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Packt
Foundations of Programming and Java Essentials
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 comprehensive course, you will lay the foundation for programming and Java essentials, gaining hands-on experience in writing code, debugging, and utilizing various Java tools. By the end, you will have a solid understanding of core concepts such as variables, loops, conditionals, functions, arrays, and object-oriented programming principles. The course takes you step-by-step through the world of programming, beginning with an introduction to programming languages and the fundamentals of Java. You will explore core programming structures such as flowcharts, pseudocode, and Java's syntax, followed by practical lessons in input/output methods, debugging, and working with data types. As you progress, you'll dive into advanced topics like arrays, multidimensional arrays, bitwise operators, and algorithmic techniques. You'll also tackle common coding problems using algorithms like linear and binary search, and enhance your skills with practical LeetCode exercises. These challenges help reinforce your knowledge and allow you to refine your problem-solving techniques. By the end of the course, you will be able to write modular Java programs using essential programming concepts, debug errors, manipulate data with arrays and ArrayLists, and implement core algorithms like searching and sorting. This course is designed for beginners with no prior experience and provides a strong foundation in Java programming that will serve as the basis for further learning.
Packt
Value-Based Selling
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 comprehensive course, you’ll master the principles of value-based selling and learn how to confidently price your services based on the real value you deliver. Through practical strategies and expert guidance, you’ll understand how to shift away from traditional pricing models and build stronger, more profitable client relationships. You’ll gain the skills to consistently create value in every interaction, positioning your expertise in ways that increase visibility and trust. As you move through the course, you’ll explore key topics like shaping exceptional value, understanding market forces, and communicating your worth effectively. We also dive into the importance of innovation, authority, and leveraging intellectual property to build a strong reputation and boost your sales. With an emphasis on authentic marketing and social proof strategies, you’ll learn how to use testimonials and content to attract the ideal clients for your business. This course is perfect for professionals looking to elevate their selling techniques and embrace the value-based approach to pricing and client interaction. Whether you’re a consultant, freelancer, or business owner, you'll gain the tools to differentiate yourself in a competitive market. The course is designed for those seeking to build long-term, sustainable success by creating real value in every aspect of their business. By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently charge what you're worth, craft compelling value propositions, leverage client testimonials for marketing, and position yourself as an expert in your field.
University of Maryland, College Park
Sports Marketing and Today's College Athlete
This course is aimed at prospective college athletes and their parents, marketing and sports marketing students and professionals, and sport enthusiasts who are interested in NIL and the journey of college athletes. By the end of this course you will grasp the scope of right of publicity and why it shapes NIL rights. You’ll appreciate the journey of D1, D2, and D3 athletes, and be able to pinpoint how uniformed student athletes can be taken advantage of. You’ll also discuss strategies to monetize opportunities, and consider how the issues inherent in NIL can be taken into account as you reflect on your personal brand and online persona.
University of Michigan
AI-Powered Data Analysis: A Practical Introduction
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes our world, the ability to analyze data is quickly becoming as fundamental as reading and writing. “AI-Powered Data Analysis: A Practical Introduction” explores how AI tools like ChatGPT are revolutionizing our approach to data, making advanced analysis accessible to everyone. Whether you're a complete novice or looking to enhance your skills, you'll learn how to navigate this new terrain. You'll learn to think critically about the context of data analysis, delve into the specifics of analyzing and visualizing data using AI, and consider broader factors that support but are not directly part of data analysis. This practical approach focuses on generative AI tools, ensuring you know how to ask the right questions to avoid common mistakes. Your final activity will allow you to set yourself up for continued learning with a prepared Python environment and data sets, which you can voluntarily showcase on GitHub—a code-sharing hub. By the end of this course, you'll be adept at using AI tools to analyze data effectively and seamlessly apply these skills to future projects.
University of California, Santa Cruz
GO Programming for Everyone: Part 2
This course provides you with new opportunities to use the Go programming language. Building on the foundational knowledge introduced in the first course "GO Programming for Everyone: Part 1", this course delves deeper into the Go programming language, offering a comprehensive understanding of its more advanced features. GO is an open-source programming language developed and supported by Google. It is easy to learn and use. In the new world we live in, coding is a universally valuable skill, whether you're a scientist, artist, or a humanist. Algorithms are everywhere, and we all have to understand how they work. Designed for learners who have completed the first course or possess basic Go programming knowledge, this course will expand your skills and enhance your ability to develop efficient, scalable applications. The estimated time commitment for this course is five hours a week for five weeks. This is primarily aimed at first- and second-year undergraduates interested in engineering or science, along with high school students and professionals with an interest in programming.
Imperial College London
Applying Participatory Approaches in Public Health Settings
This course specifically explores approaches and tools and how to apply them in public health settings. Students will learn how to critically analyse the power dynamics present between multidisciplinary stakeholders and appreciate the need for reciprocity between those delivering and those receiving health care; between both those conducting and those participating in research. They will also learn how to select and evaluate different participatory approaches to apply these to public health programmes and/or research. Tools with which to do this include undertaking a stakeholder-mapping exercise and needs assessment, including a critical and reasoned narrative to justify the approach. While this course, as with the rest of the specialisation, focuses on public health and ways of involving citizens and patients in programmes and research, these concepts apply to other disciplines too. So, you don't have to be a public health specialist or work in healthcare to gain insight from this course. If you would like to learn more about the theories and core principles of participation within a public health context, we suggest taking Introduction to Participatory Approaches in Public Health. If you're planning a research project and want to learn more about participation in resaerchs, explore our course Public Involvement in Research.
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
Quadro de Política Ambiental e Social do BID
Neste curso, Quadro de Política Ambiental e Social do BID, você aprenderá os princípios fundamentais, processos, atores e fases da abordagem do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID) para promover um desenvolvimento sustentável, inclusivo e resiliente na América Latina e no Caribe. Por meio de uma jornada dinâmica por diferentes "crônicas" ou trajetórias de desenvolvimento, você explorará como os 10 padrões de desempenho ambiental e social do Framework são aplicados na prática. Este curso permitirá que você identifique riscos e oportunidades socioambientais, compreenda os principais requisitos de implementação e desenvolva habilidades para enfrentar desafios complexos. Ao final do curso, você terá ferramentas práticas para aprimorar a qualidade e a sustentabilidade dos projetos em que trabalha, seja no setor público, privado ou em organizações multilaterais. Não é necessário ter experiência prévia em temas ambientais ou sociais.
University of Michigan
Justice and Equity in Technology Policy
More than ever, technology is shaping, and being shaped by, public policy. This has an enormous impact, particularly for marginalized communities. The artificial intelligence and computer algorithms increasingly driving government and industry decisions—from the allocation of social services to hiring—are reflecting and reinforcing social biases towards women, people of color, and disabled people, among others. Global climate change is having a disproportionately negative impact on low- and middle-income countries, and on historically disadvantaged communities of color in the United States. Communities are increasingly concerned they are not benefiting from government research funding, and that the regulation of emerging technologies is inadequate. The interconnectedness of technology, policy, and equality raises crucial questions for scientists, technologists, and leaders in public policy, civil society, and industry. How can technology be built, implemented, and governed more equitably? How can the concerns of marginalized communities be integrated better into technology and related policies? How should community knowledge and concerns be integrated with technical expertise and scientific evidence in the development of public policies? This course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed. Combining real-world cases with scholarly insights, this course introduces learners to these challenges and offers tools for navigating them. You will learn about: - The landscape of technology policymaking - How technology, and related policies both reflect and reinforce social values, biases and politics - The power and limitations of technology in solving social problems - New ways to think about “experts” and “publics” - The politics of innovation policy The course is designed for people from diverse professional, advocacy, and academic backgrounds. No scientific, technical, or policy background is necessary.
Coursera
GenAI Wellness: Prompt, Evaluate, Thrive
Become the critical human checkpoint between AI wellness tools and the users you serve. In this hands-on course, you'll learn to assess AI chatbot capabilities and limitations before your first user interaction—preventing the miscommunication that frustrates users and creates liability. Master pre-written prompt templates that generate consistent, targeted wellness responses, from morning routines to stress management. Most importantly, develop systematic evaluation skills using a 3-point checklist (tone, accuracy, risk) that catches problematic outputs before they reach users—and know exactly when and how to escalate to supervisors. Through realistic role plays and coach dialogues, you'll practice the complete workflow under time pressure. Designed for wellness coordinators, peer support specialists, HR wellness staff, and anyone facilitating AI-assisted wellness support. No technical background required.
Vanderbilt University
Generative AI Primer
ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. The course will give you a primer that covers what Generative AI is, basic prompt engineering, and how you can innovate with Generative AI. You will learn the ACHIEVE framework for using Generative AI to innovate in a way that augments and amplifies human creativity and problem solving rather than supplanting people. You will learn how Generative AI is going to replace the GUI and programming as our dominant interface to computing and why you will be using it every day at work.
Packt
Advanced UI Components & Data Visualization in SwiftUI
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. Dive into the world of UI components and data visualization with SwiftUI in this comprehensive course. You’ll learn how to extend Swift’s color capabilities, work with various chart types, and implement advanced data-driven UI features. From understanding color extraction from HTML to building interactive charts, this course empowers you to create dynamic interfaces that respond to real-time data. The journey begins with creating custom color extensions and moves through building complex charting functionalities. You will explore bar charts, line charts, area charts, and even funnel charts, refining your skills with each step. Additionally, you’ll dive into practical examples such as developing an activity tracker with pie and donut charts, implementing custom views and buttons, and exploring MapKit fundamentals to add geographical interactivity to your app. This course is ideal for developers who want to deepen their understanding of SwiftUI and data visualization, and those looking to bring more interactivity and design flexibility into their apps. Whether you're looking to integrate dynamic charts or extend Swift's built-in UI components, this course offers a hands-on, practical approach. By the end of the course, you will be able to design and implement advanced UI components, create various interactive charts, manage dynamic data, and build intuitive, visually appealing applications using SwiftUI.
SAS
Data Literacy Essentials
In this course, you learn the foundational knowledge and skills you need to engage with data in meaningful ways. This is an introductory data literacy course, starting with the basics: what is data, what does it mean to be data literate, and why is it important in today’s world. You will build data skills by following the journeys of a concerned parent, a small business owner, and a public health expert, all of whom rely on data to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of this course, you will be able to see the utility and interrogate the reliability of data, discover meaning in data by looking for patterns and trends, use data insights to make informed decisions, communicate data insights to others, and understand how bias impacts your work with data. If you are new to analyzing data, this course is for you. The focus in this course is on practical understanding while avoiding complicated statistical terminology to help you feel supported and encouraged throughout the process. Anybody can be successful in this course regardless or background.
Coursera
Supplier Sourcing and RFI/RFQ/RFP Execution
This long course introduces the practical methods and routines procurement professionals use to find, qualify, and invite suppliers into a sourcing process. Learners will develop hands-on familiarity with market-research channels, trade directories, and keyword-based discovery approaches; understand the differences among the major early-stage sourcing documents (RFI, RFQ, RFP); and learn how to prepare clear solicitation templates that produce comparable supplier responses. The course is focused on building reliable supplier shortlists through structured outreach—covering how to populate and manage supplier lists, construct RFIs and RFQs using approved templates, and draft RFP/RFQ documents that drive competitive, compliant responses. Emphasis is on repeatable procedures, accurate data capture, and early-stage documentation that enable subsequent evaluation and negotiation.
Coursera
Use Generative AI as Your Thought Partner
This is a lesson from the comprehensive program, Navigating Generative AI for Leaders. In this lesson, you’ll learn how Coursera CEO, Jeff Maggioncalda, leverages generative AI models to be a more effective CEO. Jeff will discuss how he uses AI covering everything from his set up and model choices, through hands-on prompting examples. He will introduce you to three prompting strategies: Basic Query mode, Context Enhanced mode and Thought Partner mode and provide examples of how he puts them to work in his day to day as Coursera’s CEO. Jeff will explain the methods and guide you through hands-on exercises leveraging Coursera’s Playground labs, a private sandbox where you can interact with a powerful large-language model (LLM), side-by-side with Jeff. Jeff will also walk you through an exercise that enables you to use AI to anticipate how your role may evolve in the future. This exercise will help you understand what you should do to prepare for the future of work, including what skills, knowledge, and abilities you may need to acquire, as well as how to mitigate potential risks.
MedCerts
Medical Assisting Foundations
The Medical Assisting Foundations course is designed to provide beginner-level students with the essential knowledge and skills needed to excel in the medical assisting field. This introductory course lays a strong foundation in key medical concepts and practices, preparing students for practical application in healthcare settings through three lessons. In Lesson 1: Introduction to Medical Terminology, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of medical language, including prefixes, suffixes, root words, and abbreviations commonly used in healthcare. Students will also learn to communicate with medical professionals and accurately document patient information effectively. In Lesson 2: The Human Body, students explore the structure and function of the human body, including major organ systems, anatomy, and physiology. Lesson 3: Infection Control focuses on understanding the principles of infection control and the importance of maintaining a safe and sterile environment in healthcare settings. By the end of this course, students will have a strong grasp of fundamental medical concepts, preparing them for further education or entry-level roles in the medical assisting profession.
Coursera
Getting Started with Microsoft Word
In this project, you will learn to use the basic features of Microsoft Word. Using the free version of Office 365’s Microsoft Word, you will generate a document that contains formatted text, an image, and a table. MS Word, a powerful word processing application, is used for creating and updating letters, handouts, resumes and many other types of documents for business and personal use. Enhancing your communication skills by mastering basic MS Word increases your marketability in almost any profession.