How To Set Up Project Sites and Spaces with Confluence
Confluence is a browser based tool that teams can use in the workplace to collaborate on a variety of projects. Confluence allows you to create anything from meeting notes and product requirements to marketing plans and HR policies. You can create a template for documents that you create regularly and save time. This project will take you through setting up project sites and spaces in Confluence.
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- Level Professional
- المدة 1 ساعات hours
- الطبع بواسطة Coursera
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Confluence is a browser based tool that teams can use in the workplace to collaborate on a variety of projects. Confluence allows you to create anything from meeting notes and product requirements to marketing plans and HR policies. You can create a template for documents that you create regularly and save time. This project will take you through setting up project sites and spaces in Confluence.الوحدات
Your Learning Journey
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- How To Set Up Project Sites and Spaces with Confluence
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Auto Summary
"How To Set Up Project Sites and Spaces with Confluence" is an intermediate-level course designed to enhance your personal development skills. Offered by Coursera, this one-hour course guides you through using Confluence, a browser-based collaboration tool. Learn to create and manage project sites and spaces, from meeting notes to HR policies. Ideal for those looking to streamline documentation, the course is available for free, making it accessible to all learners aiming to improve their project management capabilities.
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- Level Foundation
- المدة 3 ساعات hours
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This Guided Project 'VEGA for Beginners: Scan for Web Vulnerabilities' is for web developers, security professionals, and anyone who is interested in learning about web application security testing. In this 1 hour long project-based course, you will learn how to deploy and configure VEGA on Windows to scan for high, medium and low web vulnerabilities including SQL injection. You will learn how to use the VEGA scanner to identify SQL injection vulnerabilities in web applications, including how to configure and use the tool, and how to verify its results. You will also learn how to use SQLmap, to verify the SQL injection vulnerabilities reported by Vega. You will learn how to use these tools to perform a range of testing activities, including scanning and data extraction. This project is unique because by the end of the course, you will have an understanding of web application security testing and be equipped with the skills to use VEGA and SQLmap to secure your own web applications. In order to be successful in this project, it's recommended that you have a basic networking concepts like HTTP/HTTPS protocol and a basic understanding of SQL queries. This course is intended for educational purposes only and the course provider and instructors are not responsible for any illegal or unethical actions taken by course participants.Auto Summary
Explore web application security with "VEGA for Beginners: Scan for Web Vulnerabilities." Ideal for web developers and security professionals, this beginner-level course offers a hands-on approach to learning vulnerability scanning. Offered by Coursera, it’s a 180-minute guided project available for free. Perfect for those keen on enhancing their web security skills.
How to setup a followers campaign on Twitter
In this guided tutorial, you will learn how to setup a followers campaign on Twitter. Note: This tutorial works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We're currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
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- Level Foundation
- المدة 3 ساعات hours
- الطبع بواسطة Coursera
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In this guided tutorial, you will learn how to setup a followers campaign on Twitter. Note: This tutorial works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We're currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.الوحدات
Your Learning Journey
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- Assess Your Knowledge
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- How to setup a followers campaign on Twitter
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- Project Overview
Auto Summary
Discover how to set up a followers campaign on Twitter with this beginner-friendly course from Coursera. Focused on personal development, this 180-minute guided tutorial is perfect for North American users looking to enhance their social media presence. Enjoy free access to expert instruction and start growing your Twitter following today. Ideal for newcomers to social media marketing.
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- Level Foundation
- المدة 2 ساعات hours
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In this guided project, we will build, train, and test a deep neural network model to classify low-resolution images containing airplanes, cars, birds, cats, ships, and trucks in Keras and Tensorflow 2.0. We will use Cifar-10 which is a benchmark dataset that stands for the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR) and contains 60,000 32x32 color images. This project is practical and directly applicable to many industries.Auto Summary
Learn to classify images of various objects using deep neural networks in Keras and TensorFlow 2.0. This beginner-friendly course, offered by Coursera, guides you through building, training, and testing a model on the CIFAR-10 dataset. Perfect for those looking to develop skills in image classification and deep learning. The course spans 120 minutes and is available for free. Ideal for personal development enthusiasts.
Monthly Subscription Starting at AED 99 + VAT
- Level Foundation
- المدة 13 ساعات hours
- الطبع بواسطة Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
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Throughout history, the vast majority of people around the globe have believed they have, however defined, a “soul.” While the question of whether the soul exists cannot be answered by science, what we can study are the causes and consequences of various beliefs about the soul and its prospects of surviving the death of the body. Why are soul and afterlife beliefs so common in human history? Are there adaptive advantages to assuming souls exist? Are there brain structures that have been shaped by environmental pressures that provide the foundation of body/mind dualism that is such a prominent feature of many religions? How do these beliefs shape the worldviews of different cultures and our collective lives? What is the role of competing afterlife beliefs in religion, science, politics, and war? This course explores several facets of this relatively unexplored but profoundly important aspect of human thought and behavior. The course consists mainly of 70 to 80 minute lectures, typically broken up into 3 segments, recorded from a course offered by Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences. These videos include slides and some embedded video clips. Most lectures are accompanied by slides used during the lecture, also including recommended reading assignment which may provide additional opportunities to reflect on your studies. Due to the lengthiness of this class and natural progression, the online course has been separated into 3 units, this is Unit 3.الوحدات
Section 1
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- Introduction
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- Welcome to the Course
- Learner Support
Section 1
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- Quiz 1
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- Evolutionary Psychology Part A
- Evolutionary Psychology Part B
- Evolutionary Psychology Part C
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- Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer
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- The Evolution of the Human Brain Part A
- The Evolution of the Human Brain Part B
- The Evolution of the Human Brain Part C
Section 1
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- The Human Spark Part A
- The Human Spark Part B
- The Human Spark Part C
- NPR audio interview - Richard Leakey Reflects On Human Past And Future
Section 1
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- The Scopes Trial Part A
- The Scopes Trial Part B
- The Scopes Trial Part C
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- State vs John Scopes ("The Monkey Trial")
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- Judgment Day Intelligent Design On Trial
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- Kitzmiller vs Dover Area School District: Teaching Intelligent Design in Public Schools
- Defeating Creationism in the Courtroom, But Not in the Classroom
Soul Reversal
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- Soul Reversal
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- Where Do We Go From Here Part A
- Where Do We Go From Here Part B
Final Review
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Auto Summary
Explore the fascinating realm of soul beliefs and their impact on human thought with "Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences - Unit 3: How Does It All End?" This personal development course, instructed by Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences, delves into the historical and cultural significance of soul and afterlife beliefs. Over 780 minutes of engaging lectures, segmented for ease, you'll examine the adaptive advantages, brain structures, and societal implications of these beliefs. Ideal for beginners, the course offers both starter and professional subscription options. Join now to uncover the profound influence of soul beliefs on human behavior.
Saving Money for the Future
This course is designed for anyone who currently has, or will have in the future have, savings goals. Learners will come to understand the importance of compounding growth, the variables that impact setting goals like retirement savings, and how much money you need to save now to reach future goals. The course will help learners think through individual goals, like retirement, but also how those goals fit into your bigger financial picture. For example, saving for retirement, buying a home, and funding college for your kids all at the same time.
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- Level Foundation
- المدة 9 ساعات hours
- الطبع بواسطة SoFi
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This course is designed for anyone who currently has, or will have in the future have, savings goals. Learners will come to understand the importance of compounding growth, the variables that impact setting goals like retirement savings, and how much money you need to save now to reach future goals. The course will help learners think through individual goals, like retirement, but also how those goals fit into your bigger financial picture. For example, saving for retirement, buying a home, and funding college for your kids all at the same time. The instructors will also cover how preparing for emergencies can prevent the derailment of those financial goals. The concepts covered in this course are broad but through the activities offered, learners will see how to apply what they are learning about saving money for the future to their lives now. This course is geared towards learners in the United States of America.الوحدات
The Power of Compounding
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- Compounding Growth
- Rule of 72
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- What Are Accumulation Goals?
- 5 Steps to Achieving Your Savings Goals
- Investing to Achieve Your Goals
- Saving vs Investing
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- Welcome to Saving Money for the Future
Making Saving a Habit
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- Saving for Goals
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- Savings Goals by Age
- 5 Types of Savings You Should Consider Having
- 15 Creative Ways to Save Money
Saving for Emergencies
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- Target Emergency Fund
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- Emergency Fund Basics
- How Much is Enough for Your Emergency Fund?
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- 6 Steps for Starting an Emergency Fund
- Activity - Calculate Your Target Emergency Fund
Building and Maintaining Your Emergency Fund
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- Places for Emergency Fund
- Saving for Emergencies
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- How to Earn Interest on Your Emergency Fund
- Building Your Emergency Fund
- Using Your Emergency Fund
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- Should You Invest Your Emergency Fund?
- 6 Real Questions About Your Emergency Fund—Answered
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- Building Your Financial Foundation
Clarifying Your Retirement Goal
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- Key Retirement Variables
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- An Introduction to Retirement Planning
- Key Considerations for Retirement
- The Power of Investing for Retirement
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- Activity - Create Your Vision of Retirement
- Typical Retirement Expenses to Prepare For
Sources of Income in Retirement
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- Social Security Basics
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- How Social Security Works
- How Pensions Work
- Retirement Considerations by Life Stage
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- Top 5 Social Security Myths
- When Will Social Security Run Out?
- Explaining the 3-Legged Stool of Retirement
Saving for Retirement
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- Saving for Retirement
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- Understanding How Much You Need to Save for Retirement
- Assessing If You Are On Track for Retirement
- Catching Up If You Are Behind
- Overcoming The Unique Challenges Physicians Face Saving for Retirement
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- Activity - Calculate Your Retirement
- 5 Ways to Rebuild Your Retirement Savings
Accounts to Use for Retirement
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- Retirement Accounts
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- Ways to Save for Retirement
- Utilizing Traditional and Roth IRAs for Retirement
- Utilizing Employer Retirement Plans for Retirement
- Using an HSA for Retirement Savings
- Choosing the Right Way to Save for Retirement
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- Understanding the Different Types of Retirement Plans
- Retirement Options For the Self-Employed
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- Quiz: Funding Your Financial Freedom
Buying a Home
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- Buying a Home
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- Homebuying Basics
- How Much Home Can You Afford
- Renting vs Buying a Home
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- Costs of Owning a Home
- Home Buying Mistakes to Avoid
- The Ultimate Home Inspection Checklist
Saving for Major Purchases
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- Rent vs. Buy
- Time Horizon
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- Buying vs Leasing a Car
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- How Much Should I Spend on a Car?
- What Should Your Average Car Payment Be?
- Importance of Time Horizons For Investing
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- Saving for Other Milestones
Calculating the Return on Education
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- Components of College Savings
- Return on Education
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- Calculating the Return on Education
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- Comparing the Pros and Cons of Going to College
- Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs
Analyzing Costs and Financial Aid
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- Cost of College
- Paying for College
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- The True Cost of Education
- Types of Financial Aid
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- Trends in Higher Education Series
- What Percentage of Parents Pay for College?
Saving and Paying for College
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- 529 Plans
- Saving for College
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- Choosing the Right Way to Save for College
- How 529 Plans Work
- Choosing the Right 529 Plan
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- How to Start Saving for Your Child's College Tuition
- Paying for College - A Parent's Guide
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- Funding Your Child's Education
Auto Summary
"Saving Money for the Future" is a foundational personal development course by Coursera, aimed at helping learners in the USA understand and achieve their savings goals. Covering essential topics like compounding growth, retirement planning, and emergency preparedness, this 540-minute course offers practical activities to apply these concepts to real-life financial planning. Ideal for those looking to integrate multiple financial goals, it is available through Starter and Professional subscriptions and taught by expert instructors.
Teaching Impacts of Technology: Relationships
In this course you’ll focus on how “smart” devices have changed how we interact with others in personal ways, impacting how we stay connected in our increasingly mobile society. This will be done through a series of paired teaching sections, exploring a specific “Impact of Computing” in your typical day and the “Technologies and Computing Concepts” that enable that impact, all at a K12-appropriate level.
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- Level Foundation
- المدة 11 ساعات hours
- الطبع بواسطة University of California San Diego
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In this course you’ll focus on how “smart” devices have changed how we interact with others in personal ways, impacting how we stay connected in our increasingly mobile society. This will be done through a series of paired teaching sections, exploring a specific “Impact of Computing” in your typical day and the “Technologies and Computing Concepts” that enable that impact, all at a K12-appropriate level. This course is part of a larger Specialization through which you’ll learn impacts of computing concepts you need to know, organized into 5 distinct digital “worlds”, as well as learn pedagogical techniques and evaluate lesson plans and resources to utilize in your classroom. By the end, you’ll be prepared to teach pre-college learners to be both savvy and effective participants in their digital world. In this particular digital world (relationships), you’ll explore the following Impacts & Technology pairs -- Impacts (Keep me connected in a mobile society):, personal relationships, facebook, circle of friends Technology and Computing Concepts: algorithms, software engineering evolution, heuristics, computer runtime, big O notation, P vs NP Impacts (Making geography-based connections): findings friends, maps, geolocation Technology and Computing Concepts: data and binary, image encoding, pixels, how color pickers work, filters, blurs In the pedagogy section for this course, in which best practices for teaching computing concepts are explored, you’ll learn about the current CSTA K-12 CS Standards and practice using them to review and apply to lesson plans, as well as how to apply the ICAP framework to connect your students’ engagement to active learning outcomes, such as through peer instruction. In terms of CSTA K-12 computer science standards, we’ll primarily cover learning objectives within the “impacts of computing” concept, while also including some within the “networks and the Internet” concepts and the “data and analysis” concept. Practices we cover include “fostering and inclusive computing culture”, “recognizing and defining computational problems”, and “communicating about computing”.الوحدات
Welcome!
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- Welcome to the course!
- This is part of a specialization
How will this course help you?
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- Who are you and What are you looking for?
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- Are you wanting UC, San Diego transcript credit?
- Engagement and Assessment Goals
Check Your Knowledge
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- Orientation Quiz - Make Sure you Know the Score
Technology Check
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- Using Googledoc Templates in this Class
Problem: Keeping Connected in a Mobile Society
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ExternalTool
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- How Facebook Affects Personal Relationships
- Why you shouldn't feel guilty about blocking people
- How Facebook Monitors Content
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- What was most interesting or surprising?
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- Keeping Connected in a Mobile Society
- In Your Experience
- Your First Interactive Reading
- Check Your Knowledge
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- Activity Prep: Finding your "Lost Circles" of Friends
- Where's my interactive reading grade?
Focus on Facebook
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ExternalTool
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- Who Controls Your Facebook Feed: Part 1 Algorithms and Heuristics
- Who Controls Your Facebook Feed: Part 2: History of an Algorithm
- Who Controls Your Facebook Feed: Part 3 Software Engineering Evolution
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- Activity: Scoring Facebook Posts
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- Why Facebook?
- Check Your Knowledge
Technology Exploration
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- Programs that slow you down
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- Vicarious Lost Circles (if you didn't run it)
- Explore Your Circles of Friends (and tell us about it)
- Check Your Knowledge
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- Wow -- Lost Circles took a LONG time to run!
- Other Reasons Your Computer Runs Slowly
- Heuristics vs. Algorithms
- Career Exploration: User Experience Designer
Teacher Powerup
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- What is Teacher Powerup?
- Check Your Knowledge
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- Big O Notation
- P vs NP (What's the difference?!)
- Optional: Extra Teacher Resources
Technology Mastery Quiz
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- Mastery Quiz Part 1
- Mastery Quiz Part 2
- Mastery Quiz Part 3
Making Geography-Based Connections
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ExternalTool
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- Finding Your Friends with Geolocation
- Impacts of Snapchat Map
- More than just fun: Supporting relationships in crisis
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- Other Apps that use Geolocation... for Good!
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- Making Geography-Based Connections
- Check Your Knowledge
Technology Exploration
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- Check Your Knowledge
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- How Snapchat's filters work
- Digging Deep: Data and Binary
- Encoding Image Basics
- Find Out How Color Picker Works!
- Advanced Image Encoding
Teacher Powerup
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ExternalTool
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- How Snapchat Face Filters
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- Check Your Knowledge
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- How Blurs and Filters Work
- Optional: Extra Teacher Resources
Technology Mastery Quiz
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- Mastery Quiz Part 1
- Mastery Quiz Part 2
Impacts of Computing
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- Why Study: Impacts and Next Steps
- K-12 CSTA Computer Science Standards
- Check Your Knowledge
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- Before Standards: The K-12 Computer Science Framework
- Optional: Additional Teacher Resources
Theories of Learning: Dissecting "Active Learning"
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- What makes "good" active learning?
- The ICAP Framework
- Scaffolding Interactivity Example: Peer Instruction
- Peer Instruction for Impacts of Computing Lessons
- Check Your Knowledge
- Impacts: What we'll learn and how
Mastery Quiz
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- Pedagogy Mastery Quiz
Making Your Impacts of Computing Lesson Plan More Interactive
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- Sharing Interactivity Ideas with your Virtual Professional Learning Community
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- Optional: Share your lesson plan with others
Experience an Encoding Lesson Plan
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ExternalTool
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- Follow and Critique the History of a Pixel Lesson Plan
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- How did the lesson plan support your learning?
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- Follow a lesson plan: As a student
Auto Summary
Discover how "smart" devices shape our personal interactions in the "Teaching Impacts of Technology: Relationships" course. Designed for K12 educators, this foundational course by Coursera covers computing impacts on relationships and geography-based connections. You'll delve into algorithms, software engineering, geolocation, and more, while learning to teach these concepts effectively. With a focus on CSTA K-12 CS Standards, this 660-minute course equips you to prepare pre-college learners for their digital world. Subscription options available.
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- Level Foundation
- المدة 2 ساعات hours
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Creating compliant material is the right thing to do, but it can seem like an expensive undertaking and an enormously high bar to meet. In this project you will become familiar with Federal 508 compliance standards and how they can become an asset to an organization’s goal of connecting individuals with content in a meaningful way. You will also gain hands-on experience with a no-cost technique for one component of accessibility testing. That is testing for color blindness accessibility with the Colorblindly extension in your Chrome Browser. By the end of this project, you will be able to confidently leverage Chrome browser extensions to test information accessibility, so that you can ensure that as much of your audience as possible can intuitively take in and interact with your organization’s information. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.Auto Summary
Discover how to ensure 508 compliance and accessibility in Chrome extensions with this beginner-level Coursera course. Focused on personal development, this 120-minute course simplifies the process of creating compliant materials. Free subscription available. Ideal for learners seeking to enhance their knowledge in accessible digital content creation.
Introduction to Microsoft Office
By the end of this project you will have a beginning understanding of Microsoft Outlook. You will know how to recognize the layout of Microsoft Outlook, how to create, reply, forward, and place attachments on emails. You will learn how to set up a filing system to organize and file your emails for easy access. Finally you will learn to set up your calendar and create meetings and invite others to those meetings.
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- Level Foundation
- المدة 1 ساعات hours
- الطبع بواسطة Coursera
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By the end of this project you will have a beginning understanding of Microsoft Outlook. You will know how to recognize the layout of Microsoft Outlook, how to create, reply, forward, and place attachments on emails. You will learn how to set up a filing system to organize and file your emails for easy access. Finally you will learn to set up your calendar and create meetings and invite others to those meetings.الوحدات
Your Learning Journey
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Plugin
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- Assess Your Knowledge
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- Introduction to Microsoft Office
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- Project Overview
Auto Summary
Discover the essentials of Microsoft Outlook in this beginner-friendly course focused on personal development. Guided by Coursera, you'll learn to navigate Outlook's layout, manage emails, organize your inbox, and effectively use the calendar for meetings. This comprehensive introduction can be completed in just one hour and is available for free, making it ideal for anyone looking to enhance their email and organizational skills.
Monthly Subscription Starting at AED 99 + VAT
- Level Foundation
- المدة 7 ساعات hours
- الطبع بواسطة Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Welcome! Are you looking to learn more about how to conduct scientific research, specifically in an urban or local context? Then you have found the right course: Studying Cities: Social Science Methods for Urban Research by the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam. During the course you will gain more insight in the different steps of the research cycle, and build a firm foundation for your own future research endeavors. Before any (urban) researcher may start conducting research, it is crucial to understand the different aspects and elements of doing research. The course will guide you through the various steps of the research cycle to provide you with the basic knowledge necessary for any Master-level program, but with a special focus on urban and local development. The course starts with introductory lectures on the problem statement, research objective, empirical cycle and the research question. Over the following weeks you will also learn the components and criteria of the theoretical framework and operationalization, research strategies, and the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. You will be provided with the necessary tools to understand and evaluate these key steps in scientific research by watching video lectures with in-video questions and by completing the final peer review, which will use all the elements you have learnt throughout the course.الوحدات
Welcome to the Course
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- Introduction to Studying Cities: Social Science Methods for Urban Research
Pre-test
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- Pre-test
Problem Statement, Research Objective, Question
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- Introduce Yourself and Meet Your Peers
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- Introduction to Week
- Problem Statement
- Research Objective / Empirical Cycle
- Research Question
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- Reading assignment: Problem Statement (video)
- Reading assignment: Research objective (video)
Testimonial
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- Testimonial 1 - Introduction to Julia's research
Quiz
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- Module 1 - Quiz
Theoretical Framework and Operationalization
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- Introduction Video
- Knowing What is Known: Literature Review
- Conceptualisation
- Conceptual Framework
- Operationalization
Discussion
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- Conceptualization: do we all have the same understanding?
Introduction to Week
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- Introduction to Research Strategies
- Strategy Validity and Reliability
Research Strategies Available to You
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Videos
- Surveys
- Experiments
- Quasi Experiments
- Case Studies - Defining a case study and when to use it
- Case Studies - Types of case studies
- Desk Research
Testimonial
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2
Videos
2
Videos
- Hanna's Testimonial: Researching commuting to work by bicycle in Rotterdam.
- Hanna's Testimonial: Choosing a suitable strategy
Quiz
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Module 2 and 3 - Quiz
Data collection
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9
Videos
9
Videos
- Introduction Video
- Sampling
- Primary Quantitative Data Collection
- Secondary Quantitative Data Collection
- Primary Qualitative Data Collection - Part One
- Primary Qualitative Data Collection - Part Two
- Constructing a Questionnaire
- Administering a Questionnaire
- Preparing and Conducting Interviews
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
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10
Videos
10
Videos
- Introduction Video
- Qualitative Data Analysis: Data Management
- Qualitative Data Analysis: Introduction to Coding
- Qualitative Data Analysis: Tips for Coding
- Qualitative Data Analysis: How to analyse the data
- Qualitative Data Analysis: Reliability and Validity
- Data Analysis: Primary Quantitative Data Analysis
- Primary and Secondary Quantitative Data Preparation
- Data Analysis: Secondary Quantitative Data Analysis
- Data Analysis: Quantitative Data Analysis
Quiz
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Quiz - Module 4 and 5
Post-test
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Post-test (self-assessment)
Peer review assignment
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1
PeerReview
1
Peer Review
- Final Assignment: Evaluation of a Research Proposal
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Discover the essentials of urban research with "Studying Cities: Social Science Methods for Urban Research" by Erasmus University Rotterdam. This foundational course covers the research cycle, from problem statements to data analysis, tailored for urban development. Ideal for aspiring researchers, it offers video lectures, interactive questions, and peer reviews over 420 minutes. Available on Coursera with a starter subscription.