
Protecting Data, Logging, and Monitoring in AWS
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. Enhance your AWS expertise by mastering the critical aspects of data protection, logging, and monitoring. This comprehensive course empowers you to safeguard your data using advanced encryption techniques for data at rest and in transit, effective key management, and robust monitoring solutions. Learn to secure your AWS deployments and ensure compliance with best practices. The course begins with an in-depth exploration of data encryption strategies in AWS. You’ll discover how to classify data, apply encryption, and manage keys effectively. Detailed demos, including S3, EBS, and CloudHSM, will provide hands-on insights into implementing encryption across your AWS ecosystem. You'll also learn to troubleshoot and monitor encryption for enhanced security. Next, dive into logging, monitoring, and alerting systems in AWS. Build skills in designing logging systems, analyzing logs, and automating responses with tools like CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and EventBridge. Explore storage and analysis of logs, custom metrics monitoring, and audit preparation with trusted AWS services. This course is perfect for cloud professionals, AWS admins, and security specialists aiming to enhance their expertise in data security and monitoring. A basic understanding of AWS services and general cloud concepts is recommended. With its intermediate-level content, the course ensures actionable knowledge to strengthen your AWS deployment security.
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Commodity and Currency Hedging
After a brief introduction, this course will first explain hedging, and how one might use hedging as a risk management tool. Then the course will look at both Commodity Hedging and Currency Risk Management and Currency Hedging. Actual examples will be provided and recommendations how to move forward using these risk management techniques.
Google Cloud
Cloud Run Canary Deployments
his is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. Implement a deployment pipeline for Cloud Run that executes a progression of code from developer branches to production with automated canary testing and percentage based traffic management.
O.P. Jindal Global University
Essence of Leadership
Welcome to the Essence of Leadership course! By the end of this course, you will have a thorough understanding of the foundations for leaders, present or future. You will learn about the basic principles and their applications in different contexts. You will gain exposure to different leadership styles and practices of various leaders, past and present. The course orients you to the conceptual and theoretical considerations on the subject with its practical dimension with examples drawn from different domains of life from the recent developments. You will analyze how leadership is intimately linked to the process of obtaining solutions to potential social problems which is not achievable through individual action. You will examine global leadership traits, local-level leadership, and leadership portrayed in popular films that exhibit the different leadership perspectives and their central role in restoring order to otherwise chaotic situations. This course provides a broad base and conduit to learners wishing to pursue a master’s degree program in Public Policy or related degrees in Business Administration or International Affairs. This course is designed for learners with some work experience in public or private organizations. The knowledge you gain from this course will help you advance to leadership positions in your careers or move to jobs that require leadership insights which are necessary for most intermediate and advanced job positions. To succeed in this course, you should have prior experience working in teams, and have a basic understanding of management or leadership. Above all, be interested in these topics.
EDUCBA
Master PL/SQL: Apply, Integrate & Optimize Database Logic
Learners will apply PL/SQL control flow, analyze data structures, integrate business logic, and optimize database programs to solve real-world challenges. By completing this course, they will gain the ability to design efficient PL/SQL workflows, manage variables and loops effectively, create and enhance employee and department tables, and implement advanced features such as cursors, procedures, and normalization techniques. This course benefits learners by providing a hands-on, case study-driven approach where theoretical concepts are reinforced through practical demos, workflow analysis, and real business scenarios like salary management and departmental data processing. By engaging with structured projects, learners not only strengthen foundational skills but also build confidence in applying PL/SQL to complex database systems. What makes this course unique is its step-by-step integration of core PL/SQL programming with real organizational use cases. From simple variable assignments to advanced optimization and integration projects, learners will experience the full lifecycle of PL/SQL development. Upon completion, they will be able to design, implement, and optimize scalable PL/SQL solutions that add immediate value to enterprise database environments.
Adobe
Graphic Design
Unleash your creativity with our Adobe Illustrator course. You'll master essential tools, explore color theory, and learn to create stunning vector art. Get hands-on with industry practices and complete a final project to include in your portfolio and share with the world. Ready to dive in? Let's get started.
Packt
Exploit Development, Malware, & Defensive Strategies
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. This course provides an advanced exploration of exploit development, malware creation, and defensive strategies in ethical hacking. By delving into object-oriented programming, building backdoors, creating malicious payloads, and analyzing network traffic, learners will gain hands-on experience in crafting cybersecurity tools and deploying them for real-world testing. The course also highlights defensive tactics, equipping learners with the skills necessary to protect systems from the very exploits they learn to develop. The course starts with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python, where students will learn how to define and use classes and methods, implement inheritance, and handle errors. This foundational knowledge is crucial for creating robust scripts for ethical hacking tasks. Next, we cover the creation and manipulation of backdoors, teaching students how to write listener scripts, send commands remotely, and encode communications for stealth. This leads into malware analysis, with lessons on creating and packaging malicious files, configuring them to run on system startup, and using tools like Regedit to modify system configurations. In addition to offensive techniques, the course also explores key defensive strategies like packet listening and Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks. Students will learn how to capture network traffic using Wireshark, create ARP poisoning attacks, and build tools for network scanning and keylogging. The inclusion of real-world case studies and practical projects provides students with a comprehensive understanding of both the attack and defense sides of cybersecurity, preparing them for certifications and advanced roles in penetration testing and ethical hacking. This course is designed for intermediate to advanced learners in cybersecurity, penetration testing, and exploit development. Knowledge of Python programming and networking concepts is beneficial but not required. The content is suitable for professionals aiming to specialize in malware analysis, exploit development, or defensive cybersecurity strategies.
University of Manchester
Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions
Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2 is our second MOOC in a two-part sequence, and looks at ‘Developing Effective Interventions’. Here we invite you to develop analytical skills and deep understanding about a complex, controversial policy problem – one with no simple, easy answers. About half a billion people on our planet still lack access to improved water supplies and about two billion do not have improved sanitation services, leading to an unknown but very large number of avoidable deaths each year from water-related diseases. Millions of dollars are spent on avoidable health care expenditures, and people – mostly women – spend many billions of hours carrying water from sources outside the home. Reducing these costs is a major global challenge for us all in the 21st century. Join us to explore the challenging and complex political, economic, social, and technical dimensions of the policy interventions that donors, national governments and water utilities use to address this challenge. This second MOOC consists of the following seven sessions: • Session 1: Introduction and how our ‘ancient instincts’ affect water policy interventions. • Session 2: Planning better policy interventions: Roles, features and examples of planning protocols. • Session 3: Water pricing, tariff design and subsidies. • Session 4: Providing information to households and communities to improve water and sanitation conditions. • Session 5: Changing the institutions that deliver water and sanitation services: Privatization in developing countries. • Session 6: Changing institutions: Lessons from the UK water privatization story. • Session 7: Changing institutions: Improving regulation of the water and sanitation sector. Your instructors for this course have worked in and studied this sector for many years. Professor Dale Whittington has worked on water and sanitation policy and planning issues for over 40 years in more than two dozen low and middle-income countries. Dr Duncan Thomas has worked in the UK and European water sectors for 15 years, focusing on overcoming barriers to technological, organizational, regulatory and policy innovations. Please watch this introductory video outlining the course: https://youtu.be/KkBmo3EKkkI
Coursera
Tailor Your Message
Strong sales solutions often stall not because the offer is wrong, but because follow-up messages don’t align with how buyers think and decide. Buyers disengage when communication feels generic, unclear, or misaligned with their priorities. This course helps close that gap by building a practical, repeatable approach to tailoring and improving follow-up communication. Tailor Your Message focuses on two essential skills. First, you’ll learn to diagnose a buyer’s communication and decision style using the DISC framework and apply those insights to write follow-up emails that are clear, relevant, and easy to evaluate. Second, you’ll learn how to assess and improve those messages using buyer feedback and a scoring rubric. The course reframes follow-ups as decision-support tools, not summaries or persuasion attempts. You’ll practice identifying buyer signals—especially for Analytical buyers—and translating them into concrete writing decisions around structure, tone, and evidence. Through Coach Dialogues, hands-on activities, and assessments, you’ll learn to tailor follow-ups, interpret buyer feedback, and make focused improvements. By the end, you’ll be able to craft aligned follow-up emails, evaluate their effectiveness objectively, and continuously refine your approach to support clearer, faster buyer decisions.
Coursera
High-Fidelity Design and User Testing with Sketch
In this immersive course, you'll investigate the world of high-fidelity UX design, focusing on refining wireframes, creating comprehensive user flows, and prototyping complex interactions using Sketch. This course is designed for UX designers aspiring to master high-fidelity design using the industry-standard Sketch app, whether they're newcomers to the field or seasoned professionals looking to sharpen their skills. You'll learn to develop responsive designs across platforms and conduct usability testing to iterate on your designs based on user feedback. You'll also explore design documentation and annotation for effective engineering handoff. This course is for UX designers wanting to learn more about high-fidelity using Sketch. By the end of the course, you'll be able to: - Refine wireframes based on feedback and leverage design systems - Create interactive prototypes with advanced features in Sketch - Develop and test responsive designs for various devices - Plan and conduct usability tests to gather valuable user insights - Iterate on designs based on user feedback and data analysis - Create detailed design documentation and annotations for seamless developer collaboration
Amazon Web Services
Introduction to Container Basics
In this course, we introduce the software container. Explore the underlying technologies that make up a container and dive into container images and container runtimes. We will also demonstrate how to containerize an application and what types of applications are good "first" candidates.
University of London
Machine Learning for All
Machine Learning, often called Artificial Intelligence or AI, is one of the most exciting areas of technology at the moment. We see daily news stories that herald new breakthroughs in facial recognition technology, self driving cars or computers that can have a conversation just like a real person. Machine Learning technology is set to revolutionise almost any area of human life and work, and so will affect all our lives, and so you are likely to want to find out more about it. Machine Learning has a reputation for being one of the most complex areas of computer science, requiring advanced mathematics and engineering skills to understand it. While it is true that working as a Machine Learning engineer does involve a lot of mathematics and programming, we believe that anyone can understand the basic concepts of Machine Learning, and given the importance of this technology, everyone should. The big AI breakthroughs sound like science fiction, but they come down to a simple idea: the use of data to train statistical algorithms. In this course you will learn to understand the basic idea of machine learning, even if you don't have any background in math or programming. Not only that, you will get hands on and use user friendly tools developed at Goldsmiths, University of London to actually do a machine learning project: training a computer to recognise images. This course is for a lot of different people. It could be a good first step into a technical career in Machine Learning, after all it is always better to start with the high level concepts before the technical details, but it is also great if your role is non-technical. You might be a manager or other non-technical role in a company that is considering using Machine Learning. You really need to understand this technology, and this course is a great place to get that understanding. Or you might just be following the news reports about AI and interested in finding out more about the hottest new technology of the moment. Whoever you are, we are looking forward to guiding you through you first machine learning project. NB this course is designed to introduce you to Machine Learning without needing any programming. That means that we don't cover the programming based machine learning tools like python and TensorFlow.
Goodwill Industries International
Client Intake, Assessments, Skill Analysis and Planning
You have begun your journey toward becoming a Career Coach or Navigator because you are passionate about helping people earn a good living and find fulfilling work. Now continue that journey in this second course in the Career Coach and Navigator Professional Certificate. This course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to recruit people, complete the intake process, assess a person’s skills, and work with the person to create an action plan. By the end of the course, you will be able to: 1. Assist people in career exploration and development. 2. Help people identify personal interests that map to career goals and career possibilities. 3. Inform people of the programs, services, and resources available to them. 4. Identify barriers to employment. 5. Assist people in planning career moves and developing essential skills to help them be successful in the workforce. 6. Guide people towards sustainable career paths. 7. Assist people who desire to pursue a career, make a career change, or work towards career advancement. To be successful in this course, no prior experience with career coaching or navigation is required; but we recommend completing the first course in the program so you can build on the knowledge and skills from that course here.
Packt
Blender 4 - Geometry Nodes for Beginners
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. Geometry Nodes for Beginners will guide you through mastering the powerful tool of Geometry Nodes for creating stunning 3D staircases. You'll learn how to manipulate grids, create complex 3D shapes, and gain essential skills in controlling geometry with precision. By the end of the course, you'll have the confidence to create customized 3D staircases, including features like handrails and support poles, all using Blender's Geometry Nodes. In the first section, you'll be introduced to the basics of Geometry Nodes and Blender's interface. You will set up the project for creating a staircase, learning the essential techniques like working with group inputs and grid meshes. Following that, you'll focus on shaping your grid into a dynamic 3D staircase by mastering deforming grid meshes and transforming 2D planes into 3D structures. The course dives deeper as you learn how to organize and optimize your nodes for better efficiency in complex designs. You'll explore creating step placement, scaling, and ensuring uniform stair widths, essential for professional-grade 3D models. As you progress, you'll implement advanced techniques for constructing realistic handrails and railing supports, including curve-line adjustments and precise placement techniques. This course is ideal for aspiring 3D artists and beginners in Blender who wish to learn the essentials of Geometry Nodes and apply them to architectural designs like staircases. It requires no prior experience with Blender but assumes basic computer literacy. The course is hands-on, offering step-by-step lessons, and is perfect for those aiming to take their Blender skills to the next level.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Evolución: Teoría sintética
En este curso te hablaremos acerca de la denominada teoría sintética de la evolución, que a mediados del siglo XX integró la teoría darwinista con diversos campos de la biología; conocerás a los principales actores involucrados en su construcción, así como sus aportaciones más importantes; identificarás las condiciones tanto científicas, como sociales y políticas que posibilitaron la integración de esta teoría y adquirirás habilidades de argumentación ligadas a la biología evolutiva desde una perspectiva histórica.
John Wiley & Sons
Corporate Finance for Dummies
Based on the best-selling book, Corporate Finance for Dummies, by Michael Taillard. Master the essentials of corporate finance with this accessible, real-world focused course. You’ll explore core concepts like financial statements, cash flow analysis, and valuation of stocks and bonds—all explained through clear, practical examples. Learn how to assess financial risk, understand portfolio theory, and navigate key processes like mergers and acquisitions. Designed for online learners, the content breaks down complex topics into digestible, actionable insights, making finance approachable for all levels. This course offers a step-by-step approach, guiding you through financial statements, key performance indicators, and financial strategies used by industry experts. By learning how to evaluate assets, liabilities, and risks, you will gain the confidence to make informed financial decisions. The use of real-life scenarios ensures you understand how to apply theory to real-world financial situations. What sets this course apart is its ability to simplify complicated financial concepts using engaging examples. With straightforward explanations, you’ll be able to master corporate finance fundamentals, even without a background in finance. Plus, you’ll get practical experience analyzing financial health and creating solid financial strategies. This course is ideal for beginners with little to no background in finance. If you’re new to the world of finance or want to deepen your understanding, this course will give you the tools to assess business performance and make well-informed financial decisions. From Corporate Finance For Dummies Copyright © 2022 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.