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Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP)
Benefits: Health, Wellness, Work & Lifestyle
This course is for anyone who wants to transition into a benefit focused role within an HR department. You will gain a deeper level of exposure to the details of benefit offerings. You’ll start by evaluating critical concepts related to health benefits, along with plan types and structures. Then, you’ll learn about spending accounts related to health and dependent care. In the last two modules, you’ll explore work- and lifestyle-related benefits like time-off strategies. Finally, you’ll use your new knowledge to create an employee communication strategy for Blue Space Tech Performance Company's employees.
Packt
Kanban for Software Project Management
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 comprehensive course introduces you to Kanban for software project management, starting with an overview of Kanban and the Kanban Board. - You'll learn to identify inefficiencies, such as underutilization of resources and unequal-sized tasks, and optimize your processes for peak team efficiency. - Essential Kanban practices like defining "done," daily standups, and specifying rules are covered to ensure team alignment and productivity. - The course also integrates key Agile concepts, including product backlogs, themes, epics, stories, and Agile estimation techniques such as T-Shirt sizing, Fibonacci, and planning poker. - You'll explore burndown charts, minimum viable products, and team velocity, equipping you to manage and track project progress effectively. Designed for project managers, team leaders, and developers with basic software development knowledge, this course blends theory with practical application to help you implement Kanban and Agile practices. By the end, you'll create effective workflows and project plans using these methodologies.
Coursera
Plan Projects Better: Tools, Time, and Agile Estimation
This long course focuses on task-level design, estimation, and the fundamental tooling conventions that make planning achievable in day-to-day delivery. You will master task anatomy (title, description, assignee, due date, labels, and dependencies) and practical field templates that ensure clarity across teams. The course introduces story points and collaborative estimation techniques and demonstrates how to map story-point forecasting to team velocity. Hands-on work uses Asana timeline/Gantt views to sequence and export compact schedules and to create reproducible timeline artifacts. The emphasis is on repeatable, shareable artifacts: field templates, trimmed timelines, and a brief velocity snapshot for stakeholder conversations. You will practice short exercises that connect estimation choices to planning outcomes.
Google Cloud
Google Threat Intelligence - 日本語版
Google Threat Intelligence は脅威をこれまで以上に可視化し、世界中のセキュリティ チームにタイムリーで詳細な脅威インテリジェンスを提供します。このコースでは、Google Threat Intelligence のさまざまな機能と、組織がこのプロダクトを活用して脅威によるリスクを未然に軽減する一般的な方法について説明します。
Curtis Institute of Music
Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
Our relationship to Beethoven is a deep and paradoxical one. For many musicians, he represents a kind of holy grail: His music has an intensity, rigor, and profundity which keep us in its thrall, and it is perhaps unequalled in the interpretive, technical, and even spiritual challenges it poses to performers. At the same time, Beethoven’s music is casually familiar to millions of people who do not attend concerts or consider themselves musically inclined. Two hundred years after his death, he is everywhere in the culture, yet still represents its summit. This course takes an inside-out look at the 32 piano sonatas from the point of view of a performer. Each lecture will focus on one sonata and an aspect of Beethoven’s music exemplified by it. (These might include: the relationship between Beethoven the pianist and Beethoven the composer; the critical role improvisation plays in his highly structured music; his mixing of extremely refined music with rougher elements; and the often surprising ways in which the events of his life influenced his compositional process and the character of the music he was writing.) The course will feature some analysis and historical background, but its perspective is that of a player, not a musicologist. Its main aim is to explore and demystify the work of the performer, even while embracing the eternal mystery of Beethoven’s music itself. This season's Curtis courses are sponsored by Linda Richardson in loving memory of her husband, Dr. Paul Richardson. The Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation supports Curtis's lifelong learning initiatives.
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Electric Vehicles and Mobility
The purpose of Electric Vehicles and Mobility is to help you, whatever your profile, your training or your country, find your own answers to questions such as: - Will electric vehicles be the last to be allowed in megalopolises in the 21st century? - Does the environmental gain from vehicle electrification justify heavy investment in charging infrastructure? - Are electric vehicles only for wealthy people in developed countries? This course will allow you to acquire elements from engineering science, sociology, environmental science, political science, economics, management science, in order to evaluate, analyze and implement the diffusion of electric vehicles where their use is relevant. This MOOC is the English version of Mobilités et véhicules électriques; in the lecture videos, the teachers speak in French, nevertheless their presentation is in English and English subtitles are available. Groupe Renault and ParisTech schools have been working together for almost 15 years on topics related to sustainable mobility. Together, they created two Master programs (Transport and Sustainable Development in 2004, Mobility and Electric Vehicles in 2010) and the Sustainable Mobility Institute Renault-ParisTech in 2009, to support ongoing changes. Electric Vehicles and Mobility is the result of this shared history and was developed from a course delivered within the Master Mobility and Electric Vehicles, led by Arts et Métiers ParisTech in partnership with Ensta ParisTech, Mines ParisTech and École des Ponts ParisTech.
LearnQuest
Introduction to Java as a Second Language
This course is meant to be an introduction to Java as a second language, if you are familiar with any computer programming language. It could be shell scripting, knowledge of older Java versions, JavaScript, etc. This course will allow you to quickly pick up the Java programming language. You will learn Java Object Orientation, and see the parallels with other programming paradigms. This is course 1 of a 3 course Specialization titled Java as a Second Language. It assumes that you know some programming and want to transfer that knowledge into learning Java. Lab exercises will be performed using your system and Java installation. The instructor will guide you through setting up and configuring your environment and working through the labs. Java can be installed on just about any type of computer, but the instructor will demonstrate the installation on a Windows system.
Google Cloud
Pengantar Analisis Data di Google Cloud
Dalam kursus tingkat pemula ini, Anda akan mempelajari alur kerja Analisis Data di Google Cloud dan alat yang dapat Anda gunakan untuk mengeksplorasi, menganalisis, dan memvisualisasikan data, serta membagikan temuan Anda dengan para pemangku kepentingan. Dengan menggunakan studi kasus serta lab interaktif, materi, dan kuis/demo, kursus ini akan mendemonstrasikan cara menghasilkan data bersih hingga visualisasi dan dasbor yang menghasilkan dampak dari set data mentah. Entah Anda sudah bekerja dengan data dan ingin mempelajari cara sukses di Google Cloud, atau ingin mengembangkan karier Anda, kursus ini akan membantu Anda memulai. Hampir semua orang yang melakukan atau menggunakan analisis data dalam pekerjaan mereka dapat mengambil manfaat dari kursus ini.
University of Michigan
Affirmative Action in Higher Education Teach-Out
With the recent U.S. Supreme Court ban of the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions, higher education institutions across the United States are grappling with what this means for their campuses and communities, especially those that must now alter their current admissions practices to comply with the ruling. This nationwide ban on affirmative action in college admissions will likely have long-lasting effects on not only the diversity of U.S. college campuses, but the diversity of professions and economic mobility. In this Teach-Out you’ll learn the historical context of affirmative action and the role it has had in college admissions, explore cases in states where affirmative action was already banned prior to the 2023 ruling, and discuss the need for colleges and community members to be a part of building equitable educational opportunities for everyone. This Teach-Out will feature contributors representing diverse disciplines and experiences in the broader higher education community. This Teach-Out will answer: - What is affirmative action and what is its relations to college admissions? - How does this U.S. Supreme Court ruling influence college admissions across the country? - In the absence of race-based admissions, how can higher education institutions promote diversity, equity, and inclusion on their campuses, and what challenges they may face in doing so? - What are the potential socioeconomic ripple effects of this ruling? - How can faculty, staff, students, and community members support equitable educational opportunities for all? All contents of this Teach-Out are licensed as CC BY-SA with the exception of the course image.
Coursera
Program Procurement Planning with ClickUp
By the end of this guided project, you will be fluent in creating Program Procurement Planning artefacts for the Planning Phase for diverse programs. You will utilise a logical diagramming plan in an agile environment to develop the solution. This will enable you to identify and classify the required components for procurement planning. Furthermore, it will help develop a structural model for learning about the field of Program Management. If you are interested in building up the knowledge leading to this guided project, the following is the link to: [ Developing Programme Management Blueprint with ClickUp] https://www.coursera.org/projects/program-blueprint [Advanced Programme Planning Phases Framework in ClickUp] https://www.coursera.org/projects/program-advanced-planning This Guided Project is essential for individuals wanting to learn about the field, or looking to transition into working in Program Management. This guided project is designed to engage and harness your visionary and exploratory abilities. You will use proven models in an agile environment with ClickUp to engage in a hands-on learning experience.
University of Colorado System
Data Analysis and Representation, Selection and Iteration
This course is the second course in the specialization exploring both computational thinking and beginning C programming. Rather than trying to define computational thinking, we’ll just say it’s a problem-solving process that includes lots of different components. Most people have a better understanding of what beginning C programming means! This course assumes you have the prerequisite knowledge from the previous course in the specialization. You should make sure you have that knowledge, either by taking that previous course or from personal experience, before tackling this course. The required prerequisite knowledge is listed below. Prerequisite computational thinking knowledge: Algorithms and procedures, data collection Prerequisite C knowledge: Data types, variables, constants, and STEM computations Throughout this course you'll learn about data analysis and data representation, which are computational thinking techniques that help us understand what sets of data have to tell us. For the programming topics, you'll continue building on your C knowledge by implementing selection, which lets us decide which code to execute, and iteration (or looping), which lets us repeat chunks of code multiple times. Module 1: Learn about some common statistics we can calculate as we analyze sets of data Module 2: Discover how we make decisions in our code Module 3: Explore the various ways we can represent sets of data Module 4: Use iteration (looping) to repeat actions in your code
Pearson
Learn Reflection with Java
This course provides a practical introduction to Java Reflection, aimed at developers seeking to enhance their programming skills. Java Reflection enables inspection and manipulation of classes, interfaces, fields, and methods at runtime, even without prior knowledge of their names at compile time. This capability is important for writing dynamic and generic code, developing adaptable frameworks, and improving testing and debugging processes. The course begins with the basics of reflection and progresses to advanced topics such as sealed classes, records, and array manipulation. It also covers MethodHandle and VarHandle, offering a thorough overview of modern reflection techniques. Each lesson includes practical exercises and demonstrations to reinforce learning. By the end of the course, participants will understand how to use reflection to implement dynamic solutions, assess its impact on Java performance and correctness, and determine appropriate use cases for reflection in their projects.
Kennesaw State University
How to Revitalize Mature Products - Jagdish Sheth
This course explores strategic approaches for breathing new life into aging or stagnant products. Professor Jagdish Sheth unpacks the reasons why mature products are often neglected—despite their continued relevance—and presents actionable methods for revitalizing them through repositioning, innovation, and re-segmentation. Learners will analyze frameworks like the Product Matrix, which maps cash flow and company growth to classify product stages, and examine how leading companies have reignited interest in mature categories by identifying new use cases, customer segments, and cultural moments. Topics include product life cycle, the role of intermediaries, consumer research, unintended usage, and the concept of the “heavy half” in targeting loyal users. Drawing on global case studies such as Starbucks and McDonald’s, this course equips learners with the tools to rethink maturity as an opportunity for profitable reinvention—not decline.
EDUCBA
Splunk Indexing & Data Management
Learners will analyze, configure, and manage Splunk’s data indexing, access control, authentication, and deployment frameworks through real-world examples and practical configuration exercises. This comprehensive course equips participants with the expertise to implement efficient indexing strategies, monitor system health, secure user access, and optimize data flow using Splunk forwarders and role-based policies. Throughout the program, learners will gain hands-on experience in configuring Splunk indexes, establishing retention policies, performing backups and restorations, and deploying forwarders for scalable data ingestion. The course also covers essential enterprise security concepts, including LDAP integration, authentication methods, and role inheritance, ensuring learners can manage Splunk environments securely and efficiently. By completing this course, participants will be able to design, deploy, and maintain Splunk environments that deliver reliable data indexing, secure access, and seamless performance across distributed systems. With its modular design, step-by-step demonstrations, and real-world administrative insights, this course is ideal for IT professionals, system administrators, and data engineers looking to master Splunk administration and data management best practices.
Starweaver
Hospitality Luxury Brand Management
Explore the world of luxury hospitality branding and learn how to manage, maintain, and innovate within this exclusive industry. This course identifies the unique challenges, trends, and opportunities of luxury brand management in the 21st century. In this course, you will develop expertise in luxury hospitality brand management through a comprehensive journey from foundational principles to cutting-edge innovations. You'll explore market dynamics, customer experiences, and the role of digital transformation. Discover how to redefine luxury for the modern era and excel in managing luxury brands. This course is suitable for individuals who are, 1-Aspiring hospitality professionals seeking specialization in luxury brand management. 2-Junior managers and supervisors in luxury hospitality establishments. 3-Marketing and brand executives focusing on luxury hospitality services. Learners should have, 1-Basic understanding of the hospitality industry. 2-Familiarity with marketing concepts. 3-Awareness of luxury brands and their significance in the hospitality sector.
Michigan State University
Reign of Pain
Welcome to the comprehensive course on understanding and addressing chronic pain and associated conditions. This course spans seven modules, each designed to provide valuable insights and practical knowledge. From exploring the brain's role in pain perception to identifying the emotional and psychological factors at play, we delve deep into the mind-body connection. You'll learn to differentiate between structural and neural circuit-related pain, and discover emerging therapies like Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET). We also explore the application of this model to various conditions beyond pain. Along the way, you'll gain access to resources to further your understanding and help those dealing with chronic conditions. This course aims to empower you with knowledge and compassion, offering hope to individuals living with chronic pain and associated challenges.