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Create Visually Engaging Presentations using Microsoft Sway
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 3 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة Coursera Project Network
  • Offered by

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Do you want to wow your audience with interactive, engaging presentations? With Microsoft Sway, you’re no longer limited to picking pre-designed templates that make your presentations look like everyone else’s. You don’t have to have any design skills to transform and showcase information in modern, interactive, and attention-getting ways. Sway lets you customize styles to your liking, and intelligently suggests unique styles that suit your presentation! This Guided Project, "Create Visually Engaging Presentations using Microsoft Sway'' is for creative-minded, keen learners, who want to improve their business communication and delivery effectiveness, or simply learn something new. In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create a new Sway, add content to a Sway, customize a Sway using different design elements, and share a finished Sway on the web. After completing this project, you’ll be able to create modern, professional-looking presentations for any occasion in minutes using Sway! Sway is free to use for anyone with a Microsoft Account (Hotmail, Live, or Outlook.com). If you don’t already have an account, you'll learn how to create one here. Are you excited to make an impression on your next presentation? Then what are you waiting for? Let's get started!

الوحدات

Your Learning Journey

    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Plugin
    • 1 Lab
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Assess Your Knowledge

1 Labs

  • Create Visually Engaging Presentations using Microsoft Sway

2 Readings

  • Project Overview
  • Additional Resources

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Enhance your presentation skills with "Create Visually Engaging Presentations using Microsoft Sway." This 2-hour beginner course on Coursera, led by expert instructors, focuses on using Microsoft Sway to design interactive, professional presentations. Ideal for creative learners aiming to improve business communication, the course covers creating, customizing, and sharing presentations. Accessible for free, it requires no prior design skills and includes guidance on setting up a Microsoft account. Perfect for anyone looking to impress with modern presentation techniques.

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Autodesk Generative Design for Manufacturing

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Quickly generate high-performing design alternatives—many that you’d never think of on your own—from a single idea. With generative design, there is no single solution. Instead, there are multiple great solutions. You choose the design that best fits your needs. Generative design is a design exploration process. Designers or engineers input design goals into the software, along with parameters such as performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, and cost constraints. The software explores all the possible permutations of a solution, quickly generating design alternatives. It tests and learns from each iteration what works and what doesn’t. Through this specialization, you’ll learn the foundations of product innovation and generative design while developing your skills in Autodesk® Fusion 360™. Plus, by completing this Specialization, you’ll unlock an additional Autodesk Credential as further recognition of your success! The Autodesk Credential comes with a digital badge and certificate, which you can add to your resume and share on social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. You’ll need a paid subscription to Fusion 360 to complete the assignments in this course. Be sure to review your access or payment options before enrolling. Looking for Autodesk Fusion 360 certification prep courses? Check out additional learning resources to help you uplevel your skills.

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Discover the innovative world of Autodesk Generative Design for Manufacturing with this expert-level course on Coursera. Focused on personal development, the course guides you through the process of generating high-performing design alternatives using Autodesk Fusion 360™. Perfect for designers and engineers, you'll learn to input design goals, explore design permutations, and achieve product innovation. Completing the course grants an additional Autodesk Credential, enhancing your resume with a digital badge and certificate. Note that a paid subscription to Fusion 360 is required. Unlock your potential in generative design today!

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Sustainable Cities
  • Level Professional
  • المدة
  • الطبع بواسطة Johns Hopkins University
  • Offered by

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This Specialization is intended for individuals and organizations interested in developing skills and strategies to create and support sustainable cities. Through these four courses, you will gain a strong understanding of the tools and concepts needed to succeed in reaching this goal. Successful case studies of smart growth applications will be evaluated and assessed for multiple cities throughout the United States. The concentration will provide students with an introduction to sustainable regional principles and evaluate regional transportation system issues. This is achieved through dynamic video lectures, with many pictures, practical case studies and the evaluation of practices for success. Considerations for smart urban planning, growth, and lifestyle to include strategies for creating equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities are also evaluated. The concentration will also include evaluations of best practices for community involvement, strategies for growth priorities. Plus, green space protection, parks, sourcing quality food from local growers, providing a spectrum of housing availability, integration of office, retail & housing spaces, and the reduction in the urban pollution footprint. Includes focus on the use of recycled, reusable, green & sustainable products, lower carbon footprint, green buildings, applications of renewable solar & wind energy, low impact storm water management practices, water resource management, resource conservation & more.

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"Sustainable Cities" is a professional-level course on Coursera, designed for individuals and organizations aiming to develop strategies for creating sustainable urban environments. It covers smart growth, regional transportation, urban planning, community involvement, and green practices through dynamic video lectures and case studies. Ideal for those interested in personal development within urban sustainability, the course offers practical insights into equitable, healthy, and eco-friendly city planning. Subscription options are available, with a focus on actionable learning for real-world application.

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Creating and Managing Teams Sites and Channels

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The learner will have developed a basic but working instance of Microsoft Teams with a simple configuration of Teams sites and channels. The main focus of the course will be to explain and demonstrate how the sites and channels are used as a structure to plan, execute, monitor, and control work in an organization, using Teams tools: chat, conversation, document sharing, planning and executing online discussions and meetings, and controlling these events for maximum effectiveness. The learner’s template may then be further built-out and elaborated in an organizational environment into a production-ready instance of MS Teams for effective team-based collaboration and communication. Given the explosive growth and adoption of MS Teams globally, the course will equip the learner with both a valuable overall perspective on and understanding of the components and uses of the MS Teams with a focus on Teams sites and channels as the organizational shell within which actual work is planned and accomplished.

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"Creating and Managing Teams Sites and Channels" is a professional-level course designed to help learners develop a functional Microsoft Teams instance, focusing on the configuration of sites and channels for organizational tasks. Led by Coursera, this 120-hour course covers chat, document sharing, and meeting management to enhance team collaboration and communication. Ideal for those looking to leverage MS Teams for effective work execution, it offers valuable insights into maximizing the platform's capabilities. Available under the Starter subscription.

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Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة
  • الطبع بواسطة Google Cloud
  • Offered by

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The Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine specialization will teach you how to implement solutions using Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, including building, scheduling, load balancing, and monitoring workloads, as well as providing for discovery of services, managing role-based access control and security, and providing persistent storage to these applications.

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The Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine course offers an in-depth exploration into the deployment and management of containerized applications using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). This specialized program covers essential skills such as building, scheduling, load balancing, and monitoring workloads. Additionally, it delves into service discovery, role-based access control, security management, and persistent storage solutions for applications. Offered by Coursera, this foundational course is designed for individuals looking to enhance their personal development in cloud computing and container orchestration. The course content is structured to provide practical knowledge and hands-on experience, making it suitable for beginners or those new to Google Kubernetes Engine. Learners can choose from flexible subscription options, including Starter and Professional plans, to access the course material. This course is ideal for IT professionals, developers, and system administrators aiming to leverage GKE for efficient application management and deployment. Join now to master the tools and techniques essential for modern cloud infrastructure.

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Home-Based Child Care
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة
  • الطبع بواسطة The State University of New York
  • Offered by

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This series of courses is intended to provide learners with the tools to develop and operate a home-based childcare center. Stages of child development, best practices to stimulate learning, important safety measures, and business fundamentals are introduced.

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This engaging course on Home-Based Child Care, offered by Coursera, focuses on equipping learners with essential tools to develop and manage a home-based childcare center. Covering stages of child development, effective learning stimulation practices, crucial safety measures, and business fundamentals, this foundational course is perfect for individuals looking to enter the childcare domain. Subscription options start at the Starter level, making it accessible for beginners in personal development.

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Build Inclusive User Personas in Miro

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By the end of this project, you will be able to create an inclusive user persona that will help you leverage the opportunity to include customers and avoid excluding them from a brand experience. To do this, you will work on a project that will help you understand the benefits and use cases for inclusive personas while you gain hands-on experience building one in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. 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.

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Unlock the power of inclusive design with the "Build Inclusive User Personas in Miro" course, expertly crafted to elevate your personal development skills. Guided by Coursera, this professional-level course spans 120 minutes, offering a concise yet comprehensive journey into creating user personas that embrace diversity and inclusivity. Ideal for learners in the North America region, this project-based course delivers practical experience with Miro, a leading online visual collaboration platform. You'll discover the strategic advantages of inclusive personas and learn to effectively integrate them into your brand experience, ensuring no customer is left behind. Whether you're seeking to refine your professional skills or enhance your team's collaborative efforts, this course provides the foundational knowledge and hands-on practice you need. With a convenient Starter subscription, it’s the perfect opportunity to champion inclusivity in user experience design. Join us and become adept at building user personas that truly represent and include all customers.

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How to Create Video for Online Courses
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 6 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة The University of Edinburgh
  • Offered by

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Increasingly, as education pivots online, educators are looking to filmmaking as a way of creating new and exciting content. On this two-week course from the University of Edinburgh, you’ll learn how to turn your mobile phone into a full-featured video production suite to create effective and engaging online course videos and media. Develop the skills to script, storyboard, and film your videos. To create engaging videos that complement your online learning materials while also making the best use of time, equipment, and cost, you need to plan your content and filming schedule effectively. You’ll start this course by looking at the pre-production process, including writing a script and creating a storyboard. Through these steps, you can make sure that you’re using the right shots while addressing your aims and refining your message. Then, you’ll move on to production, learning how to set up your equipment and capture different shot types through a range of practical activities. Dive into post-production to prepare and edit your footage. During the second week of this course, you’ll explore the post-production process, from preparing your footage to basic editing techniques. Using free editing software that’s readily available, you’ll gain practical tips to get the most from your post-production. Explore the legalities around accessibility and copyright for your online learning materials. Making online learning materials accessible is actually a legal requirement, and best practice for offering education opportunities to as broad a range of learning needs as possible. This course will guide you through the importance of captions and transcripts, as well as how to use and correctly attribute third-party content and open educational resources.

الوحدات

Course overview

    • 1 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Share your previous experience

1 Videos

  • Course introduction

2 Readings

  • Welcome to the course
  • Meet the team

Pre-production

    • 9 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check 1

9 Readings

  • Why and when to use video
  • Common video and shot types
  • Scriptwriting and storyboarding
  • Open educational resources (OER)
  • How to attribute third-party content
  • Create a script and storyboard
  • How to prepare for filming: Location
  • How to prepare for filming: Equipment
  • How to prepare for filming: Time management

Production

    • 3 Videos
    • 4 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check 2

1 Discussions

  • Share your experience

3 Videos

  • Welcome to Week 2
  • The importance of audio
  • Setting up your camera and equipment

4 Readings

  • The importance of audio
  • Find examples of shot types
  • Record a video
  • Production in practice

Post-production

    • 1 Videos
    • 4 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check 3

1 Discussions

  • Share your video

1 Videos

  • Video editing demo

4 Readings

  • Introduction to free editing software
  • Prepare your footage
  • Accessibility: captions and open licensing
  • Course summary

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Discover how to create engaging online course videos with your mobile phone in this two-week course from the University of Edinburgh. Perfect for educators, you'll learn scripting, storyboarding, filming, and editing techniques, using free editing software. Additionally, understand the legalities of accessibility and copyright to ensure your materials are inclusive and compliant. Ideal for anyone in personal development, this foundational course is available on Coursera with a Starter subscription.

Monthly Subscription Starting at AED 99 + VAT

Suicide Prevention
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 7 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة Wesleyan University
  • Offered by

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This course will explore the science of suicide research, prevention, and intervention. The field of suicide research is young and knowledge is rapidly changing. Topics will include terminology, epidemiology, historical and contemporary theories of suicide, modern approaches to suicide research, empirically supported approaches to prevention and intervention, the lived experiences of those with suicidal thoughts and attempts. Note: this course is not designed to address personal experiences with suicidal thoughts, suicide loss, or mental illness nor will it address assessing suicide risk among friends or family members. If you are thinking about suicide or are worried about someone else – please contact your local suicide prevention crisis center as soon as possible. Your life matters and help is available. Each module will include a quiz. The last module’s quiz will be cumulative.

الوحدات

Welcome and Caveats

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Suicide Prevention

Terminology

    • 2 Videos
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2 Videos

  • Terminology
  • Words to Ditch

Epidemiology

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Epidemiology

An Understanding of the Data

    • 2 Videos
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2 Videos

  • Suicide in the USA
  • Rates, Rank, and Raw Data

Suicidal Thoughts and Attempts

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Suicidal Thoughts and Attempts

Module Activities

    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Quiz 1

1 Readings

  • Readings

History and Theory

    • 3 Videos
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3 Videos

  • History
  • Why Do We Need a Theory?
  • Two Theories of Suicide

Suicide Research – Challenges, Methods, and Ethical Considerations

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Challenges in Suicide Research

Module Activities

    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Quiz 2

1 Readings

  • Readings and Video

Public Awareness

    • 2 Videos
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2 Videos

  • Myths and Facts
  • Public Health Interventions

Public Service Announcements

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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2 Videos

  • Introduction to PSAs
  • PSA Reflections

1 Readings

  • PSA videos (YouTube)

Module Activities

    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Quiz 3

1 Readings

  • Reading and Activity

Interventions

    • 4 Videos
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4 Videos

  • Interventions Overview
  • Brief Interventions
  • Moderate-Length Interventions
  • Long-term Interventions

Conclusions

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Concluding Thoughts

Module Activities

    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Quiz 4

1 Readings

  • Reading and Video Clips

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Explore the science of suicide research, prevention, and intervention with this foundational course in Personal Development. Led by Coursera, the course covers terminology, theories, research approaches, and prevention strategies. Spanning 420 minutes, it includes quizzes for each module, with a cumulative quiz at the end. Available through Starter and Professional subscriptions, it’s ideal for those seeking to understand suicide prevention at a fundamental level.

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Privacy in the Western World
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 7 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة EIT Digital
  • Offered by

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Welcome to this course about privacy, We are thrilled to see that you are interested and will provide you with a comprehensive study of this intriguiging subject. We hope this course will enthuse you to look further into privacy and personal data regulation. Especially in the light of recent events it becomes more important to know about your (alleged!?) rights and freedoms. After showing you a number of interesting examples of privacy in recent events, this course continues to provide you with an historic introduction, and varying cases and court decisions. It will guide you through the cultural and legal changes in perception of privacy over time. Sometimes with a more technological perspective. Notably, in the Western world differences have accumulated over time and the differences between the USA and Europe will be explained extensively in the follow-up courses. Through video lectures and quizzes we endeavor to build a solid foundation for you to construct a well-founded opinion on privacy. Last but not least we sincerely hope you enjoy the course! Prof.mr.dr. Jan Smits

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Introduction

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Introduction

Social media as an example to why privacy laws matter

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Interview with the vice-president communication of Facebook

1 Readings

  • Addicted to fake news: violation of human dignity

China's privacy trade-offs through the eyes of Westerners

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Along the banks of the Yangtze - China's privacy trade-off

Privacy issues in the USA

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Privacy issues in the USA

Back to the source: Libraries

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Library of the University of Utrecht

Back to the source: Archives

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • The Dutch National Archive

Short recap

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • A historic perspective

Interview with prof.dr. Bert-Jaap Koops

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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2 Videos

  • Privacy model of prof.dr. Bert Jaap Koops from his interview
  • Additional interview with prof.dr. Bert-Jaap Koops

1 Readings

  • Privacy Model Prof. Bert-Jaap Koops

Diving into privacy

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Reviewing the interview

Obama's visit

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Obama visiting the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe

Plakkaat van Verlatinghe

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Plakkaat van Verlatinghe

1 Readings

  • (Modern) Translation full text Plakkaat van Verlatinghe

Declaration of Independence

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Declaration of Independence

1 Readings

  • Full text Declaration of Independence

The Resemblance by Motely

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Motely - The Rise of the Dutch Republic

The Dutch and the American

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Comparing the Plakkaat and Declaration

Introduction

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • The need for treaties

Red cross

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Origins of the Red Cross

International TeleCommunication Union

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Development of Telecommunications

Universal Postal Union

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Pre-paid postal system

Paris Cable Protection Treaty

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Protecting submarine cables (the internet!)

Berne Convention

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Rights for literary and artistic work

1 Readings

  • Full text Berne Convention

Another treat(y)

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Recapping the individual treaties

International court of justice (1913)

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Arbitration between countries

League of Nations (1919)

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Countries around the table

The Atlantic Charter (1941) and Eleanor Roosevelt

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Building a legacy in WWII

UN declaration of Human rights (1948)

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • UN Declaration of Human Rights

1 Readings

  • Full text UN Declaration of Human Rights

International Convenant on Civil and Political rights (1966)

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Protection from your government

Rights and Collaboration

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • The 20th century's big steps

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Privacy Principles

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • The eight principles

1 Readings

  • Necessity of privacy protection

International criminal court 2002

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • International Criminal Court 2002

1 Readings

  • Understanding the ICC

Budapest cybercrime treaty

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Budapest Cybercrime treaty

1 Readings

  • How effective is Budapest treaty?

Protecting privacy

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Last practice

Examination

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Final exam

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"Privacy in the Western World" is a foundational course in Personal Development, led by Prof. Jan Smits on Coursera. It offers a comprehensive study on privacy, exploring historical, cultural, and legal aspects, with a focus on recent events and technological perspectives. Through engaging video lectures and quizzes, learners can build a solid understanding of privacy issues, particularly in the USA and Europe. The course spans 420 minutes and is available through Starter and Professional subscriptions, ideal for individuals looking to deepen their knowledge of personal data regulation.

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