Our Courses
Building the Business Model for Corporate Entrepreneurs
Led by Dan Gordon, a University of Maryland faculty member who teaches business modeling in the National Science Foundation's I-Corps Program, this course enables you to develop and apply the Business Model Canvas tool to scope a corporate challenge or opportunity. You will learn how to identify and communicate the nine elements of a business model: Customer Segments, Value Propositions, Channels, Customer Relationships, Revenue Streams, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, and Cost Structure.
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- 11 hours
- English
Test-Driven Development Overview
In this introductory course you will get both a full overview of what TDD is, when it can and can't be applied, and what its benefits are for practitioners and organizations. You will also have the opportunity to get hands on with a few fun introductory projects where you can apply what you have learned and experience the benefits of this approach to problem solving yourself.
We recommend that you have some knowledge of the Python programming language. Examples and labs use Python.
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- 14 hours
- English
CSS3 Flexbox - Mastering the Basics
This project will teach you easy and simple examples on Flexbox properties so that one can understand and master the basics of Flexbox so that these can be applied in building modern web layouts in Front End part of the Web application process.
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- 3 hours
- English
Infonomics I: Business Information Economics and Data Monetization
Thriving in the Information Age compels organizations to deploy information as an actual business asset, not as an IT asset or merely as a business byproduct. This demands creativity in conceiving and implementing new ways to generate economic benefits from the wide array of information assets available to an organization. Unfortunately, information too frequently is underappreciated and therefore underutilized.
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- 14 hours
- English
Big Data, Genes, and Medicine
This course distills for you expert knowledge and skills mastered by professionals in Health Big Data Science and Bioinformatics. You will learn exciting facts about the human body biology and chemistry, genetics, and medicine that will be intertwined with the science of Big Data and skills to harness the avalanche of data openly available at your fingertips and which we are just starting to make sense of.
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- Self Paced
- 40 hours
- English
Introducing Security: Aligning Asset and Risk Management
Course 1 - Introducing Security and Aligning Asset Management to Risk Management
In this course, we're going to start by discussing the security concepts, identifying corporate assets, and discussing the risk management process.
Course 1 Learning Objectives
After completing this course, the participant will be able to:
L1.1 - Classify information security and security concepts.
L1.2 - Summarize components of the asset management lifecycle.
L1.3 - Identify common risks and vulnerabilities.
L1.4 - Provide examples of appropriate risk treatment.
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- 7 hours
- English
Statistics for Marketing
This course takes a deep dive into the statistical foundation upon which marketing analytics is built. The first part of this course will help you to thoroughly understand your dataset and what the data actually means. Then, it will go into sampling including how to ask specific questions about your data and how to conduct analysis to answer those questions.
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- 17 hours
- English
FPGA computing systems: Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration
New application domains demand ever increasing adaptability and performance. In order to cope with changing user requirements, improvements in system features, changing protocol and data-coding standards, and demands for support of a variety of different user applications, many emerging applications in communication, computing and consumer electronics demand that their functionality stays flexible after the system has been manufactured.
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- 28 hours
- English
Patent Law
In our modern technologically-based economy, the creation and enforcement of patent rights can make or break a business. With record numbers of patents being issued every year, the stakes for inventors (and, indeed, their lawyers) continue to rise, even as the patent law and its administration faces growing criticism.
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- 10 hours
- English
Using Query Store in Azure
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to (create Azure SQL Server database from Azure portal and with Data Migration Assistant, recognize regressed queries using Query Store and determine top resource consuming queries, get query wait statistics and queries with high variation).
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- 2 hours
- English
Everyday Parenting: The ABCs of Child Rearing
Everyday Parenting gives you access to a toolkit of behavior-change techniques that will make your typical day in the home easier as you develop the behaviors you would like to see in your child. The lessons provide step-by-step instructions and demonstrations to improve your course of action with both children and adolescents. Among many techniques, you will learn how even simple modifications to tone of voice and phrasing can lead to more compliance. The course will also shed light on many parenting misconceptions and ineffective strategies that are routinely used.
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- 21 hours
- English
Probability Theory: Foundation for Data Science
Understand the foundations of probability and its relationship to statistics and data science. We’ll learn what it means to calculate a probability, independent and dependent outcomes, and conditional events. We’ll study discrete and continuous random variables and see how this fits with data collection. We’ll end the course with Gaussian (normal) random variables and the Central Limit Theorem and understand its fundamental importance for all of statistics and data science.
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- 48 hours
- English
Dialogflow CX: Bot Building Basics
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console.
Build a conversational agent using Dialogflow CX. Dialogflow CX provides a simple, visual bot building approach to virtual agent design. Bot designers now have a much clearer picture of the overall bot building process and multiple designers are able to easily collaborate on the same agent build. Dialogflow CX supports many languages for your agent to use and understand, but this lab will be using only English.
In this lab you will build a conversational agent using Dialogflow CX.
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- Self Paced
- 1 hour
- English
Blockchain Business Models
Blockchain is an emerging and highly disruptive technology that is poorly understood. In this course you will learn what blockchain is and how it can create value by tokenization in cryptocurrencies and in many other practical applications.
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- 12 hours
- English
Co-design for All: doing co-design in practice
The Co-design for All course is a free online programme on how to put together a case study proposal using a co-design approach. It is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning about co-design methods and how to apply them in any real life scenario.
By the end of the course, you will have learned how to put together a case study proposal using co-design. This will be achieved by learning how to adapt and apply these methods to your chosen real life scenario and by producing materials contextualized to it.
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- 6 hours
- English
Bridging the Gap between Strategy Design and Delivery
Remember to get your voucher before starting the course to earn your Brightline® Initiative certificate using this link: https://www.coursera.org/promo/brightlinepromo.
In today’s competitive business environment, organizations are facing unprecedented levels of change and disruption. Only 1 out of 10 executives based on a global survey admit that their organizations successfully deliver all of their strategic initiatives. This course will help you as a leader of your organization to bridge the costly and wasteful gap between strategy design and delivery.
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- 19 hours
- English
Collaborate Effectively for Professional Success
Collaboration is not just the act of working together. It goes beyond that. Through collaboration, you can accomplish much more than what you would if you worked alone. Having the skills to communicate with the people you are working with and being able to work as a team towards your goal are just some of the skills you will learn in this course to help you collaborate effectively in the workplace.
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- 2 hours
- English
Reports, Dashboards, and Customer Success in Salesforce
The fourth course in the Salesforce Sales Operations Professional Certificate — Reports, Dashboards, and Customer Success in Salesforce — is for anyone who is curious about entry level sales roles that require foundational skills in Salesforce, the sales operations specialist role specifically, how to use tools in Salesforce to improve customer service at a business, how to leverage data in Salesforce to improve the overall performance of a sales team, and the path to becoming a Salesforce administrator.
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- 31 hours
- English
JavaScript for Web Development
Dive into the captivating world of JavaScript, a cornerstone language that has revolutionized web development by enabling dynamic and engaging web applications. This course, divided into three holistic modules, ensures learners gain a deep understanding of JavaScript from basic concepts to advanced implementations.
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- 14 hours
- English
Creating a Wordcloud using NLP and TF-IDF in Python
By the end of this project, you will learn how to create a professional looking wordcloud from a text dataset in Python.
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- 3 hours
- English
Joining Data in R using dplyr
You will need to join or merge two or more data sets at different points in your work as a data enthusiast.
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- 3 hours
- English
First Order Optical System Design
This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5600, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
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- 22 hours
- English
Essential Epidemiologic Tools for Public Health Practice
In order to make a difference in the health and well-being of a population, we must understand the burden of all problems and conditions that affect the population, as well as how well our efforts to mitigate these problems are actually working. This course provides you with some essential skills and tools that will enhance your ability to describe and understand the health of your community. The tools that epidemiologists use are in fact useful for all public health practitioners, including data scientists, program officials, agency leaders, and policymakers.
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- 5 hours
- English
Get started with Microsoft Planner
In this project, learners will become familiar with Microsoft Planner.
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- Self Paced
- 1 hour
- English
Android Programming for Beginners - A simple BMI calculator
By the end of this project you'll create a Simple BMI calculator Android application using Android studio and Java.
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- Self Paced
- 4 hours
- English