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Researcher Management and Leadership Training
This course is for early career researchers and mentors who believe that modern scientific careers require management skills and want to be research leaders. This curriculum gives you skills to effectively implement funded projects, thereby enhancing your career success. Research leaders take on a number of new roles, rights, and responsibilities--as scientific leaders, financial administrators, managers, and mentors. In this course, we explain how to optimize the people, teams, projects, and finances for which you are responsible.
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20 hours
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Social Norms, Social Change I
This is a course on social norms, the rules that glue societies together. It teaches how to diagnose social norms, and how to distinguish them from other social constructs, like customs or conventions. These distinctions are crucial for effective policy interventions aimed to create new, beneficial norms or eliminate harmful ones. The course teaches how to measure social norms and the expectations that support them, and how to decide whether they cause specific behaviors.
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13 hours
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Build Space Invaders using Pygame
By the end of this project, you will create a basic and fully functioning version of the known game, Space Invaders using Python and Pygame.
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2 hours
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Survey Data Collection and Analytics
This specialization covers the fundamentals of surveys as used in market research, evaluation research, social science and political research, official government statistics, and many other topic domains.
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Provisioning an Apigee X Evaluation Organization
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you use the Apigee X provisioning wizard to create an Apigee X evaluation organization (org).
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2 hours
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Spreadsheets for Beginners using Google Sheets
This 2-hour long project-based course is an introduction to spreadsheets. We’ll be using Google Sheets in this project, which is the free spreadsheet program offered by Google. With that said, most of the concepts that you will learn in this project will be applicable to other spreadsheet programs, such as Microsoft Excel.
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3 hours
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Blended Learning: Personalizing Education for Students
Plenty of buzz exists about blended learning and its transformational potential. But what does blended learning really mean? In this course we will explore the different models of blended learning and dive into key issues that impact students, teachers, and schools. Specifically, we will look at these issues through the lens of three high-performing schools that each use a different type of blended learning.
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9 hours
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Enterprise Systems
This course provides you with an understanding of what Enterprise Systems (also commonly termed as Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, ERPs) are. After learning about what these systems are, we would touch upon why these systems are useful to companies, through which you would get to see the various jobs and positions that are associated with the use and deployment of ERPs. In this course, you would also develop an appreciation of the managerial aspects related to the selection and implementation of ERPs.
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8 hours
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Web Technologies and Security
This specialization is intended for people without programming experience with JavaScript frameworks and who seek to develop web application and security skills. In these four courses, you will cover everything from the fundamentals of VueJS to properly securing data in web development. These topics will help prepare you to write anything from small web applications to securing back-end systems. Learners who complete this specialization should have enough enough understanding of JavaScript frameworks to tackle other common tools like React or Svelte.
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Transfer Learning for Food Classification
In this hands-on project, we will train a deep learning model to predict the type of food and then fine tune the model to improve its performance.
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3 hours
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How to Build a BI Dashboard Using Google Data Studio and BigQuery
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. Learn how to build a BI dashboard with Data Studio as the front end, powered by BigQuery on the back end
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1 hour
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How to Integrate Apps into Hootsuite Dashboard
In this project, you will learn to use the Hootsuite Platform, you will explore the Hootsuite dashboard, and learn to integrate free apps into your Hootsuite dashboard to work them all together. You will learn to integrate Google Drive, Pixx.io, and Weather stream apps within the Hootsuite. You will learn to attach media and various format files from third-party apps to your social media post. You will also learn to schedule posts on a specific date and time.
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3 hours
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Feedback and Coaching For Everyone
By the end of the specialization, you will be able to: Prepare others for growth-mindset feedback and deliver it to them. Manage upward by preparing your superior to receive growth-mindset feedback from you. Build appropriate relationships to appreciate coworkers as people beyond the workplace. Use different tactics to eliminate or avoid common biases in group settings.
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Genetics and Society: A Course for Educators
How have advances in genetics affected society? What do we need to know to make ethical decisions about genetic technologies? This course includes the study of cloning, genetic enhancement, and ownership of genetic information. Course participants will acquire the tools to explore the ethics of modern genetics and learn how to integrate these issues into their classrooms.
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9 hours
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Entrepreneurship: Growing Your Business
Growing a business needs a dynamic set of skills, ranging from leadership, employee management, strategy, planning, finance, accounting, ethics, accountability, and profitability. Developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and led by top-ranked Darden faculty, this specialization covers challenges faced by private businesses, when they attempt to grow substantially. It starts with common challenges and human resource issues faced by private business.
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Six Sigma Black Belt
In this Specialization, learners developed and furthered their understanding of the Six Sigma DMAIC process. This Specialization also explored the intersection between Six Sigma and Lean as well as developed enhanced understanding of the DMAIC process beyond the confines of Green Belt instruction by also including content in Organizational Planning and Development, Team Management, and Design for Six Sigma.
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Hands-On Labs in Google Cloud for Security Engineers
Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this course you will get added hands-on practice understanding and securing resources with multiple Google Cloud services including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). This course is unlike other courses, in that it consists of one module of background videos, followed by a series of hands-on practice exercises on Google Cloud via Qwiklabs.
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5 hours
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Plant Bioinformatic Methods
The past 15 years have been exciting ones in plant biology. Hundreds of plant genomes have been sequenced, RNA-seq has enabled transcriptome-wide expression profiling, and a proliferation of "-seq"-based methods has permitted protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions to be determined cheaply and in a high-throughput manner.
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Inspired Leadership
In this specialization you will learn how to overcome the ravages of chronic stress and renew your body and mind by building better relationships and positive approaches to leadership. You will learn the power of asking questions to become a more inclusive and self-confident leader, and how to effectively coach others toward sustained, desired change, learning or increased motivation in life and work.
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Cypress UI automation testing for absolute beginners
Cypress is a complete end-to-end test automation tool built to test modern-day web applications. It is capable of automating both UI and API. This project is for beginner's in Cypress
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3 hours
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Deploy and Test a Visual Inspection AI Component Anomaly Detection Solution
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. Deploy and test a visual inspection AI component anomaly detection solution.
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2 hours
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Object-Oriented Java: Inheritance and Encapsulation
Code and run your first Java program in minutes without installing anything! This course is designed for learners with limited coding experience, providing a solid foundation of not just Java, but core Computer Science topics that can be transferred to other languages. The modules in this course cover inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, and other object-related topics. Completion of the prior 3 courses in this specialization is recommended. To allow for a truly hands-on, self-paced learning experience, this course is video-free.
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10 hours
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Create Business Cards with a QR Code in Photoshop
**Enroll in this Guided Project before April 2026, for a free 1-month trial to the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite!** In this project learners will know how to create professional business cards with the windows version of Photoshop. Learners will also learn how to create their personalized QR Code, which we will add to our business card. In this project you will also learn how to create the layout for standard size business cards.
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3 hours
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Take your resume to the next level with Canva
In this guided project the learner will have the opportunity to learn how to write and design their resumes and cover letters using Canva. Canva is an online graphic design program that allows you to create and design all types of documents, graphic design compositions and more. Canva is a great option for those looking for a user-friendly and easy-to-use platform to create attractive designs for their resumes. Canva has many elements that are free and it gives you a lot of freedom when designing.
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3 hours
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Protecting Business Innovation
The modern day business is bustling with ideas, products, and designs that often fail to benefit from their discoveries and inventions when they are unable to adequately protect those innovations. Protecting a business’s innovations entails essential skills, ranging from an understanding of intellectual property rights and trademark law, to the process of getting a patent. This specialization covers business law and strategy, along with other essential skills and concepts, and what they mean for protecting the innovations of a business.
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