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Microsoft
Introduction to Networking and Cloud Computing
This course forms part of a series of courses that offers a good starting point for a career in cybersecurity. It will help you gain knowledge and skills related to networking and cloud computing and get you one step closer to the Microsoft Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate, which requires no degree or prior experience. After completing this course you’ll be able to: • Identify the main concepts of networking • Explain common network infrastructure and monitoring • Describe network security components, approaches, and mitigation • Define and explain key concepts of the cloud computing environment, virtual machines, and cloud services. This is also a great way to prepare for the Microsoft SC-900 exam. By passing the SC-900 exam, you’ll earn the Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Certification.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Fundamentals of Materials Science
Materials are the physical foundations for the development of science and technology. The human civilizations are historically designated by the evolution of materials, such as the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Nowadays, materials science and technology support most of the industrial sectors, including aerospace, telecommunications, transportation, architecture, infrastructure and so on. Fundamentals of Materials Science is a core module for undergraduates majored in materials science and engineering. This English course will be taught by Prof. Guo Qiang, Prof. Reddy and Prof. Liu Jing from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. An integrated approach of combining metallic, ceramic and polymeric materials will be adopted in this course, for the attendants to attain a deep understanding on the correlation of composition, microstructure, processing and properties in materials science. Let’s gather in this course and explore the wonderland of materials together.
Johns Hopkins University
Surveillance Systems: Analysis, Dissemination, and Special Systems
In this course, we'll build on the previous lessons in this specialization to focus on some very specific skills related to public health surveillance. We'll learn how to get the most out of surveillance data analysis, focusing specifically on interpreting time trend data to detect temporal aberrations as well as person, place, and time in the context of surveillance data. We'll also explore strategies for the presentation of surveillance data and some of the complex legal elements that affect its use. We'll then turn our attention to surveillance of non-communicable chronic diseases and how the data can be used to support prevention efforts. Finally, we'll explore special surveillance systems, such as syndromic surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, and event-related surveillance. This course is designed for public health practitioners with a focus on those working on health surveillance in municipal, regional, state, provincial, or even national public health agencies. We really think that this course will help those with an interest in health surveillance to see which approaches are used in actual practice of public health.
University of Minnesota
IS/IT Governance
Firms make significant investments in IT. In the IS/IT Governance course we will discuss how to govern IT to make sure that the IT investments contribute to organizational goals and strategies. Firms need to formally evaluate significant IT investments. IT investments are also risky, so firms need to consider the risk associated with the investments to appropriately evaluate the investment. We will discuss how to evaluate IT investments. Firms usually make multiple IT investments in a given year. In this course we will discuss how to evaluate a portfolio of IT investments. Firms need a mechanism to charge users for the IT investments made to encourage prudent consumption of IT resources. We will discuss different mechanisms for charging for IT that incents users to spend IT dollars wisely. Finally, IT investments are made to generate value for the firm. This requires that employees actually use the new IT systems that is developed. Thus, in the IS/IT Governance course we will discuss strategies to make sure that users use the new system so that the firm derives value from its IT investments.
Coursera
Crea tus publicaciones para RRSS con Canva
En este curso basado en un proyecto y de 1,5 horas de duración, aprenderás a crear tus publicaciones para redes sociales con Canva, personalizando el diseño para definir cada uno de los atributos que desees presentar a quienes visualicen tus publicaciones. También aprenderás a modificar un template, con el fin de que en adelante puedas utilizar distintos templates y comprender a cabalidad sus partes, pudiendo personalizarlo a tu disposición. Es un curso de bases, por lo cual no necesitas tener conocimientos previos de Canva.
Packt
Authentication, E-Commerce Features & Order 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 course offers a comprehensive guide to building secure, interactive e-commerce platforms using .NET Core. You will learn how to implement authentication systems, such as user registration and role-based access control, ensuring secure customer and company interactions. By the end, you'll also gain proficiency in adding dynamic shopping cart features, order confirmation processes, and efficient order management systems. The course begins with foundational topics such as building and designing the homepage of an e-commerce site, and the critical steps of implementing product details pages. You will dive deep into scaffolding Identity in .NET Core and configuring user authentication, including advanced topics such as user role creation, extending user properties, and troubleshooting common UI bugs. As the course progresses, you'll learn to build essential features such as a shopping cart, order management systems, and payment integrations using Stripe. You will develop practical skills by working on projects involving shopping cart updates, order summary creation, and order status management. Each lesson walks you through critical technical steps to ensure a seamless user experience and a robust back-end. Designed for both newcomers and those familiar with .NET Core, this course provides step-by-step guidance to integrate and refine e-commerce features. The course is ideal for developers who wish to specialize in e-commerce site management, order processing, and secure user authentication using modern frameworks.
University of Michigan
Sleep: Neurobiology, Medicine, and Society
The objective of this course is to give students the most up-to-date information on the biological, personal, and societal relevance of sleep. Personal relevance is emphasized by the fact that the single best predictor of daytime performance is the quality of the previous night's sleep. The brain actively generates sleep, and the first section of the course is an overview of the neurobiological basis of sleep control. The course provides cellular-level understanding of how sleep deprivation, jet lag, and substances such as alcohol, ,caffeine, and nicotine alter sleep and wakefulness. The second section of the course covers sleep-dependent changes in physiology and sleep disorders medicine. Particular emphasis will be placed on disorders of excessive sleepiness, insomnia, and sleep-dependent changes in autonomic control. Chronic sleep deprivation impairs immune function and may promote obesity. Deaths due to all causes are most frequent between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m., and this second section of the class highlights the relevance of sleep for preventive medicine. The societal relevance of sleep will be considered in the final section of the class. In an increasingly complex and technologically oriented society, operator-error by one individual can have a disastrous negative impact on public health and safety. Fatigue-related performance decrements are known to have contributed as causal factors to nuclear power plant failures, transportation disasters, and medical errors.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Interest Rate Models
This course gives you an easy introduction to interest rates and related contracts. These include the LIBOR, bonds, forward rate agreements, swaps, interest rate futures, caps, floors, and swaptions. We will learn how to apply the basic tools duration and convexity for managing the interest rate risk of a bond portfolio. We will gain practice in estimating the term structure from market data. We will learn the basic facts from stochastic calculus that will enable you to engineer a large variety of stochastic interest rate models. In this context, we will also review the arbitrage pricing theorem that provides the foundation for pricing financial derivatives. We will also cover the industry standard Black and Bachelier formulas for pricing caps, floors, and swaptions. At the end of this course you will know how to calibrate an interest rate model to market data and how to price interest rate derivatives.
Packt
Advanced Modeling Techniques and Detailed Prop Creation
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. In this advanced 3D modeling course, you will explore sophisticated techniques to create detailed props and structures using Blender and Unreal Engine 5. Starting with the construction of complex architectural features like roofs, supports, and walkways, you will learn how to apply realistic materials and ensure your models are structurally sound. Through carefully designed lessons, you will master the creation of sloping roof supports, intricate woodwork, and tiled surfaces, bringing a medieval windmill to life with stunning realism. This course is designed to help you push your modeling skills to new heights. As you progress, you will work on refining and troubleshooting meshes, improving efficiency with UV mapping, and creating realistic architectural elements like doors, windows, and small extensions. The course delves deep into creating textures that bring out the authenticity of medieval buildings. You will also gain hands-on experience with Blender's powerful tools, such as booleans and SVGs, to add intricate details to your model, including metal signs and supporting chains. Each lesson builds on the previous one, ensuring a smooth transition from basic structure to advanced detailing. By the end of the course, you’ll have developed a fully modeled medieval windmill complete with a realistic waterwheel, wooden railings, and balconies. Whether you're looking to enhance your portfolio or gain the skills necessary for game development, this course offers the essential knowledge needed to create highly detailed, game-ready props in Blender and Unreal Engine 5. This course is designed for intermediate to advanced 3D modelers, game designers, and artists looking to refine their skills in creating detailed props. Familiarity with Blender basics and Unreal Engine 5 is recommended.
University of California San Diego
Finding Mutations in DNA and Proteins (Bioinformatics VI)
In previous courses in the Specialization, we have discussed how to sequence and compare genomes. This course will cover advanced topics in finding mutations lurking within DNA and proteins. In the first half of the course, we would like to ask how an individual's genome differs from the "reference genome" of the species. Our goal is to take small fragments of DNA from the individual and "map" them to the reference genome. We will see that the combinatorial pattern matching algorithms solving this problem are elegant and extremely efficient, requiring a surprisingly small amount of runtime and memory. In the second half of the course, we will learn how to identify the function of a protein even if it has been bombarded by so many mutations compared to similar proteins with known functions that it has become barely recognizable. This is the case, for example, in HIV studies, since the virus often mutates so quickly that researchers can struggle to study it. The approach we will use is based on a powerful machine learning tool called a hidden Markov model. Finally, you will learn how to apply popular bioinformatics software tools applying hidden Markov models to compare a protein against a related family of proteins.
École Polytechnique
Vers l'infiniment petit - Voyages de l'infiniment grand à l'infiniment petit
Partez à la découverte de l'infiniment petit, en compagnie de physiciens et de physiciennes qui vont vous faire découvrir les secrets de la matière quand on l'étudie aux distances les plus courtes, aux énergies les plus élevées. Vous vous initierez aux progrès les plus récents de la recherche en physique nucléaire et de la physique des particules, et vous découvrirez les principes des accélérateurs et des détecteurs avec lesquels on a pu étudier la matière à ces échelles, pour arriver jusqu'à la découverte du boson de Higgs en 2012 auprès du collisionneur de particules du CERN, le LHC. Ce cours en français fait partie du MOOC "Voyages de l'infiniment grand à l'infiniment petit", conçus par des physiciens et des physiciennes du Labex P2IO (Physique des 2 Infinis et des Origines) regroupant des laboratoires de physique de l'infiniment grand et de l'infiniment petit situés à Orsay et Saclay. Les différents parcours de ce MOOC vous montreront les connaissances et les énigmes de l'infiniment grand et de l'infiniment petit, les relations que ces deux infinis entretiennent, et les liens de ces découvertes avec la société : https://www.coursera.org/learn/physique-2-infinis-infiniment-petit https://www.coursera.org/learn/physique-2-infinis-infiniment-grand https://www.coursera.org/learn/physique-2-infinis-liens https://www.coursera.org/learn/physique-2-infinis-et-nous Le MOOC "Voyages de l'infiniment grand à l'infiniment petit" a été conçu avec le soutien financier du Labex P2IO (Physique des 2 Infinis et des Origines) présenté sur www.labex-p2io.fr
Alex Genadinik
Personal Finance, Wealth Management, And Investing With AI
Learn how real inflation affects your wealth, and discover which assets truly preserve and grow your wealth. Are you saving, investing, or running a business, but not sure how inflation is quietly impacting your financial future? In this course, you'll gain a clear and practical understanding of real inflation, not just the official numbers, but what everyday people and businesses actually experience. From rising housing costs to shrinking purchasing power, we uncover how inflation affects your personal and business finances in the real world. Then, we dive into the major asset classes: stocks, real estate, crypto, precious metals, art, and more. And analyze how each one performs against inflation. Which assets actually protect your wealth? Which ones lose value over time? This course gives you the tools to think critically and make smarter decisions. What You’ll Learn: The difference between official CPI and real-world inflation How inflation affects personal savings, retirement, and business pricing Historical performance of major asset classes adjusted for inflation Which assets offer true protection — and which are overhyped How to build a long-term strategy for inflation-resilient wealth This course is designed for: Individuals who want to protect their savings and purchasing power Entrepreneurs and business owners looking to price products effectively Anyone curious about how inflation really works and how to beat it Whether you're just starting to manage your assets or you're a business leader thinking about long-term value, this course gives you practical financial insights that will matter for decades to come.
Coursera
Fake News Detection with Machine Learning
In this hands-on project, we will train a Bidirectional Neural Network and LSTM based deep learning model to detect fake news from a given news corpus. This project could be practically used by any media company to automatically predict whether the circulating news is fake or not. The process could be done automatically without having humans manually review thousands of news related articles. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
Coursera
Financial Statements, Ratios, and Month-End Close Essentials
Transform raw financial data into meaningful insights by building essential accounting and analytical skills. You'll develop the ability to compile financial statements, apply double-entry bookkeeping principles, and calculate key performance metrics that drive business decisions. Working with QuickBooks and Excel, you'll gain hands-on experience preparing income statements, managing month-end closing procedures, and analyzing financial ratios. This integrated approach combines fundamental accounting principles with practical spreadsheet skills and financial analysis techniques. You'll learn to categorize general ledger accounts, create reconciliation schedules, and compute metrics like current ratio and days-sales-outstanding. By project completion, you'll demonstrate the core competencies expected of accounting assistants in today's data-driven business environment. Perfect for those seeking entry-level accounting roles or business professionals who need to understand financial statements and performance measurement.
EDUCBA
Apply UI/UX Design with Figma for Modern Interfaces
Learners will be able to apply core UI/UX design principles, create visually engaging interfaces, build interactive prototypes, and design responsive layouts using Figma. This course guides learners step by step from foundational design concepts to advanced, real-world UI design workflows. Throughout the course, learners will gain hands-on experience with Figma’s essential tools, including frames, visual elements, images, symbols, and prototypes. They will design social media creatives, website layouts, and responsive pages while learning how to structure content, establish visual hierarchy, and improve usability. The course also emphasizes modern design practices such as reusability, scalability, and collaboration using Figma Community resources. What makes this course unique is its practical, design-first approach that connects theory directly to application. Instead of focusing only on tools, learners understand why design decisions matter and how to apply them effectively across platforms and screen sizes. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped with job-ready UI/UX design skills, a strong understanding of responsive and interactive design, and the confidence to create professional-quality interfaces using Figma.
Logical Operations
Excel: Modeling with Power Pivot and Reporting Insights
To round out your data-analysis skills in Excel, you'll use Power Pivot to create data models and perform advanced analysis and visualization tasks. You'll also plan and then create a report for presenting data-driven findings. This is the fifth and final course in a multi-course Specialization. All of the courses in this Specialization require that you have a recent version of Microsoft Excel installed. The course setup instructions provided in the first course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.