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Pattern Discovery in Data Mining (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-patterns

Learn the general concepts of data mining along with basic methodologies and applications. Then dive into one subfield in data mining: pattern discovery. Learn in-depth concepts, methods, and applications of pattern discovery in data mining. We will also introduce methods for data-driven phrase mining and some interesting applications of pattern discovery. This course provides you the opportunity to learn skills and content to practice and engage in scalable pattern discovery methods on massive

Planet Earth...and You! (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/planet-earth

Earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building, ice ages, landslides, floods, life evolution, plate motions—all of these phenomena have interacted over the vast expanses of deep time to sculpt the dynamic planet that we live on today. Planet Earth presents an overview of several aspects of our home, from a geological perspective. We begin with earthquakes—what they are, what causes them, what effects they have, and what we can do about them. We will emphasize that plate tectonics—the grand unifying

Professional IQ: Preventing and Solving Problems at Work (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/professional-iq

Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A Compass for Navigating Professional Challenges. Many successful people know the ...

Professional Responsibility and Ethics for Accountants (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ethics

Accountants perform a wide variety of activities which include, but are not limited to, accounting, auditing, tax, management consulting, and financial management.  However, a professional accountant’s responsibility is not exclusively to satisfy the needs of an employer or professional services client.  One of the distinguishing characteristics of the accounting profession is its acceptance of the responsibility to act in the public interest. This course will introduce you to professional gui

Professional Success Skills (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/professional-success-skills

Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Develop professional business skills for success. In this specialization, you'll ...

Project Execution and Control (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/project-execution-control

The focus of this course is on the process of managing projects. After planning is done, we need to know how to successfully execute the plan and deliver within the allocated timeframe and cost. This course will focus on how execution and progress evaluation is performed in a waterfall approach, as well as the agile approach to project management. The goal is to learn the tools and techniques offered by both of these approaches and empower the project managers to utilize what works for a given

Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/race-cultural-diversity-american-life

Learners will deepen their understanding and appreciation of ways in which race, ethnicity and cultural diversity have shaped American institutions, ideology, law, and social relationships from the colonial era to the present. Race and ethnicity are ideological and cultural categories that include all groups and individuals. Hence, this course is designed in significant part to take a broad look at the ideology of race and cultural diversity in America’s past and present. The primary focus is on

Shaping Your Professional Brand (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/professional-brand

You've thought about who you are and how you want your career to be. You have some soft skills to deal with situations that could cause problems. What about the team around you? How do you build functional and constructive professional relationships? How can you add value? What do employers look for when they are promoting? Skill-building in this course will include asking questions, listening, developing likeability (you’d better be stellar if you’re difficult), identifying cognitive bias, apo

Strategic Innovation: Building and Sustaining Innovative Organizations (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/strategic-innovation-building-and-sustaining-innovative-organizations

Innovation strategy is about creating unique value for consumers by delivering a great product that satisfies their needs. This course introduces the fundamental strategy concepts and tools that enable firms to manage technological innovations for competitive advantage. It does so by first considering the sources of technological change and how to leverage technologies to create firm value. It then examines the various mechanisms for extracting value from technologies, both legal (e.g., patents

Strategic Innovation: Managing Innovation Initiatives (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/strategic-innovation-innovation-at-the-frontier

You may have noticed that what is new often behaves differently than what has become accepted over time whether it is in a market, technology, or with people and firms. This course helps you develop a perspective on managing innovation. That is, you will build your capability to lead and design your organization in effectively implementing innovation initiatives and achieving their strategic intent. To do this, you will learn a set of frameworks, tools, and concepts that can help you address s

Strategic Leadership and Management (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/strategic-leadership

Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Leadership and Business Skill for Immediate Impact. Apply practical strategies to ...

Strategic Leadership and Management Capstone (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/strategic-leadership-capstone

The capstone is a strategic leadership and management plan where you’ll apply what you will learn to an actual business situation with participation by one or more focal companies. The deliverable will be designed to create value from the perspective of potential employers while achieving pedagogical and experiential goals for learners. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more info

Strategic Technology Management (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/technology-management

Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gain a strategic view of technology & innovation. Participants learn tools 1) to gain ...

Sustainable Business Enterprises (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-business-enterprises

This course will explore current challenges and opportunities facing firms in the area of environmental sustainability. It will begin with an introduction to sustainability, with a particular focus on how environmental sustainability is relevant to business. Topics such as unsustainable consumption/consumer behavior, market research on sustainable product design , and sustainable value chains and communications will be covered. We will also cover the bottom-up approach in terms of immersion, em

Sustainable Food Production Through Livestock Health Management (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/livestock-farming

Learn about the impact of infectious disease on sustainable animal-based food production by understanding the science of growth, immunity, and infection and by learning the problem-solving skills needed to advance animal health and food production through optimal management practices. There is a growing global need in agricultural production for a workforce that is capable of integrating knowledge of animal health and production with an understanding of consumer preferences in the context of ec

Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/subsistence-marketplaces-1

This course focuses on understanding subsistence marketplaces and designing business solutions for the billions of people living in poverty in the global marketplace. To develop understanding of these markets, we use exercises to that enable learners to view the world from the eyes of subsistence consumers and entrepreneurs, facilitate bottom‐up understanding generated by participants, and provide insights from extensive research. More broadly, the course uses the context of extreme resource con

Taxation of Business Entities I: Corporations (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/taxation-business-entities-part-1

This course provides an introduction to the U.S. federal income taxation of corporations and their shareholders. The course focuses on the relevant provisions of Subchapter C of the Internal Revenue Code, as well as related Treasury Regulations and judicial opinions, governing corporate formation, operations, distributions, and liquidation. Practical in-class study problems facilitate self-discovery of technical tax knowledge along with the development of a variety of professional skills and att

Taxation of Business Entities II: Pass-Through Entities (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/taxation-business-entities-part-2

This course provides an introduction to the U.S. federal income taxation of pass-through business entities, including Subchapter S corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. The course focuses on the relevant provisions of Subchapters S and K of the Internal Revenue Code, as well as related Treasury Regulations and judicial opinions, governing the formation, operation, and termination of pass-through entities. Practical in-class study problems facilitate self-discovery of techn

Teamwork and Creativity (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/teamwork-and-creativity

In this course, you will enhance your ability and opportunity to work creatively within any organization, learn to understand the importance and role of teamwork within the organization, and develop skills that differentiate yourself as a team player. The professional business skills related to teamwork and creativity gained through this course will help you to succeed working in any organization.

Technology Strategy: Creative Destruction (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/technology-strategy-creative-destruction

The success of modern companies depends critically on their ability to manage and respond to technological change. Innovation is continually challenging companies’ competitive advantages, giving rise to new business models, and stimulating new platform-based competition. Managers and entrepreneurs need to understand these strategic forces and how they impact firms and industries in the modern knowledge economy. This course explains how technological innovation affects the competitive dynamics of

Text Mining and Analytics (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/text-mining

This course will cover the major techniques for mining and analyzing text data to discover interesting patterns, extract useful knowledge, and support decision making, with an emphasis on statistical approaches that can be generally applied to arbitrary text data in any natural language with no or minimum human effort. Detailed analysis of text data requires understanding of natural language text, which is known to be a difficult task for computers. However, a number of statistical approaches

Text Retrieval and Search Engines (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/text-retrieval

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth of natural language text data, including web pages, news articles, scientific literature, emails, enterprise documents, and social media such as blog articles, forum posts, product reviews, and tweets. Text data are unique in that they are usually generated directly by humans rather than a computer system or sensors, and are thus especially valuable for discovering knowledge about people’s opinions and preferences, in addition to many other kinds of knowl

The 3D Printing Revolution (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-revolution

This course will demonstrate how 3D printers work, show what people make with them, and examine the 3D printing ecosystem. It will also explore the future of 3D printing and discuss how this technology will revolutionize our world. The course materials include informative video lectures, on-location interviews with a variety of 3D printing experts, and engaging hands-on exercises. Learners who complete this introductory course will have a solid understanding of 3D printing and its revolutionary

The Digital Marketing Revolution (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/digital-marketing-revolution

The Digital Revolution is dramatically altered the way many products are created, promoted, distributed, and consumed. Before the advent of new digital technologies such as the Internet, personal computer and smartphone, marketing was largely an Analog (i.e., physical) activity. Today, many marketing activities such as how products are promoted are increasingly Digital in nature. However, we still live in an Analog (or physical) World. For example, even today, most sales are still conducted in p

Tools for Exploratory Data Analysis in Business (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/tools-exploratory-data-analysis-business

This course introduces several tools for processing business data to obtain actionable insight. The most important tool is the mind of the data analyst. Accordingly, in this course, you will explore what it means to have an analytic mindset. You will also practice identifying business problems that can be answered using data analytics. You will then be introduced to various software platforms to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data into tools for conducting exploratory data analytics (EDA). S

Trabajo en equipo y creatividad (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/teamwork-and-creativity-es

En este curso, mejorarás tu capacidad y tus oportunidades para trabajar de manera creativa dentro de cualquier organización, aprenderás a comprender la importancia y la función del trabajo en equipo dentro de la organización, y desarrollarás habilidades que te diferenciarán como participante influyente del equipo. Las habilidades comerciales profesionales relacionadas con el trabajo en equipo y la creatividad que obtendrás en este curso te ayudarán a tener éxito en tu trabajo en cualquier organi

U.S. Federal Taxation (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/united-states-federal-taxation

Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. U.S. Federal Taxation of Individuals & Businesses. Learners will develop knowledge in ...

U.S. Taxation of International Transactions (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/us-international-tax

This course analyzes the tax treatment, issues, planning techniques and underlying government policies involved in doing business internationally. The course incorporates concepts learned in all of the tax courses as they relate to the impact on cross-border outbound transactions (i.e., the taxation of US taxpayers doing business abroad). Topics include the source of income, transfer pricing, controlled foreign corporations (CFCs), Subpart F income, foreign tax credits, Global Intangible Low-Tax

Ubiquitous Learning and Instructional Technologies (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ubiquitouslearning

This course will analyze currently available technologies for learning. Areas addressed include: learning management systems, intelligent tutors, computer adaptive testing, gamification, simulations, learning in and through social media and peer interaction, universal design for learning, differentiated instruction systems, big data and learning analytics, attention monitoring, and affect-aware systems. Participants will explore the processes for selection and implementation of suitable technolo

Understanding Financial Statements: Company Performance (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/income-statement

This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial statements with an emphasis on the income statement. Building on the foundation formed in the first course, you will learn about the third of our three measurement questions and how the income statement helps to answer this final measurement question. Returning to the real business people introduced in the first course, this second course describes the basic content of income statement in a simple yet relevant context. The cou

Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-statements

This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial statements with an emphasis on the balance sheet. However, to understand accounting driven financial statements, it is important to recognize that accounting is less about counting and more about measuring. “What is it that is being measured?” Well, as the course unfolds, you will learn about the three measurement questions and how the balance sheet helps to answer the first two of these questions. By touring a real company an

Unordered Data Structures (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cs-fundamentals-3

The Unordered Data Structures course covers the data structures and algorithms needed to implement hash tables, disjoint sets and graphs. These fundamental data structures are useful for unordered data. For example, a hash table provides immediate access to data indexed by an arbitrary key value, that could be a number (such as a memory address for cached memory), a URL (such as for a web cache) or a dictionary. Graphs are used to represent relationships between items, and this course covers sev

Value Chain Management (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/value-chain-management

Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Master Value Chain Analysis. Acquire critical business management competencies to ...

Visualization for Data Journalism (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/visualization-for-data-journalism

While telling stories with data has been part of the news practice since its earliest days, it is in the midst of a renaissance. Graphics desks which used to be deemed as “the art department,” a subfield outside the work of newsrooms, are becoming a core part of newsrooms’ operation. Those people (they often have various titles: data journalists, news artists, graphic reporters, developers, etc.) who design news graphics are expected to be full-fledged journalists and work closely with reporters

VLSI CAD Part I: Logic (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/vlsi-cad-logic

A modern VLSI chip has a zillion parts -- logic, control, memory, interconnect, etc. How do we design these complex chips? Answer: CAD software tools. Learn how to build thesA modern VLSI chip is a remarkably complex beast: billions of transistors, millions of logic gates deployed for computation and control, big blocks of memory, embedded blocks of pre-designed functions designed by third parties (called “intellectual property” or IP blocks). How do people manage to design these complicate

VLSI CAD Part II: Layout (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/vlsi-cad-layout

You should complete the VLSI CAD Part I: Logic course before beginning this course. A modern VLSI chip is a remarkably complex beast: billions of transistors, millions of logic gates deployed for computation and control, big blocks of memory, embedded blocks of pre-designed functions designed by third parties (called “intellectual property” or IP blocks). How do people manage to design these complicated chips? Answer: a sequence of computer aided design (CAD) tools takes an abstract descrip

أسس القيادة اليومية (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/everyday-leadership-foundation-ar

في هذه الدورة التدريبية، ستتعلم أسس القيادة اليومية واتخاذ القرارات الفردية والجماعية وإدارة التحفيز. تتمثل الأهداف في معرفة سبب الأهمية البالغة لمهارات القيادة لنجاح المنظمة ومعرفة كيفية ذلك، بجانب تعلّم أسس مهارات القيادة الفعّالة.\n\nيستفيد المتعلمون:\n•\tمعرفة سبب أهمية مهارات القيادة للنجاح المؤسسي وكيفية تطبيقها.\n•\tمعرفة كيفية استخدام مهارات القيادة للعمل بشكل أكثر فعاليّة مع الآخرين، والقدرة على تنظيم مجموعات للعمل معًا بشكل أكثر فعاليّة.\n•\tالقدرة على تطبيق أسس مهارات القيادة الفعّالة

التسويق في عالم رقمي (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/marketing-digital-ar

تلقي هذه الدورة التدريبية نظرة على الكيفية التي تقوم بها الأدوات الرقمية، مثل الإنترنت والهواتف الذكية والطباعة ثلاثية الأبعاد، بإحداث ثورة في عالم التسويق من خلال نقل توازن القوة من الشركات إلى المستهلكين. إن دورة التدريبية "التسويق في عالم رقمي" تعد واحدة من أشهر الدورات التدريبية المتاحة من خلال Coursera، حيث تضم أكثر من 150000 متعلم، وهي مصنفة من خلال Class Central على أنها واحدة من أهم الدورات التدريبية الهائلة المفتوحة عبر الإنترنت (MOOC) على مدار التاريخ (https://www.class-central.com/rep

القيادة (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/leaders-ar

في هذه الدورة التدريبية، ستنمي وتعزز قدرتك على القيادة وتتعرف على سمات القيادة التي يظهرها الآخرون في مؤسستك. ستساعدك مهارات الأعمال المهنية المتعلقة بالقيادة المكتسبة عبر هذه الدورة التدريبية على النجاح في أي مؤسسة.