Our Courses
Unraveling the Cycling City
Obscured by its apparent simplicity, cycling is a complex phenomenon. Being an almost perfect human-machine hybrid, cycling is deeply rooted in a plethora of socio-technological systems. Around the world cycling is embraced as an important ingredient to tackle a wide variety of individual and societal challenges. The Netherlands is often seen as an ideal living lab, because cycling has retained its significant share of mobility throughout the country.
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- 23 hours
- English
Hacking Exercise For Health. The surprising new science of fitness.
Renowned exercise physiologists Martin Gibala and Stuart Phillips of McMaster University teach the surprising new science of cardio fitness and strength-building—and then provide you with hacks to get fit and strong (and healthy!) in less time than you ever thought possible. What’s the right mix of exercise between cardio and strength? How do you know if you’re working out hard enough? What’s better, heavy or light weights?
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- 23 hours
- English
Entrepreneurship
An entrepreneur is someone who is always on the lookout for problems that can be turned into opportunities and finds creative ways to leverage limited resources to reach their goals. In this course, learners will be introduced to the fundamental concepts, theories, and frameworks of entrepreneurship and learn how to apply them within the context of the world's largest market: China.
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- 14 hours
- English
Attaining Higher Education
Prepare to transition to college using intentional decision-making. Aimed at active duty service members and veterans, with this course you will learn about the college admission process, including financial aid, to help you choose a right-fit college.
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- 20 hours
- English
Fundamentals of Cloud Logging
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this hands-on lab, you learn how to use Cloud Logging to accumulate application logs in a single place, filter to reach the required log, understand how to create logs based metrics for advanced analysis, examine the audit logs use case, and export logs for compliance and/or advanced analysis needs.
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- 1 hour
- English
Fundamentals of Accounting and Reporting
This course is for those interested in starting a career in bookkeeping. The course will help you learn and apply the basic concepts of computerized accounting using TallyPrime, fundamentals of accounting, book-keeping, day-to-day business transactions, creating charts of accounts, preparing and analyzing management information systems, and how to secure company data.
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- 43 hours
- English
Getting Started on Mainframe with z/OS Commands and Panels
Getting Started with the IBM Mainframe with z/OS Commands and Panels is a mostly hands-on in an IBM Mainframe z/OS Environment. A total of seven labs will provide live access to an IBM Z server. The labs are designed to teach you the fundamental practical skills to navigate and work in a z/OS environment. This includes the use of ISPF/PDF dialogs, and TSO/E commands.
On successful completion of this course, the learners are eligible to claim the Getting Started on Mainframe with z/OS Commands and Panels badge. More information can be found here:
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- 15 hours
- English
Django for Beginners: Templates
This guided project, Django for Beginners: Templates, will help a beginning Python programmer who is looking to generate dynamic HTML content in the context of a Python-based application.
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- 3 hours
- English
AWS Fundamentals: Addressing Security Risk
Welcome to AWS Fundamentals: Addressing Security Risk!
This course will give you an overview of security best practices when developing and managing applications on AWS. The course, created by AWS experts and delivered by AWS Solutions Architects, uses video lectures, hands-on exercise guides, demonstrations, and quizzes to dive deep on concepts about security on AWS. You will learn about the concept of “least privilege” and the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, as well as view demonstrations of Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Secrets Manager, and cross-account access.
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- 6 hours
- English
Python Project: pillow, tesseract, and opencv
This course will walk you through a hands-on project suitable for a portfolio. You will be introduced to third-party APIs and will be shown how to manipulate images using the Python imaging library (pillow), how to apply optical character recognition to images to recognize text (tesseract and py-tesseract), and how to identify faces in images using the popular opencv library. By the end of the course you will have worked with three different libraries available for Python 3 to create a real-world data-analysis project.
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- 20 hours
- English
Compute Engine: Qwik Start - Windows
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. Google Compute Engine lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure. In this lab you create a Windows Server instance in the Google Compute Engine and access it with RDP. Watch a short preview, Launch a Windows Server Instance, GCP Essentials.
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- 1 hour
- English
Build a Scoring Mechanic with C# in Unity - Shooting Targets
In this one-hour, project-based course, you'll learn how to set up targets and apply scoring mechanics in your FPS game.
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- 2 hours
- English
DevOps Capstone Project
Showcase your DevOps and Software Engineering skills with this hands-on Capstone project! In this course you will apply the skills and techniques you have learned as part of the previous courses in the Professional Certificate. During the project you will develop, test, deploy, monitor, and enhance a secure microservices-based application on Cloud, over the course of several sprints.
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- 14 hours
- English
Data Cleaning in SQL: Prepare Data for Analysis
Use SQL to transform and clean data using SQL functions
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- 3 hours
- English
The Blues: Understanding and Performing an American Art Form
The blues is an American art form and the most important musical form in jazz. Although there are other formal paradigms of the blues, such as 8-bar or 16-bar, this course focuses on different incarnations of the 12-bar blues. There are considerable differences between Early Jazz blues, Swing blues, Bebop blues, Modal blues, and Post Bop blues. Each type has its unique harmonic syntax, melodic vocabulary and, associated with them, improvisational techniques.
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- 11 hours
- English
TensorFlow Serving with Docker for Model Deployment
This is a hands-on, guided project on deploying deep learning models using TensorFlow Serving with Docker.
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- 3 hours
- English
Work with Dates in JavaScript
By the end of this project, you will have learned to create and manipulate date objects in JavaScript.
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- 2 hours
- English
Calculate Data in SQL using MySQL Workbench
By the end of this project, you will perform data calculations on product data in a MySQL database using SQL commands.
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- 3 hours
- English
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Welcome to this massive open online course (MOOC) about Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Please read the points below before you start the course. This will help you prepare well for the course and attend it properly. It will also help you determine if the course offers the knowledge and skills you are looking for.
What can you do with QCA?
•\tQCA is a comparative method that is mainly used in the social sciences for the assessment of cause-effect relations (i.e. causation).
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- 27 hours
- English
How To Build a Network Topology Using GNS3
In this 1-hour 30-mins long project-based course, you will learn how to build a network topology using GNS3, as well as configuring network devices and troubleshooting them.
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- 2 hours
- English
Introductory Human Physiology
Explore the fascinating world of human physiology and learn about the body's organ systems, their functions, and how they maintain health. In this comprehensive course, you will:
- Master key concepts in human physiology and homeostasis
- Delve into the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, and urinary systems
- Examine the role of senses, muscles, gastrointestinal, and reproductive systems
- Apply knowledge to real-life situations and medical conditions
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- 34 hours
- English
HBase to Bigtable Offline Migration
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. Get introduced to using Cloud Bigtable with the Java HBase client. Learn how to: avoid common mistakes with schema design, import data in a sequence…
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Data Visualization using Microsoft Excel
Have you ever been asked to create a report based on a lot of data and you did not know where to begin? Or, you simply needed to demonstrate data from different sources all in one place with minimum effort? By the end of this project, you will learn how to operate data to generate a report and demonstrate information in a comprehensive visual way in Microsoft Excel.
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- 1 hour
- English
How to Create an Online Course
Learn how to design and develop online learning materials.
Digital education is expanding faster than ever before, and learning online has become an essential part of how we teach and learn.
On this two-week course, you’ll learn how to create online learning materials that are open, accessible, and engaging.
You will complete practical activities to explore key topics such as target audience, writing style and narrative, active learning, and digital tools.
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- 8 hours
- English
Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and Development
We’re excited you’re here! This course, “Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and Development,” is the first course in the Sustainability and Development MasterTrack® Certificate, but you can also take this course as a stand-alone learning opportunity.
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- 9 hours
- English