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Preventing Chronic Pain: A Human Systems Approach
Chronic pain is at epidemic levels and has become the highest-cost condition in health care.
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44 hours
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English
Training and Practicing in English Public Speaking
Professor Zhang is Central South University’s top training coach in English speaking and interpreting contests and has engaged in teaching and research on English speaking and interpreting as well as competition training for more than ten years. This is a course which improves your comprehensive skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking: you will overcome your bad listening habits and advance listening skills; you will correct your pronunciation and improve language quality and delivery; you will collect and analyze materials quickly and efficiently; you will enhance wr
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10 hours
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English
Unsupervised Algorithms in Machine Learning
One of the most useful areas in machine learning is discovering hidden patterns from unlabeled data. Add the fundamentals of this in-demand skill to your Data Science toolkit. In this course, we will learn selected unsupervised learning methods for dimensionality reduction, clustering, and learning latent features. We will also focus on real-world applications such as recommender systems with hands-on examples of product recommendation algorithms. Prior coding or scripting knowledge is required. We will be utilizing Python extensively throughout the course.
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38 hours
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English
Create a Project Management Tracker using Microsoft Excel
As a small business owner, budgets are often tight for the "extras." Often times, this means that some of those high-value marketing tools cannot be offered. Small business owners should turn to free or low-cost alternatives. An easy-to-use and manageable alternative is a free online version of Microsoft Excel from Microsoft Office 365. In this project, you will learn how to create a simple project management tracking sheet. At the end of this project, you will have the Excel project management tracking template for the next presentation of your development project.
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3 hours
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English
Python Basics: Interacting with the Internet
If you do not yet code and want to learn, this course is a great place to start. It will teach you how to use existing Python code to interact with data on the Internet in fun new ways. Instruction focuses on the conceptual basics of the programming language as it relates to working with online data. You'll be introduced to Python arithmetic operators, variables, values, and modules. At a higher level, you'll experience what an API is and how it works by playing with cat memes. Separate from the technical part of coding, there's the psychological part.
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9 hours
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English
Advanced Chemistry
A chemistry course to cover selected topics covered in advanced high school chemistry courses, correlating to the standard topics as established by the American Chemical Society. Prerequisites: Students should have a background in basic chemistry including nomenclature, reactions, stoichiometry, molarity and thermochemistry.
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17 hours
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English
Design and innovation of business model
The core of Business Model Design lies in skills and leadership of the entrepreneurial manager. It requires a disciplined approach to seeking opportunities, as well as gathering and aligning resources to achieve important goals. In this course, students will strengthen two important skills: intuition and visual thinking, while applying quantitative methods learned in other courses, such as Finance, Economics and Financial Intelligence. The focus of this course is on four pillars: 1. Observation as a key element to discover business patterns. 2.
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27 hours
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English
Financial Markets and Instruments
This course is part of a Specialization titled “Strategy and Finance for a Lifecycle of a Social Business”. The beauty of a modern decision-making framework is that it can be used to understand value creation at any level – the individual or business or societal. The applications however become increasingly complex as your lens expands from the individual to the corporate/nonprofit to the global society. There are two building blocks of modern decision making – time value of money and risk. This is because all decisions are made with consequences for the future which, in turn is uncertain.
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18 hours
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English
Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan
In their ambition to capture “real life,” Japanese painters, poets, novelists and photographers of the nineteenth century collaborated in ways seldom explored by their European contemporaries.
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30 hours
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English
Activity Design with PhET Simulations for STEM Education
PhET Interactive Simulations ( https://phet.colorado.edu/ ), a project of the University of Colorado Boulder, provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations for use across, primary, secondary, and higher education levels. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness.
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23 hours
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English
Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics
In this course students learn the basic concepts of acoustics and electronics and how they can applied to understand musical sound and make music with electronic instruments. Topics include: sound waves, musical sound, basic electronics, and applications of these basic principles in amplifiers and speaker design.
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14 hours
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English
Automating the Deployment of Networks with Terraform
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you create a Terraform configuration with a module to automate the deployment of a custom network with resources.
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1 hour
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The Politics of Skepticism
This is a course about the history of Skepticism from the ancient Greeks to today, with special attention to the political ramifications of questioning man's ability to know the world and himself with any certainty. We will discuss the debates raging between Plato and the Sophists, the rise of Christianity in the Roman world, and the so-called 'Skeptical Crisis' of the Renaissance as well as Pierre Bayle's Skepticism and David Hume's.
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14 hours
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English
Simulation of Drum-Buffer-Rope Control Using R Simmer
Welcome to "Simulation of Drum-Buffer-Rope Production Control Using R-Simmer".
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3 hours
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English
Interpretable machine learning applications: Part 5
You will be able to use the Aequitas Tool as a tool to measure and detect bias in the outcome of a machine learning prediction model. As a use case, we will be working with the dataset about recidivism, i.e., the likelihood for a former imprisoned person to commit another offence within the first two years, since release from prison. The guided project will be making use of the COMPAS dataset, which already includes predicted as well as actual outcomes.
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3 hours
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English
APIs Explorer: Cloud Storage
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you will use the APIs Explorer tool to create Cloud Storage buckets, upload data to the bucket, and remove content from buckets.
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1 hour
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Instructional Planning with Genially
Genially is “the tool that brings content to life.” Genially allows you to map out a learning journey for your students using high interest images and interactive tools. But did you know that Genially is also a wonderful tool for organizing your lessons and units. With Genially, you can plan and organize your units in one central place, simplifying your planning process with templates created with teachers in mind!
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3 hours
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English
Measuring the Success of a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety VI)
How will you know if your patient safety and quality project is meeting its objectives? Peter Drucker once said “What gets measured, gets managed.” In this course, students will learn why measurement is critical to quality improvement work. Equally important, they will learn which data sources provide the most meaningful information and tools for how and where to locate them. Finally, students will learn how to interpret data from their patient safety and quality projects to guide and modify them during implementation to maximize their chances of making a difference for patients.
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6 hours
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English
Power and Foreign Policy in International Relations
Welcome to the Power and Foreign Policy in International Relations course! This course acquaints you with how power matters in the conduct of international relations and how it affects the strategies and tactics of a nation-state in dealing with other nation-states. It demonstrates the link between a country’s ranking in the international system and the means and methods it adopts to deal with the rest of the world.
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16 hours
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English
EDIVET: Do you have what it takes to be a veterinarian?
This course is for anyone interested in learning more about Veterinary Medicine, giving a “taster” of courses covered in the first year of a veterinary degree and an idea of what it is like to study Veterinary Medicine.
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9 hours
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English
Introduction to D3.js
This Guided Project, Introduction to D3.js is for those who want to learn about D3.js which is a JavaScript library for producing SVG-based, dynamic, interactive data visualizations in web browsers. In this 2-hour-long project-based course, you will get to know different SVG elements, build SVG-based webpages using D3.js, Integrate data into the SVG elements, and build simple data visualizations using D3.js. This project is unique because you will learn to build simple SVG-based data representations from scratch using D3.js.
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4 hours
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English
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a comprehensive course that explores various aspects of CRM, from data-driven strategies to customer segmentation and loyalty programs. The course is designed in three stages, each building upon the previous one, and includes self-paced learning with pre-recorded video lectures, exercises, and interactive quizzes.
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9 hours
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Code Free Data Science
The Code Free Data Science class is designed for learners seeking to gain or expand their knowledge in the area of Data Science. Participants will receive the basic training in effective predictive analytic approaches accompanying the growing discipline of Data Science without any programming requirements. Machine Learning methods will be presented by utilizing the KNIME Analytics Platform to discover patterns and relationships in data. Predicting future trends and behaviors allows for proactive, data-driven decisions.
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14 hours
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English
Regression Modeling in Practice
This course focuses on one of the most important tools in your data analysis arsenal: regression analysis. Using either SAS or Python, you will begin with linear regression and then learn how to adapt when two variables do not present a clear linear relationship. You will examine multiple predictors of your outcome and be able to identify confounding variables, which can tell a more compelling story about your results.
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11 hours
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English
Calculus for Machine Learning and Data Science
Newly updated for 2024! Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data Science is a foundational online program created by DeepLearning.AI and taught by Luis Serrano. In machine learning, you apply math concepts through programming. And so, in this specialization, you’ll apply the math concepts you learn using Python programming in hands-on lab exercises.
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26 hours
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English