Our Courses
File Editor Time Travel with Linux
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will time travel to visit some of the popular Linux file editors throughout history, from ancient to recent.
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- 3 hours
- English
Present with Purpose: Create/Deliver Effective Presentations
Knowing how to create a presentation is a powerful tool when it comes to communication. Presentations are a key part of every office or business related job and you need to have the skills to deliver a presentation that leaves an impact on viewers.
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- 3 hours
- English
What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care provides invaluable help for patients living with serious or life-limiting illness and their family caregivers. Palliative care should be part of healthcare services to improve quality of life, the ability to tolerate and benefit from treatment and improve survival. In this course, you will learn about the nature of suffering and how this concept can help you understand the experience of people living with serious illness.
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- 17 hours
- English
Deep Learning Applications for Computer Vision
In this course, you’ll be learning about Computer Vision as a field of study and research. First we’ll be exploring several Computer Vision tasks and suggested approaches, from the classic Computer Vision perspective. Then we’ll introduce Deep Learning methods and apply them to some of the same problems. We will analyze the results and discuss advantages and drawbacks of both types of methods. We'll use tutorials to let you explore hands-on some of the modern machine learning tools and software libraries.
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- 23 hours
- English
C++ Decision Programming
In this project you will create an application that yields a zodiac sign based on an input of birth month and day.
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- 2 hours
- English
The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2)
This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?
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- 14 hours
- English
Tools and Techniques for Managing Stress
Welcome to the "Tools and Techniques for Managing Stress" course!
This course offers valuable tools and techniques to effectively manage and cope with stress in both personal and professional domains. Through this program, students will acquire strategies to identify stressors, develop comprehensive stress management plans, and implement relaxation techniques that foster overall well-being.
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- 8 hours
- English
Dentistry 101
Dentistry 101 is an introduction to the exciting and diverse field of dentistry through the lens of its many practitioners. If you’re interested in exploring dentistry as a profession, or if you’re ready to pursue a career in it and want to prepare yourself for dental school and the profession that lies ahead, Dentistry 101 will help you better envision the paths you can take.
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- 9 hours
- English
Omnibond: Creating an HPC Environment in Google Cloud with CloudyCluster
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console.
In this lab, you create a complete turn-key High Performance Computing (HPC) environment in Google Cloud. This environment will provide the familiar look and feel of on-prem HPC systems but with the added elasticity and scalability of Google Cloud.
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- 2 hours
- English
Object-Oriented Python: Inheritance and Encapsulation
Code and run your first python program in minutes without installing anything!
This course is designed for learners with limited coding experience, providing a solid foundation of not just python, but core Computer Science topics that can be transferred to other languages. The modules in this course cover inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, and other object-related topics. Completion of the prior 3 courses in this specialization is recommended.
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- 10 hours
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Google Cloud Compute and Scalability for AWS Professionals
This is the second course of a four-course series for cloud architects and engineers with existing AWS knowledge. It aims to compare Google Cloud and AWS solutions and guide professionals on their use.
This course focuses on compute resources and load balancing in Google Cloud. The learner will apply the knowledge of using virtual machines and load balancers in AWS to explore the similarities and differences with configuring and managing compute resources and load balancers in Google Cloud. Learners will get hands-on practice building and managing Google Cloud resources.
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- 4 hours
- English
The Music of the Rolling Stones, 1962-1974
This course will survey the music of the Rolling Stones, beginning with the roots and first formation of the band in the early 1960s, and following the group through the release of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll in late 1974.
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- 14 hours
- English
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio
Learn the mathematics behind the Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio, and their relationship to each other. These topics may not be taught as part of a typical math curriculum, but they contain many fascinating results that are still accessible to an advanced high school student.
The course culminates in an exploration of the Fibonacci numbers appearing unexpectedly in nature, such as the number of spirals in the head of a sunflower.
Download the lecture notes from the link
https://www.math.hkust.edu.hk/~machas/fibonacci.pdf
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- 9 hours
- English
Automatic Machine Learning with H2O AutoML and Python
This is a hands-on, guided project on Automatic Machine Learning with H2O AutoML and Python.
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- 2 hours
- English
Advanced Grammar & Punctuation Project
If you have taken the three courses in this specialization, you have learned a lot of grammar in the past few months. This will be a big help to your studies or your career. This project will help you process what you've…
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Demand management: Breaking down today’s commercial silos
The biggest challenge facing the hospitality industry over the next 5 years is the lack of integration between the key commercial disciplines of sales, revenue, distribution and finance and the negative impact this will continue to have on delivering asset value and maximum profitability.
This course, spread over 4 key modules:
Asset Management
Demand Generation
Digital Marketing
Demand Optimisation
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- English
Leading Organizations
This course is the last course of the a Specialization on Leadership called “Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense”, so you may want to take the courses “Building Your Leadership Skills” and “Giving Sense to your Leadership Experience” prior of taking this course.
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- 22 hours
- English
How to create presentations using Canva
In this project you will learn how to make presentations using Canva.
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- 3 hours
- English
Software Defined Networking
In this course, you will learn about software defined networking and how it is changing the way communications networks are managed, maintained, and secured.
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- 33 hours
- English
Religion and Thought in Modern China: the Song, Jin, and Yuan
This sequence of four courses will propose a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Chinese cultural history conceived of as a succession of modes of rationality (philosophical, bureaucratic, and economic). The focus will be on the moments of paradigm shift from one mode of rationality to another. For each of these moments, cultural facts and artifacts—thought, literature, ritual—will be examined in relationship to changing social, political, and economic systems.
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- 28 hours
- English
TypeScript Control Structures
By the end of this project, you will learn to control the flow of application through if, if-else, else and switch statements.
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- 3 hours
- English
TypeScript String Properties and Methods
This project will teach you TypeScript string properties and methods in the TypeScript playground which will make string handling easier.
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- 3 hours
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User Experience: Research & Prototyping
What makes for a great user experience? How can you consistently design experiences that work well, are easy to use and people want to use? This course will teach you the core process of experience design and how to effectively evaluate your work with the people for whom you are designing. You'll learn fundamental methods of design research that will enable you to effectively understand people, the sequences of their actions, and the context in which they work.
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- 11 hours
- English
Ecology: Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation
This course is an introduction to ecology and ecosystem dynamics using a systems thinking lens. Through a case study on Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, learners will explore how scientists study ecosystems, and investigate the complex array of factors that inform management efforts. At the end of the course, learners will be able to grapple with real-world conservation questions, such as whether an ecosystem can recover from anthropogenic disruption and what role humans can, and should, play in that recovery.
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- 9 hours
- English
Microsoft Azure Databricks for Data Engineering
In this course, you will learn how to harness the power of Apache Spark and powerful clusters running on the Azure Databricks platform to run large data engineering workloads in the cloud.
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- 22 hours
- English