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https://www.coursera.org/learn/acupressure This course provides an overview of the basic principles and applications of acupressure for patient symptom management and self-care. By the end of the course, you will be able to: a) explain basic concepts of East Asian Medicine (EAM); b) describe clinical indications for acupressure and the evidence base for its use in symptom management; c) identify various methods of administering acupressure, and clinical contraindications/precautions associated with each; d) demonstrate acupoint protoco |
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Advanced Models for Decision Making (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-models-for-decision-making Business analysts need to be able to prescribe optimal solution to problems. But analytics courses are often focused on training students in data analysis and visualization, not so much in helping them figure out how to take the available data and pair that with the right mathematical model to formulate a solution. This course is designed to connect data and models to real world decision-making scenarios in manufacturing, supply chain, finance, human resource management, etc. In particular, we u |
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Agile Software Development (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/agile-software-development Software industry is going crazy on agile methods. It is rapidly becoming the choice for software development where requirements are unpredictable or is expected to change over time. This course will help you gain knowledge on what is agile? Why agile is better suited for these situations? We will also cover some of the most common agile frameworks like scrum and XP in depth. Prerequisite: You need basic knowledge of software development process and software development methodologies. Aft |
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Analysis for Business Systems (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/analysis-for-business-systems Most often, organizations acquire information systems as part of a larger focus on process improvement and efficiency. These organizations need to invest in the right system to meet their needs: right functionality, right size, and for the right price. The business systems analyst role in most organizations is responsible for translating the organization’s needs into requirements, which are then used to select or build the right system for the organization. During the Analysis for Business Syst |
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Analytics for Decision Making (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/analytics-for-decision-making Offered by University of Minnesota. Boost your career through business analytics. Learn the basics of predictive and prescriptive analytics ... |
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Aromatherapy: Clinical Use of Essential Oils (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/aromatherapy-clinical-use-essential-oils This course provides an overview of essential oil therapy and current aromatherapy practices in clinical settings and gives you the skills to bring aromatherapy into your own practice. By the end of the course, you will be able to: a) explain what essential oils are to a patient and how they work; b) assess if an essential oil might be beneficial to a patient, considering patient preference and the research evidence, as well as any safety issues or contraindications; and c) suggest a protocol fo |
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Black-box and White-box Testing (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/black-box-white-box-testing After completing this course, learners will have an understanding of a variety of black-box and white-box testing techniques. The learner will have put this understanding into practice, creating effective sets of test cases (called a test suite) to properly exercise software for defect finding. The learner will have examined requirements for testability, created an oracle for automated testing, assessed fault-finding effectiveness of test suites, and generated inputs using a variety of technique |
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Cloud Application Security (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-application-security After completing the course, the student should be able to do the following: ● List and describe the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. ● Identify methods to provide cloud security assurance as part of the development life cycle, e.g. in a continuous delivery environment. ● List and describe the different types of virtualization or sandboxing used to protect cloud applications at either the server or client. ● Describe the application of authentication factors and federated identity solutions in clou |
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Cloud Data Security (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-data-security This course gives learners an opportunity to explore data security in the cloud. In this course, learners will: * Dive into the data services offered by cloud providers and compare their security features. * Analyze a data breach and trace it back to the vulnerability that made it possible. * Learn about database injection and aggregation attacks. * Follow the life cycle of a data item and its relationship to privacy and integrity. * Associate modern privacy requirements with US and European la |
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Cloud Security Basics (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-security-basics This course introduces you to cybersecurity for the cloud. We'll learn and apply classic security techniques to today’s cloud security problems. We start with a deceptively simple and secure web service and address the problems arising as we improve it. We’ll analyze recent cloud security vulnerabilities using standard, systematic techniques. We’ll build our own web service case studies and construct security solutions for them. Our toolkit contains classic security concepts like Least Privilege |
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Cloud Top Ten Risks (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-top-ten-risks After completing the course, the student should be able to do the following: ● Associate lists of OWASP Top Ten Risks with major cloud cybersecurity risks. ● Apply appropriate cryptographic techniques to secure authentication mechanisms and cloud data. ● Identify the most effective strategies for resisting injection attacks, cross-site scripting attacks, and object deserialization attacks. ● Assess strategies to address risks posed by administrative failures, including misconfiguration, broken |
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Community Awareness Course: Sexuality and Disability (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/sexuality-and-disability This community awareness course from the University of Minnesota Program on Human Sexuality will provide you with a solid introduction to human sexuality for those living with disabilities. Often there are assumptions that the disabled or differently abled people are not sexual, do not have sexual needs, or cannot be involved sexually. In this professionally produced one-hour course, you'll learn about the basics of disabilities and human sexuality. We'll then learn about three different conditi |
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Creative Problem Solving (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/creative-problem-solving This course deals directly with your ability for creativity which is a critical skill in any field. It focuses on divergent thinking, the ability to develop multiple ideas and concepts to solve problems. Through a series of creativity building exercises, short lectures, and readings, learners develop both an understanding of creativity and increase their own ability. This course will help you understand the role of creativity and innovation in your own work and in other disciplines. It will ch |
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Cybersecurity in the Cloud (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cybersecurity-cloud Offered by University of Minnesota. Defend Your Cloud from Cyberattacks. Detect and block hackers with off-the-shelf cyber-defenses |
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Desarrollo de software Agile (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/agile-software-development-es La industria del software se está volviendo loca con los métodos Agile. Rápidamente se está convirtiendo en la opción para el desarrollo de software cuando los requisitos son impredecibles o se espera que cambien con el tiempo. Este curso le ayudará a adquirir conocimientos sobre lo que es Agile. ¿Por qué Agile es más adecuado para estas situaciones? También cubriremos en profundidad algunos de los marcos Agile más comunes como scrum y XP. Requisito previo: Usted necesita un conocimiento bá |
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Engineering Practices for Building Quality Software (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/engineering-practices-secure-software-quality Agile embraces change which means that team should be able to effectively make changes to the system as team learns about users and market. To be good at effectively making changes to the system, teams need to have engineering rigor and excellence else embracing change becomes very painful and expensive. In this course, you will learn about engineering practices and processes that agile and traditional teams use to make sure the team is prepared for change. In additional, you will also learn |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/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 implement |
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Evaluating User Interfaces (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/ui-testing In this course you will learn and practice several techniques for user interface evaluation. First we start with techniques that can be applied alone or in a design team, including action analysis, walkthroughs, and heuristic evaluation. Then we move on to user testing, including learning from a series of usability tests carried out in a real usability lab, and techniques to carry out your own tests even without a lab. Finally, we wrap up the discussion of evaluation--and of UI Design in the |
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Fundamentals of Fluid Power (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/fluid-power Fluid power has the highest power density of all conventional power-transmission technologies. Learn the benefits and limitations of fluid power, how to analyze fluid power components and circuits, and how to design and simulate fluid power circuits for applications. In this course, you will be introduced to the fundamental principles and analytical modeling of fluid power components, circuits, and systems. You will learn the benefits and limitations of fluid power compared with other power tr |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/guided-imagery In this course, you will learn how you can use imagery and imagery interventions to help with symptom management and healing, as well as to enhance overall health and wellbeing. You will experience a variety of imagery interventions and evaluate how they might be helpful in providing relief or enhancing quality of life. By the end of the course, you will know how to assess if guided imagery is appropriate in specific situations or with specific patients. You will be able to find and evaluate gu |
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Healthcare Delivery Providers (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/healthcare-delivery-providers Welcome to the exciting world of Healthcare Delivery Providers! This second course in the Healthcare Marketplace Specialization will help you understand the various providers of healthcare across the U.S. delivery continuum. We will explore the unique value proposition of the various providers- from hospitals and clinics to physicians to community based providers. We will dissect this important value chain using various lenses such as- site of care delivery, people who provide the care and paye |
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Healthcare Marketplace (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/healthcare-marketplace Offered by University of Minnesota. Launch your career in the healthcare marketplace. Master your understanding of the complex and wealthy ... |
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Healthcare Marketplace Capstone (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/healthcare-marketplace-capstone In the Healthcare Marketplace specialization capstone course, key skills are engendered from the four prior courses to create an original medical innovation valuation. The first course in the specialization teaches the learner to size a population or market. The second course teaches whether the clinician will or will not find value from deploying a new innovation. The third course identifies the competitive landscape of medical technology innovations to compete or complement. The fourth c |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/herbalmedicine There is strong demand for alternatives to pharmaceuticals for a variety of common illnesses due to concerns of safety, efficacy, and a desire for more “natural” products. Despite this growing interest, “conventional” healthcare providers may have little to no knowledge about herbal medicines, which is further compounded by the sometimes misleading information in the media and on the internet. This course provides the necessary background for providers to begin to incorporate herbal medicines in |
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Human Resource Management: HR for People Managers (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/human-resource-management Offered by University of Minnesota. Become a better manager of people. Develop strategies and skills for hiring, managing performance, and ... |
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Information Systems (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/information-systems Offered by University of Minnesota. Information Technology . Become a better manager of information technology to address business problems |
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Integrative Health and Medicine (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/integrative-health-and-medicine Offered by University of Minnesota. Launch your career in integrative health. Incorporate complementary therapies in clinical practice to ... |
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Integrative Nursing (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/integrative-nursing Offered by University of Minnesota. Patient-Centered, Relationship-Based Nursing Care. By the end of this specialization, you will be able ... |
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Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/health-informatics-professional Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics is a graduate-level, hands-on interactive exploration of real informatics tools and techniques offered by the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota's National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. We will be incorporating technology-enabled educational innovations to bring the subject matter to life. Over the 10 modules, we will create a vital online learning community and a working healthcare informatics network. We wil |
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Introduction to Automated Analysis (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/automated-analysis This course introduces state-of-the-art techniques for automated analysis. Automated analysis encompasses both approaches to automatically generate a very large number of tests to check whether programs meet requirements, and also means by which it is possible to *prove* that software meets requirements and that it is free from certain commonly-occurring defects, such as divide-by-zero, overflow/underflow, deadlock, race-condition freedom, buffer/array overflow, uncaught exceptions, and several |
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Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/behavioralgenetics Behavioral genetic methodologies from twin and adoption studies through DNA analysis will be described and applied to address longstanding questions about the origins of individual differences in behavioral traits. |
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Introduction to Integrative Nursing (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/intergrative-nursing-introduction This course is designed for nurses who are drawn to practice in a different way – nurses who value whole-person care and know that the essence of nursing practice is truly caring and healing. You will learn about the principles and practices of Integrative Nursing and how you can be a healing presence to all you serve. Then, you will do an integrative assessment and apply the principles of Integrative Nursing to improve symptom management and overall patient outcomes. Finally, you will explore w |
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Introduction to Integrative Therapies and Healing Practices (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/integrative-therapies-and-healing-practices This introductory course provides a framework for incorporating integrative therapies into your work with clients or patients. By the end of the course, you will be able to assess if integrative therapies are good options in specific situations, as well as educate patients and colleagues about benefits and risks. You will be confident discussing the evidence base for integrative therapies in general, with an understanding of some of the challenges of research in this area, and able to identify |
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Introduction to Predictive Modeling (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-predictive-modeling Welcome to Introduction to Predictive Modeling, the first course in the University of Minnesota’s Analytics for Decision Making specialization. This course will introduce to you the concepts, processes, and applications of predictive modeling, with a focus on linear regression and time series forecasting models and their practical use in Microsoft Excel. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Understand the concepts, processes, and applications of predictive modeling. - |
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Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/recommender-systems-introduction This course, which is designed to serve as the first course in the Recommender Systems specialization, introduces the concept of recommender systems, reviews several examples in detail, and leads you through non-personalized recommendation using summary statistics and product associations, basic stereotype-based or demographic recommendations, and content-based filtering recommendations. After completing this course, you will be able to compute a variety of recommendations from datasets using |
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Introduction to Software Testing (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-software-testing After completing this course, you will have an understanding of the fundamental principles and processes of software testing. You will have actively created test cases and run them using an automated testing tool. You will being writing and recognizing good test cases, including input data and expected outcomes. After completing this course, you will be able to… - Describe the difference between verification and validation. - Explain the goal of testing. - Use appropriate test terminology in co |
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Introduction to UI Design (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/ui-design In this course, you will gain an understanding of the critical importance of user interface design. You will also learn industry-standard methods for how to approach the design of a user interface and key theories and frameworks that underlie the design of most interfaces you use today. Through a series of case studies on commercial systems - many of which you likely use on a regular basis - we will illustrate the benefits of good design. We will also demonstrate how the costs of bad design can |
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Introduction to UX Design MasterTrack Certificate Program (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/ux-design-open-content-shell User experience is a highly in-demand field which requires a holistic understanding of the design process. This course is a "sample" of the UX Design MasterTrack certificate program. You will have the opportunities to explore core topics in UX including Ethics and Research, User Research, User Testing, and Visual Literacy as four modules. You can take the opportunity to gain some basic understanding of UX research, and take this course as a pathway to the UX Design MasterTrack certificate prog |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/is-it-governance Firms make significant investments in IT. In the IS/IT Governance course we will discuss how to govern IT to make sure that the IT investments contribute to organizational goals and strategies. Firms need to formally evaluate significant IT investments. IT investments are also risky, so firms need to consider the risk associated with the investments to appropriately evaluate the investment. We will discuss how to evaluate IT investments. Firms usually make multiple IT investments in a given y |
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IT Infrastructure and Emerging Trends (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/it-infrastructure-and-emerging-trends Today organizations are either embracing digital technologies to improve their businesses or being disrupted by entrants with such capabilities. Therefore it is important for managers and executives of all organizations to learn about various technologies and apply them in innovative ways. Some of the most important trends in Information Technology are in mobile, cloud, security, and blockchains. This course gives you an overview of the fundamental technical aspects of Information Technology. A |
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Leadership in Interprofessional Informatics (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/leadership-interprofessional-informatics In this course, students in the health and information technology professions will examine models for interprofessional collaboration and teamwork, practice communication techniques to promote effective interaction, and envision futures literacy in interprofessional informatics scenarios. We will hear from nurses and other informaticians who are leading and working interprofessionally, and glean insights from their diverse perspectives. When we think about the requisite variety of leadership ski |
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Lean Software Development (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/lean-software-development While scrum and XP were transforming the software development industry, there were another set of ideas (derived from lean manufacturing and Six Sigma) that started to influence software development methods. These ideas around Lean Software Development forms the foundation of number of agile methods. In this course, we will explore lean concepts and cover some of the common Lean methods and techniques like Kanban, Value Stream Mapping, etc. In this course, we will also learn techniques like |
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Managing Employee Compensation (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/compensation-management Whether you're writing paychecks or wondering where yours comes from, this course is for you! We begin by asking: "To succeed, what kind of a person does your organization need to attract, retain, and motivate?" From there, we'll explain how to align your organization's objectives, its pay philosophy, and ultimately the way it designs and implements its salary structure, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and benefits. Interested in learning more about the technical aspects of comp |
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Managing Employee Performance (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/employee-performance Once you have hired good employees, the next step that successful people managers take is to develop the full potential of their employees. Performance management is a process that helps managers achieve the goal of getting the best from their employees. In this third course in the Human Resources for People Managers specialization, we will discuss the skills and key processes you will need to develop your employees to attain department and organizational goals. These skills will include se |
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Matrix Factorization and Advanced Techniques (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/matrix-factorization In this course you will learn a variety of matrix factorization and hybrid machine learning techniques for recommender systems. Starting with basic matrix factorization, you will understand both the intuition and the practical details of building recommender systems based on reducing the dimensionality of the user-product preference space. Then you will learn about techniques that combine the strengths of different algorithms into powerful hybrid recommenders. |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/matrix-methods Mathematical Matrix Methods lie at the root of most methods of machine learning and data analysis of tabular data. Learn the basics of Matrix Methods, including matrix-matrix multiplication, solving linear equations, orthogonality, and best least squares approximation. Discover the Singular Value Decomposition that plays a fundamental role in dimensionality reduction, Principal Component Analysis, and noise reduction. Optional examples using Python are used to illustrate the concepts and all |
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Mindfulness in Integrative Healthcare (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/mindfulness-integrative-healthcare By the end of this course, you will be able to assess when mindfulness may be helpful for your patients or clients, educate them about its potential benefits, and refer them to mindfulness programs and resources. To begin, you will explore what mindfulness is (and is not) through presentations and direct experience. You will also learn about the research supporting the benefits (and risks) of mindfulness for various conditions, as well as how to identify contraindications. Finally, you will lear |
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Nearest Neighbor Collaborative Filtering (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/collaborative-filtering In this course, you will learn the fundamental techniques for making personalized recommendations through nearest-neighbor techniques. First you will learn user-user collaborative filtering, an algorithm that identifies other people with similar tastes to a target user and combines their ratings to make recommendations for that user. You will explore and implement variations of the user-user algorithm, and will explore the benefits and drawbacks of the general approach. Then you will learn th |
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Nursing Informatics Leadership (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/leadership-nursing-informatics Offered by University of Minnesota. Advance your Nursing Informatics Leadership Skills. Master nursing informatics leadership skills to ... |
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Nursing Informatics Leadership Theory and Practice (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/nursing-informatics-leaders “By the end of this Course, you will be able to…” • Evaluate effective leadership styles for leadership in nursing informatics in clinical or academic contexts to improve leadership success. • Discover core values that support effective nursing informatics leadership in academic and clinical contexts to inform development of a personal leadership mission statement. • Discover competing values and polarities related to knowledge leadership and management to promote successful leadership collabor |