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Supply chain management: Be global

Businesses and their supply chains are facing increasing competition and uncertainty in what is now a truly globalised trade environment. To remain competitive, organisations need to think globally – ensuring supply chains meet customer demands while minimising costs and maximising responsiveness. From a strategic perspective, this involves making important trade-off decisions between cost, quality and flexibility of supply chains.

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• Self Paced
• 24 hours
• English

Excel Skills for Business: Advanced

Spreadsheet software remains one of the most ubiquitous pieces of software used in workplaces around the world. Learning to confidently operate this software means adding a highly valuable asset to your employability portfolio. Across the globe, millions of job advertisements requiring Excel skills are posted every day. At a time when digital skills jobs are growing much faster than non-digital jobs, completing this course will position you ahead of others, so keep reading.

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• Self Paced
• 25 hours
• English

Anatomy: Gastrointestinal, Reproductive and Endocrine Systems

In this anatomy course, part of the Anatomy Specialization, you’ll learn about the various digestive, endocrine, and reproductive organs, their functions, and pathways of nerves and blood vessels serving these organs. Clinical correlations and vignettes will be used to highlight the importance of these anatomical structures and their relationships. Images and videos from cadaveric and artistic materials will be used to illustrate these concepts.

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• Self Paced
• 12 hours
• English

Writing Winning Resumes and Cover Letters

How can you bring your resume to the top of the pile? How can you present yourself to prospective employers using the language they already speak inside their organization? This course will give you answers to those questions. You will learn how to convert a boring resume into a dynamic asset statement that conveys your talents in the language that an employer understands.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
1. Identify the real purpose of a resume.
2. Identify relevant competencies for a position.

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• Self Paced
• 13 hours
• English

Write Professional Emails in English

This is a course to help you write effective business emails in English. This course is unique because each module will provide tips on writing more professional emails as well as lessons to improve your overall English writing skills. Therefore, you will improve your grammar and vocabulary skills for email writing and also improve your cross cultural knowledge to make you more powerful and successful in your business communication. You will look at different email formats to analyze tone, formality levels, and various organizational styles.

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• Self Paced
• 14 hours
• English

Foundations of strategic business analytics

Who is this course for?
This course is designed for students, business analysts, and data scientists who want to apply statistical knowledge and techniques to business contexts. For example, it may be suited to experienced statisticians, analysts, engineers who want to move more into a business role.
You will find this course exciting and rewarding if you already have a background in statistics, can use R or another programming language and are familiar with databases and data analysis techniques such as regression, classification, and clustering.

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• Self Paced
• 8 hours
• English

Concurrency in Go

Learn how to implement concurrent programming in Go. Explore the roles of channels and goroutines in implementing concurrency. Topics include writing goroutines and implementing channels for communications between goroutines. Course activities will allow you to exercise Go’s capabilities for concurrent programming by developing several example programs.

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• Self Paced
• 9 hours
• English

Excel Skills for Business: Essentials

In this first course of the specialization Excel Skills for Business, you will learn the essentials of Microsoft Excel. Within six weeks, you will be able to expertly navigate the Excel user interface, perform basic calculations with formulas and functions, professionally format spreadsheets, and create visualizations of data through charts and graphs.

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• Self Paced
• 26 hours
• English

The Raspberry Pi Platform and Python Programming for the Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a small, affordable single-board computer that you will use to design and develop fun and practical IoT devices while learning programming and computer hardware. In addition, you will learn how to set up up the Raspberry Pi environment, get a Linux operating system running, and write and execute some basic Python code on the Raspberry Pi. You will also learn how to use Python-based IDE (integrated development environments) for the Raspberry Pi and how to trace and debug Python code on the device. Please note that this course does not include discussion forums.

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• Self Paced
• 11 hours
• English

Strategy Formulation

The purpose of this course is to present, analyze and discuss the different facets of business strategy formulation. Emphasizing that strategy can be seen as a unified theme that provides coherence and direction to the actions and decisions of a firm, we will cover a variety of business strategy topics concerned with firm positioning in the context of different markets, industries and locations.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Identify why a strong strategy is essential for the future business success

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• Self Paced
• 16 hours
• English

Strategy Implementation

Even a thoroughly developed business strategy may fail if you don't pay enough attention to its implementation. This rings particularly true with strategies based on innovation or implemented in complex or fast-changing environments.

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• Self Paced
• 19 hours
• English

Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis

As data becomes the modern currency, so the ability to analyse the data quickly and accurately has become of paramount importance. Excel with its extraordinarily broad range of features and capabilities is one of the most widely used programs for doing this. In the first course of our Excel Skills for Data Analysis and Visualization Specialization, you will learn the fundamentals of Excel for data analysis.

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• Self Paced
• 15 hours
• English

Build personal resilience

Globalisation and advances in information and communication technology have resulted in a 24/7 work environment characterised by rapid change, a greater sense of competition, and an explosion in access to communication and information. These pressures compound stress related to workload and information processing – this not only reduces performance but can lead to a reduced sense of meaning and purpose as well as physical and mental health issues.

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• Self Paced
• 17 hours
• English

Advanced Data Structures in Java

How does Google Maps plan the best route for getting around town given current traffic conditions? How does an internet router forward packets of network traffic to minimize delay? How does an aid group allocate resources to its affiliated local partners?

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• Self Paced
• 29 hours
• English

Leading transformations: Manage change

We live in a globalised world of continuous change. Your ability to successfully manage change will allow you to have a positive impact on your work and your life. Via structured learning activities (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessment) this course will teach you how to effectively influence change by developing a ‘change mindset’, creating a productive change cycle, and leading yourself and others on the change journey. You will learn how to re-imagine change by redefining the change problem and developing a balanced and reflective change mindset.

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• Self Paced
• 18 hours
• English

Strategic Career Self-Management

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the current economy, Americans shift jobs every 4-5 years, which translates into 8-10 job transitions, including several career changes, over one’s life time. With competition for jobs on the rise, a person’s continuing employability and career success are increasingly defined by his or her mastery of individual career development and the ability to effectively "manage oneself" (P. Drucker).

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• Self Paced
• 13 hours
• English

Professional development: Improve yourself, always

The world of work is characterised by rapid ongoing change. In this dynamic environment, one of the most critical skills for leaders is their capacity to learn and to adapt; to engage in the continuous development of their skills in managing and leading others. This course will assist you in the ongoing development of your skills and abilities by focusing on the nature of the self-development process. You will reflect on and develop self-awareness of your current leadership style to understand the strengths you need to develop and which challenges you will face as a leader.

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• Self Paced
• 18 hours
• English

مهارات برنامج Excel للعمل: المبادئ الأساسية

في هذه الدورة التدريبية الأولى في تخصص مهارات برنامج Excel للعمل، ستتعلم المبادئ الأساسية لبرنامج Microsoft Excel. في غضون ستة أسابيع، ستتعلم التنقل بشكل محترف في واجهة مستخدم برنامج Excel، وإجراء الحسابات الأساسية باستخدام الصيغ والدالات، وتنسيق جداول البيانات بشكل باحترافي، وإنشاء تصورات للبيانات من خلال المخططات والرسوم البيانية.‏

وسواء أكنت قد تعلمت ذاتيًا وتريد أن تسد الفجوات لفعالية وإنتاجية أفضل، أو إذا لم تكن قد استخدمت برنامج Excel من قبل، فإن هذه الدورة التدريبية ستزودك بأساس متين لكي تصبح مستخدمًا واثقًا وتطور مهارات أكثر تقدمًا في الدورات التدريبية اللاحقة.

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• Self Paced
• 26 hours
• Arabic

Study Abroad USA: Building Capacity for US Institutions

Learn how to build and grow a study abroad program at your US institution of higher education.

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• Self Paced
• English

Terrorism and Counterterrorism

What is the danger of terrorism, and how can the world respond effectively?

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• Self Paced
• English

Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change

Learn principles and strategies for engaging with U.S.-based and global communities through partnerships, research, service, and learning

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• English

Living Heritage and Sustainable Development

How is intangible cultural heritage – or ‘living heritage’ – related to sustainable development? Why is it important to keep heritage alive?

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• Self Paced
• English

Monozukuri: Making Things

Learn the Japanese concept of Monozukuri: the art of "making things" starting with the philosophy including lectures from Tokyo Tech faculty, various examples from Japanese Industry, and the Tokyo Tech student clubs. In addition, the principles of experiental learning are also introduced.

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• Self Paced
• English

Friendship machine: forming a new type of human connections

Did you know that there are now 2.6 billion gamers in the world? By 2021, that number is expected to rise by 125 million. In terms of revenue, the video game industry has become bigger than the movie and music industries put together. Video games are sweeping the globe, quickly becoming a primary shaper of culture.

In an age of seemingly increasing social isolation and loneliness, communities are being formed and friendships forged in video games. But can you design for friendship? Do virtual connections have a meaningful impact on humans? What is the cost of loneliness?

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• Self Paced
• English

The Medieval Icelandic Sagas

Learn about the Icelandic Sagas, the characteristic literary genre of Medieval Iceland comprising roughly 40 texts.

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• Self Paced
• English