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Communication Strategies for a Virtual Age
Communication has changed! The traditional rules for speaking and presenting, meeting coordination, influencing people, negotiating and selling ideas no longer apply in a world of skype, messenger, video and teleconference.
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8 hours
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English

Promote your Scientific Results
Whether you are a member of the natural or human science community, if you are a PhD student, professor, part of an academic department or international research team, or self-employed and you wish to showcase your work to a wider audience then this is the perfect course for you. You will learn how to promote your work to professional peers, the general public, as well as the media.
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16 hours
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English

High-Impact Business Writing
Effective writing is a powerful tool in the business environment. Learn how to articulate your thoughts in a clear and concise manner that will allow your ideas to be better understood by your readers. Improve your business writing skill by learning to select and use appropriate formats for your audience, use the correct medium and adjust your writing style accordingly, as well as identify your objective and communicate it clearly.
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7 hours
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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. This short course is designed to equip you with those exact skills that you will need in order to be successful in this field. Throughout this course you will learn how to create and deliver a presentation that will leave your audience well informed and impressed.
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3 hours
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Soft Skills: Present with Purpose
This short course will teach you how to create and deliver presentations that leave an effective and lasting impact on your audience!
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Public Speaking
Build confidence as a speaker by learning how to use simple tools and skills to prepare and deliver memorable presentations.
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30
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Professional Business Presentations
Professional Business Presentations, will dive into the world of presenting information both in written and verbal form. This course discusses how to effectively create presentations with quality formatting, the proper design elements and organization. The learner will identify the proper presentation format and software for their audience. Learners will have the opportunity to utilize the skills gained to create an engaging PowerPoint presentation.
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25
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English

Internet of Things Capstone V2: Build a Mobile Surveillance System
In the Capstone project for the Internet of Things specialization, you will design and build your own system that uses at least 2 sensors, at least 1 communication protocol and at least 1 actuator. You will have a chance to revisit and apply what you have learned in our courses to achieve a robust, practical and/or fun-filled project. We absolutely encourage you to design whatever you can think up! This is your chance to be creative or to explore an idea that you have had. But if you don’t have your own idea, we provide the description of a surveillance system, for you to build.
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5 hours
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English

Materials Science for Technological Application
This Specialization will provide you with an introductory knowledge and understanding of key concepts in Materials Science. Periods of our civilization have names associated with materials – stone age, bronze age, iron age, and the silicon age. Materials impact all aspects of your daily life and will continue to do so in the future. The more we understand materials, the more we imagine the future with fantastic devices and advancements enabled by materials. This initial specialization introduces a limited number of material science and engineering concepts.
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Advanced Speaking and Listening Project
Learners will present a well-organized academic speech on a topic in an academic field of the learner's choice. The learner will need to recall all of the skills learned in the previous three courses and complete several steps to complete the project. The learner will choose an academic topic and will then need to do some research, interview a couple of experts in the field, create visual elements, and record a video of the presentation. The presenter will use techniques for preparing and practicing a presentation and demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal skills.
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20 hours
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English

Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control
This Specialization provides a rigorous treatment of spatial motion and the dynamics of rigid bodies, employing representations from modern screw theory and the product of exponentials formula. Students with a freshman-level engineering background will quickly learn to apply these tools to analysis, planning, and control of robot motion. Students' understanding of the mathematics of robotics will be solidified by writing robotics software.
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Transformer Models and BERT Model - 简体中文
本课程向您介绍 Transformer 架构和 Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) 模型。您将了解 Transformer 架构的主要组成部分,例如自注意力机制,以及该架构如何用于构建 BERT 模型。您还将了解可以使用 BERT 的不同任务,例如文本分类、问答和自然语言推理。完成本课程估计需要大约 45 分钟。
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People and Soft Skills for Professional and Personal Success
Knowledge of soft skills or people Skills are increasingly coming into focus and being recognized as critical for success - hence at IBM we call them "Success Skills", and categorize them as "Hot Skills". A research by Harvard University, Carnegie Foundation and Stanford Research Center has concluded that 85% of job success comes from having well developed soft skills and people skills,and only 15% of job success comes from Technical skills and knowledge (hard skills). This specialization is aimed at helping you develop these powerful people and soft skills and behaviors that include: creat
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Solving Complex Problems
SOLVING COMPLEX PROBLEMS will teach you revolutionary new problem-solving skills. Involving lectures from over 50 experts from all faculties at Macquarie University, we look at solving complex problems in a way that has never been done before. Please note that this specialisation will be discontinued on Monday 30 September 2024.
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Becoming Part of the Globalised Workplace
The final course aims to build learners’ confidence and adaptability when communicating in cross-cultural environments as they assume leadership responsibility to communicate influence in persuasive workplace contexts. The course focuses on enhancing learners’ professional persona for skilful engagement and intercultural communication with stakeholders within and beyond the organization, including cross-departmental work teams, clients and external partners.
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11 hours
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English

Health for All Through Primary Health Care
This course explores why primary health care is central for achieving Health for All.
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11 hours
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English

Prezi pour les petites entreprises
Ce projet va vous permettre de découvrir Prezi, plateforme en ligne de conception de présentations et de contenu Marketing en tout genre. Vous découvrirez les fonctionnalités de Prezi et serez en mesure de créer divers visuels attractifs et animés pour votre petite entreprise. Ce projet est destiné aux gérants de petites entreprises qui souhaiteraient apprendre à utiliser Prezi pour créer du contenu marketing afin de booster les ventes et la notoriété de la marque.
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3 hours
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French

Human-Computer Interaction II: Cognition, Context & Culture
Get into the user’s mind and understand the role of mental models and representations, then investigate how to design interfaces that integrate with and influence the world around us.
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How to create presentations using Canva
In this project you will learn how to make presentations using Canva. Canva is a free web design service where you have a wide variety of tools to design all kinds of media you need. Canva is a great option for those looking for an easy-to-use platform to create presentations for corporate, school, and college classes. Canva has many elements that are free and gives you a lot of freedom when it comes to designing. Canva is an extremely useful tool for those who are just starting out and even becomes a very good tool for those who have been designing in more advanced programs for years.
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3 hours
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Transformer Models and BERT Model - Italiano
Questo corso ti introduce all'architettura Transformer e al modello BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). Scopri i componenti principali dell'architettura Transformer, come il meccanismo di auto-attenzione, e come viene utilizzata per creare il modello BERT. Imparerai anche le diverse attività per le quali può essere utilizzato il modello BERT, come la classificazione del testo, la risposta alle domande e l'inferenza del linguaggio naturale. Si stima che il completamento di questo corso richieda circa 45 minuti.
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1 hour
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English

The Ethical Leader
This aims primarily at post-baccalaureate students interested in leadership theory and ethical leadership. The first part of this course introduces students to the classical literature in philosophical ethics, including consequentialist, regularian, deontological, and virtue theory approaches. This includes exploration of the ethical responsibilities leaders have toward themselves, corporations, the government, and the public.
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56 hours
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Introduction to Academic Writing
Welcome to the Introduction to Academic Writing course! By the end of this course, you will gain an in-depth understanding of reading and writing as essential skills to conduct robust and critical research. This course introduces you to critical reading and writing skills within the conventions of academic writing. In this course, you will learn to effectively communicate your research questions and findings to an interested audience using reading and writing skills.
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16 hours
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Software Design Threats and Mitigations
The design step in developing software has some unique characteristics. First of all, it’s the only step where drawing pictures of things is the norm. Why is that? What do pictures do that other representations cannot do? Pictures have varying levels of detail; pictures have context. Pictures…paint a picture. Why are these things important? In this course, too, we begin looking at other disciplines (building architecture is a favorite one) for lessons on design.
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19 hours
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English

Transformer Models and BERT Model - 日本語版
このコースでは、Transformer アーキテクチャと Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT)モデルの概要について説明します。セルフアテンション機構をはじめとする Transformer アーキテクチャの主要コンポーネントと、それが BERT モデルの構築にどのように使用されているのかについて学習します。さらに、テキスト分類、質問応答、自然言語推論など、BERT を適用可能なその他のタスクについても学習します。このコースの推定所要時間は約 45 分です。
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Design corporate presentations with Piktochart
At the end of this project, you will have all the basic skills to create a professional business presentation with Piktochart, an online tool for creating and editing infographics and Marketing visuals of all kinds. You will be able to discover in detail the different features of the platform, and will be able to use its tools to create a professional, understandable and fun presentation.
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3 hours
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English