Our Courses
Exploring Emerging Technologies for Lifelong Learning and Success
This learning opportunity is an open-access resource for lifelong learning. The aim is to identify the value and implications of using established and emerging technology tools for personal and professional growth and acquire strategies to develop lifelong learning habits to keep pace with technology change.
This course is targeted to the needs of ALL learners, including college students, faculty, current and career-seeking professionals, and anyone from across the globe with a desire to learn how to use emerging technologies to succeed in today’s rapidly changing world.
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- Self Paced
- 4 hours
- English
Getting Your Film off the Ground
This course is an introduction to many of the possibilities that exist to fund your film, market it, and create an audience for it. It will give you a sense of possible options and avenues to explore and it will start you on the process of making your film dreams a reality. The course covers the grant researching and writing process for fiction films and documentaries, strategies for developing impactful film websites, best social media practices for filmmakers, and how to approach crowdfunding and seeking investors.
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- 25 hours
- English
Working with Cloud Dataprep on Google Cloud
Cloud Dataprep is Google's self-service data preparation tool. In this lab, you will learn how to use Cloud Dataprep to clean and enrich multiple datasets using a mock use case scenario of customer info and purchase history.
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- 1 hour
- English
Twitter API: Mining Data using Orange Data Mining Platform
In this one hour long project, you will mine, analyze and visualize various trending tweets using Word Cloud, Heat map, Document Map and perform sentiment analysis using Orange.
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- 3 hours
- English
Engineering Practices for Building Quality Software
Agile embraces change which means that team should be able to effectively make changes to the system as team learns about users and market. To be good at effectively making changes to the system, teams need to have engineering rigor and excellence else embracing change becomes very painful and expensive.
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- 18 hours
- English
Building Applications with Eventarc on Google Cloud
This course teaches you how to build and secure event-driven applications by using Eventarc. Using lectures and hands-on labs, you create Eventarc triggers to route events from Google Cloud services to event receivers that act on the events. You learn about the standard CloudEvents format that is used by Eventarc, and you build and deploy an event receiver service to consume events.
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- 5 hours
- English
Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative
Intended for both newcomers who are curious about video games and experienced gamers who want to reflect on their passion, this course will explore what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they become the basis of massively multiplayer online games. The Lord of the Rings trilogy—the novels, films, and video game—are our central example of how “remediation” transforms familiar stories as they move across media.
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- 21 hours
- English
How to create Social Media graphics using Canva
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create different Social Media graphics using Canva.
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- 3 hours
- English
Innovative Finance: Hacking finance to change the world
To address global poverty - do we really not have enough resources or do we not have the right tools to allocate our resources?
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- 19 hours
- English
Agent-based Generative Art | NetLogo
"Generative art refers to any art practice where the artist creates a process, such as a computer program, which is then set into motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a completed work of art.
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- 3 hours
- English
iPhone Application Flow with Wireframes in Miro
By the end of this project, you will be able to apply user centered design principles to design an iPhone application flow with custom wireframes with the goal of creating a seamless User Experience (UX).
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- 2 hours
- English
Strategic Sales Management Final Project
Welcome to Course 5 – Strategic Sales Management Final Project.
In this course, you’ll develop the final project of the specialization, which is an application of the whole set of concepts, models, frameworks, tools, and techniques discussed and practiced through the four previous courses.
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- 8 hours
- English
SQL: A Practical Introduction for Querying Databases
Much of the world's data lives in databases. SQL (or Structured Query Language) is a powerful programming language that is used for communicating with and manipulating data in databases. A working knowledge of databases and SQL is a must for anyone who wants to start a career in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, Data Science or Business Intelligence. The purpose of this course is to help you learn and apply foundational and intermediate knowledge of the SQL language, and become familiar with many relational database (RDBMS) concepts along the way.
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- 21 hours
- English
Physics 102 - Electric Charges and Fields
This first course serves as an introduction to the physics of electricity and magnetism. Upon completion, learners will understand how mathematical laws and conservation principles describe fields and how these fields are related to electrical circuits. Learners will gain experience in solving physics problems with tools such as graphical analysis, algebra, vector analysis, and calculus. This first course covers Charge, Electric Forces, and Electric Fields.
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- 22 hours
- English
Sustainable Development in the 21st Century with Ban Ki-moon
The course is designed for people that want to learn about the latest development agenda the international community agreed to achieve by 2030. Structured around the five pillars of Agenda 2030 – people, prosperity, planet, peace and justice, and partnership, students will learn that these pillars are interconnected and need to be integrated in practical policy-making and operational activities for development, in both developed and developing country settings.
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- 16 hours
- English
Creating a De-identified Copy of Data in Cloud Storage
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you will create and run a Cloud DLP job using the DeID Findings Action to create a redacted and de-identified copy data in Cloud Storage.
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- 1 hour
- English
Build social awareness content for Instagram with Canva
At the end of this project, you will have all the basic skills to create Instagram content to educate and inform your audience using the Canva platform, an online tool for creating and editing Marketing visuals.
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- 4 hours
- English
Hacking COVID-19 — Course 2: Decoding SARS-CoV-2's Secrets
In this course, you will follow in the footsteps of the bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by annotating the SARS-CoV-2 genome and using the annotation to design a COVID-19 diagnostic test. Whether you’re new to the world of computational biology, or you’re a bioinformatics expert seeking to learn about its applications in the COVID-19 pandemic, or somewhere in between, this course is for you!
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- English
Lesson | Business English Skills: How to Write Effective Openings and Closings to Emails
This lesson is part of a full course, Business English Networking. Take this lesson to get a short tutorial on the learning objectives covered. To dive deeper into this topic, take the full course.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Write effective sentences to begin an email
- Write friendly, closing sentences
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- 1 hour
- English
Support Vector Machines with scikit-learn
In this project, you will learn the functioning and intuition behind a powerful class of supervised linear models known as support vector machines (SVMs).
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- 3 hours
- English
Developing Android Apps with App Inventor
The course will give students hands-on experience in developing interesting Android applications. No previous experience in programming is needed, and the course is suitable for students with any level of computing experience. MIT App Inventor will be used in the course. It is a blocks-based programming tool that allows everyone, even novices, to start programming and build fully functional apps for Android devices. Students are encouraged to use their own Android devices for hands-on testing and exploitation.
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- 38 hours
- English
Geospatial and Environmental Analysis
Apply your GIS knowledge in this course on geospatial analysis, focusing on analysis tools, 3D data, working with rasters, projections, and environment variables. Through all four weeks of this course, we'll work throug…
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- English
Public Health in Humanitarian Crises 2
This course, Public Health in Humanitarian Crises 2, addresses public health issues of people affected by disasters, both natural or conflict-related. It discusses the many changes that occur in people’s lives when they are uprooted by a disaster, including many important topics related to humanitarian crises, such as when there is an epidemic a public health emergency; what do we mean with the humanitarian development nexus; what are the basics of disaster epidemiology and surveillance; humanitarian principles; and other very relevant topics.
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- 12 hours
- English
Pandas Tutorial
Learn basic data visualization tools in Pandas, such as line plots, scatter plots, and histograms, and how to customize them.
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- English
Machine Learning: Predict Numbers from Handwritten Digits using a Neural Network, Keras, and R
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to build a Neural Network Model using Keras and the MNIST Data Set.
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- 2 hours
- English