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Johns Hopkins University
Foundations of Health Equity Research
Introduces students to the core principles of health equity research. Covers topics such as defining health equity, engaging community and policy stakeholders, patient-centeredness, cultural competence, and dissemination of research findings. Content will recognize different geographic, cultural, and social contexts where health inequities occur.
Lund University
Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management
This course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops. This is the aim of the Circular Economy, but it doesn’t happen on its own. It is the result of choices and strategies by suppliers, designers, businesses, policymakers and all of us as consumers. In addition to providing many cases of managing materials for sustainability, the course also teaches skills and tools for analyzing circular business models and promotes development of your own ideas to become more involved in the transition to a Circular Economy. You will learn from expert researchers and practitioners from around Europe as they explain core elements and challenges in the transition to a circular economy over the course of 5 modules: Module 1: Materials. This module explores where materials come from, and builds a rationale for why society needs more circularity. Module 2: Circular Business Models. In this module circular business models are explored in-depth and a range of ways for business to create economic and social value are discussed. Module 3: Circular Design, Innovation and Assessment. This module presents topics like functional materials and eco-design as well as methods to assess environmental impacts. Module 4: Policies and Networks. This module explores the role of governments and networks and how policies and sharing best practices can enable the circular economy. Module 5: Circular Societies. This module examines new norms, forms of engagement, social systems, and institutions, needed by the circular economy and how we, as individuals, can help society become more circular. This course is brought to you by: LUND UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS (IIIEE) EIT RAWMATERIALS VITO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS GHENT UNIVERSITY DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
University of Maryland, College Park
Core Project Management Process
Learn how to manage projects in the current context with the Core Project Management Process (CPMP) and Agile CPMP courses that update classic approaches and adapt them to today's changing project situations. This course is ideal for those who want to manage small to medium-sized projects, combining formal discipline with agile adaptability to suit real-world demands. The CPMP offers a simplified structure that makes sure each project is managed enough to produce significant value without overwhelming the team. From defining clear project scopes and agreeing on objectives, to using effective communication strategies and risk management, the CPMP addresses all important aspects. It stresses keeping quality and schedule through careful project control, making sure that projects satisfy predefined conditions before considered complete. The course also presents the Agile CPMP, a natural development that combines agile methods to improve teamwork and flexibility. It introduces new ideas such as the Perpetual Tasklist for continuous project requirements and creative All-In and Part-Time Sprints that suit different team schedules. If you want to use the latest design thinking in your projects, you will find our segment on Lean Scope Project Management (LSPM) very useful. LSPM turns creative ideas into doable projects by designing, prototyping, and implementing them. It uses ideas from human-centered design, lean startup principles, and agile project management. This course will teach participants how to: 1. Use the CPMP to handle small project challenges smoothly. 2. Apply agile practices to improve project speed and adaptability. 3. Incorporate design thinking to stimulate innovation and creativity. 4. Form and lead high-performing teams quickly through efficient team-building stages. 5. Manage stakeholder expectations and product changes continuously. This course is suitable for project managers, team leaders, and anyone who works on project execution and wants to improve their skills and deliver successful project results in any organizational setting. Whether handling small projects or big ones, these methods offer the tools to attain efficiency and excellence. Join us to enhance your project management skills and elevate your team's performance to a higher level!
Coursera
Generate Visuals for A/B Testing Success
This course introduces practical, hands-on skills for creating and optimizing campaign visuals using generative AI. You’ll learn how to write effective prompts, refine outputs for brand consistency, and prepare assets for A/B testing. Through guided lessons, you’ll generate image variations, compress them for performance, and upload them to a CMS. By the end, you’ll have a clear, repeatable workflow for producing campaign-ready visuals that capture attention and deliver results.
University of California, Irvine
TOEFL Test-Taking Strategies
This course prepares non-native English speakers to take the TOEFL iBT exam by providing helpful tips and proven techniques for successfully completing the reading, listening, speaking, and writing sections of the iBT. In this course, you will learn a variety of strategies, such as note-taking, using templates, and analyzing speech patterns, and you will review many sample questions and responses.
American Psychological Association
Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness
Discover scientifically validated pathways to enhance your happiness and psychological well-being in this course, designed to help you pursue a meaningful and satisfying life. Some of these pathways, like developing meaningful friendships, may be obvious to you, while others, such as focusing on gratitude, mindfully meditating, helping people in need, and viewing others with unconditional positive regard, may be less obvious. Upon completion of this course, in addition to having a clear plan for improving your happiness and life satisfaction, you will have a deeper understanding of happiness, insight into how you can find meaning in your life, an awareness of the role of positive emotions in different cultures, and an appreciation of how public policies can improve or worsen the happiness of a country as a whole. Overall, regardless of who you are, the material in this course can put you on a path to a happier, more fulfilling life.
Johns Hopkins University
Modeling Data in the Tidyverse
Developing insights about your organization, business, or research project depends on effective modeling and analysis of the data you collect. Building effective models requires understanding the different types of questions you can ask and how to map those questions to your data. Different modeling approaches can be chosen to detect interesting patterns in the data and identify hidden relationships. This course covers the types of questions you can ask of data and the various modeling approaches that you can apply. Topics covered include hypothesis testing, linear regression, nonlinear modeling, and machine learning. With this collection of tools at your disposal, as well as the techniques learned in the other courses in this specialization, you will be able to make key discoveries from your data for improving decision-making throughout your organization. In this specialization we assume familiarity with the R programming language. If you are not yet familiar with R, we suggest you first complete R Programming before returning to complete this course.
Pearson
CCNP and CCIE Security Core SCOR 350-701(Exam Blueprint 1.1)
The CCNP and CCIE Security Core SCOR 350-701 video course is for anyone interested in learning about key Cisco security as well as anyone studying for the CCNP and CCIE Security exam. Best-selling author and speaker Omar Santos will walk you through the vast array of security topics using dynamic presentations, demos, and test-taking techniques to help you understand security threats, preventative measures, and mitigation methods coalesce. This complete video course begins with an introduction to the new Cisco CCNP Security and CCIE Security certifications before covering the main topics including Network security; Cloud security; Content security; Endpoint protection and detection; Secure network access; and Visibility and enforcement.
Google Cloud
Model Armor: Securing AI Deployments
This course reviews the essential security features of Model Armor and equips you to work with the service. You’ll learn about the security risks associated with LLMs and how Model Armor protects your AI applications.
Duke University
Web Scraping with Python
In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to analyze complex HTML structures and identify the relevant data to be extracted using Scrapy and XPath. You will apply the concepts of web scraping, including setting up a Scrapy project, generating spiders, and using XPath queries to extract data from websites that do not provide an API. Additionally, you will evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of your scraping code, considering factors such as changing webpage structures, scalability, and coding defensively to ensure robustness. The course includes hands-on labs where you will create a spider and parse complex HTML, allowing you to practice and reinforce the concepts learned.
Coursera
Improving Math Engagement with Prodigy
By the end of this project, you will have discovered an excellent math website that has been proven to increase student engagement and even improve their math skills. Prodigy is a free math website where students enjoy learning math as they explore and work through a fantasy world complete with epic questions and in-game rewards. While students are enjoying the game, teachers are gathering valuable data that shows what math skills their students already have and where they need to improve. As a teacher, you can assign specific questions and content to your students so that the skills they practice while playing the game are aligned to the skills you are focusing on in class. Watch student engagement and skill increase in leaps and bounds as you use Prodigy in your classroom or at home. *You will need a free Prodigy account for this project.
Tally Education and Distribution Services Private Limited
Financial Business Accounting and MIS Reports
This course is for those interested in starting a career in Financial Business Accounting. The course builds on the knowledge and skills gained in this professional certificate to dive deeper into concepts related to Business and MIS Reports. You will apply those concepts in scenarios using the TallyPrime software.The course includes several real-life business scenarios, charts, images, observations, solved illustrations, and practice scenarios on TallyPrime. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Gain proficiency in Bills Payable and Receivable - Understand and account the Advanced Banking Transactions - Learn to manage Cost and Profit Centres - Record the Accounting Vouchers using Foreign Currency - Manage the Interest Calculation, and the production of Essential Financial Statements - Understand the fundamentals of Goods and Services Tax (GST)
ESSEC Business School
Innovation publique et pensée design, l'innovation sociale au service des territoires
Les collectivités territoriales et les services de l'Etat sont confrontés à de multiples enjeux : crise des finances publiques, augmentation des dépenses sociales, défiance croissante des administrés, concurrence des solutions proposées par des communautés numériques très agiles. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que des solutions existent pour faire mieux avec moins ! L'innovation publique, c'est possible grâce aux apports de ce que l'on appelle la pensée design, qui permet de repenser le service offert à l'usager. Ce MOOC a été réalisé en partenariat avec le Conseil départemental du Val d'Oise, pionnier dans la mise en oeuvre de ces approches. Son originalité ? Nous vous proposons une expérience d’apprentissage très riche basée à la fois sur l'expertise de spécialistes du sujet et sur l'expérience de nombreux acteurs publics de terrain, qui mettent en œuvre cette approche et apportent leur témoignage dans les différents modules. Notre objectif ? Vous donner les compétences pour coordonner un projet d'innovation publique s’appuyant sur une approche design de service, quels que soient le domaine et le contexte dans lesquels vous travaillez. Bienvenue dans ce MOOC ! Thierry Sibieude et l'équipe pédagogique
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Estrategia de Identidad de una Marca
El curso de Estrategia de Identidad de una Marca se centra en el proceso dual de construcción de identidad y desarrollo de estrategia de marca.Comenzando con la exploración del concepto de identidad, el curso te guiará a través de la introspección de la marca y la identificación de sus valores fundamentales y propuesta única. El objetivo es equiparte con las habilidades para crear estrategias de marca coherentes y auténticas que resuenen con el público y sostengan la visión de la empresa antes de sumergirse en el diseño visual y la comunicación de la marca.
Duke University
Forming Christ-Shaped Leaders
Welcome to Forming Christ-Shaped Leaders. This course is part of the Rediscovering the Heart of Methodism series. Through this series, we hope you will experience a deeper grounding in the distinctive elements of Methodism at its best, and a renewed capacity for hopeful, imaginative participation in the mission of God. This course addresses two closely related questions: what does it mean to be a Christ-shaped leader, and how do we become that kind of leader? To develop our answers, we’ll mine the riches of Wesleyan wisdom, Mary’s witness, and Jesus’s teachings. We’ll also consider how calling and trauma inform Christian leadership. These four weeks will provide frameworks to guide our ongoing formation as Christ-shaped leaders who, in turn, encourage that same growth in others. If you are a pastor or ministry professional in need of Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits for your professional development, CEU credits are available for this course. Upon successful completion of this course, you can provide your Coursera certificate and the course description to your employer for recognition of earning 0.5 CEUs. Contact divinityonline@duke.edu with any questions regarding CEUs for this course. Each of the 5 courses in the Rediscovering the Heart of Methodism specialization is worth 0.5 CEUs, for a total of 2.5 CEUs for completing all of the courses.
Dartmouth College
The Basics of Libertarian Free Will
In this course, we will dismantle arguments against free will from a philosophical perspective. Module one of the course will help you discover the differences between freedom from constraint and freedom within constraint. It will also help you to define truth and reality as they relate to our perceptions. The second module will explore concepts such as causation and criterial causations. You will be able to define consciousness as it relates to our mental and physical worlds. The third and the final module of this course will explore the core idea behind free will and analyze why arguments for or against free will are categorized in terms of their compatibility with determinism. You will also be able to compare the two types of libertarian free will.