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Android App Components - Intents, Activities, and Broadcast Receivers (Coursera)

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

This 4 week MOOC builds upon the overview of Java and Android covered in Course 1 by delving deeper into core Android app components, such as intents, activities, and broadcast receivers. You will learn by example how to program these core Android components together with Android concurrency frameworks and basic Java file I/O classes (such as File and InputStream) and Android storage mechanisms (such as Shared Preferences). You'll also learn how to use the Git source code management system. Thr

Android App Components - Services, Local IPC, and Content Providers (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/androidapps-2

This 4 week MOOC builds upon the core Android app components and concurrency frameworks covered in Course 2 by focusing on started and bound services, local inter-process communication (IPC), and content providers. Case study apps will be examined from multiple perspectives to learn how to program these app components using Android's material design paradigm. Students will work incrementally on a hands-on project involving a material design-based RSS reader app. Each week you will add additional

Android App Development (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/android-app-development

Offered by Vanderbilt University. Launch Your Android App Development Career. Master the knowledge and skills necessary to develop ...

Building Cloud Services with the Java Spring Framework (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-services-java-spring-framework

This MOOC describes by example how to build cloud services via the use of object-oriented design techniques; Java programming language features; Java Servlets, the Java Spring Framework; and cloud computing platforms, such as Amazon Web Services. Due to the importance of building secure and scalable mobile/cloud platforms, this MOOC will not only show you how to build cloud services, but how to do so securely, scalably, and efficiently. Security and scalability topics will be woven into discuss

Capstone MOOC for "Android App Development" (Coursera)

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

The Capstone project integrates material from throughout the Android App Development Specialization to exercise and assess the ability of learners to create an interesting Android app. Learners will apply knowledge and skills learned in previous MOOCs in this Specialization, including Java programming features; Android activity, broadcast receiver, service, and content provider (plus SQLite) components; and unit, integration, and user interface testing. The project itself is similar in scope to

Case Studies in Personalized Medicine (Coursera)

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

Learn how advances in biomedicine hold the potential to revolutionize drug development, drug treatments, and disease prevention: where are we now, and what does the future hold? This course will present short primers in genetics and mechanisms underlying variability in drug responses. A series of case studies will be used to illustrate principles of how genetics are being brought to bear on refining diagnoses and on personalizing treatment in rare and common diseases. The ethical and operational

ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/chatgpt-advanced-data-analysis

ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis is going to transform tasks by helping amplify your productivity and supporting your creativity. ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis can help you augment your intelligence and automate tasks, such as: 1. Turning an Excel file into visualizations and then slides inside a PowerPoint presentation; extracting data from a series of PDFs 2. Answering questions about what is in the PDFs, and visualizing the data; automatically determining if a receipt complies with a travel p

Data Management for Clinical Research (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/clinical-data-management

This course presents critical concepts and practical methods to support planning, collection, storage, and dissemination of data in clinical research. Understanding and implementing solid data management principles is critical for any scientific domain. Regardless of your current (or anticipated) role in the research enterprise, a strong working knowledge and skill set in data management principles and practice will increase your productivity and improve your science. Our goal is to use these m

Engineering Maintainable Android Apps (Coursera)

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

Engineering Maintainable Android Apps, which is a 4 week MOOC that shows by example various methods for engineering maintainable Android apps, including test-driven development methods and how to develop/run unit tests using JUnit and Robotium (or equivalent automated testing frameworks for Android), as well as how to successfully apply common Java/Android software patterns to improve the extensibility and clarity of Android apps. Students will work on the appropriate automated unit quizzes, bas

Faster Together, Enhancing the Recruitment of Marginalized Communities in Clinical Trials (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/recruitment-minorities-clinical-trials

This course aims to teach people how to enhance the recruitment of racial and ethnic minorities in clinical trials. Key topics include the importance of diversity in clinical trials, barriers and facilitators to participation in clinical research, community engagement, effective communication, educating about clinical trials, provider outreach, effective prescreening and enrollment, person-centered consent, and retention. Anyone with the potential to recruit can benefit from this course, wheth

Generative AI for Leaders (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/generative-ai-for-leaders

Leaders are constantly seeking innovative tools to amplify their impact. Dive into the realm of Generative AI, a groundbreaking technology poised to redefine the leadership landscape more profoundly than the Internet itself. This course offers a comprehensive journey into understanding, applying, and mastering Generative AI as a robust tool to amplify leadership capabilities. You will gain hands-on experience that teaches you to use Generative AI for: - Agenda Architecting: Let Generative AI

Generative AI Primer (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/generative-ai

ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. The course will give you a primer that covers what Generative AI is, basic prompt engineering, and how you can innovate with Generative AI.

Hot Topics in Criminal Justice (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/hot-topics-criminal-justice

The American criminal justice system is in need of reform. We incarcerate too many people. We pay insufficient attention to scientific advances that can help separate out the most and least culpable and dangerous. We grant the police far too much power to use force and technological surveillance. As a way of thinking about dealing with these problems, this course examines two over-arching issues: What should we do with people who have committed crime, and how should we identify who they are? O

Innovative Teaching with ChatGPT (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/chatgpt-innovative-teaching

Despite what you may have heard, ChatGPT offers exciting possibilities for supporting innovative teaching and personalized education. This course provides practical techniques that any educator, from K-12 to higher education, can use to help support their teaching. No experience with ChatGPT, prompt engineering, or Generative AI is required. In this course, you will learn how to do exciting things to support your teaching and student learning, such as: 1. How to brainstorm lesson plans that in

Introduction to Data, Signal, and Image Analysis with MATLAB (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/matlab-image-processing

Welcome to Introduction to Data, Signal, and Image Analysis with MATLAB! MATLAB is an extremely versatile programming language for data, signal, and image analysis tasks. This course provides an introduction on how to use MATLAB for data, signal, and image analysis. After completing the course, learners will understand how machine learning methods can be used in MATLAB for data classification and prediction; how to perform data visualization, including data visualization for high dimensio

Introduction to Programming with MATLAB (Coursera)

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

This course teaches computer programming to those with little to no previous experience. It uses the programming system and language called MATLAB to do so because it is easy to learn, versatile and very useful for engineers and other professionals. MATLAB is a special-purpose language that is an excellent choice for writing moderate-size programs that solve problems involving the manipulation of numbers. The design of the language makes it possible to write a powerful program in a few lines. Th

Java for Android (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/java-for-android

This MOOC teaches you how to program core features and classes from the Java programming language that are used in Android, which is the dominant platform for developing and deploying mobile device apps. In particular, this MOOC covers key Java programming language features that control the flow of execution through an app (such as Java’s various looping constructs and conditional statements), enable access to structured data (such as Java's built-in arrays and common classes in the Java Colle

Leading Innovation in Arts and Culture (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/arts-culture-innovation

Developed by David Owens at Vanderbilt University and customized for the cultural sector with National Arts Strategies, this course is designed to help arts and culture leaders create an environment where new ideas are constantly created, shared, evaluated and the best ones are successfully put to work. One of the toughest challenges for any leader is getting traction for new ideas. Winning support can be a struggle. As a result, powerful new ideas often get stuck. This is especially true in th

Mastering Programming with MATLAB (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-matlab-programming

The course builds on the foundation laid by the first course of the Specialization called “Introduction to Programming with MATLAB.” It covers more advanced programming concepts such as recursion, vectorization, function handles, algorithm efficiency and others. At the same time, it presents many features that make MATLAB a powerful programming environment for engineering and scientific computing, such as its support for object oriented programming, the new user interface design environment and

MATLAB Programming for Engineers and Scientists (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/matlab-programming-engineers-scientists

Offered by Vanderbilt University. From Zero to MATLAB Hero in Three Courses.. Gain a solid foundation in computer programming and become a ...

Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/interactive-media-gaming

Intended for both newcomers who are curious about video games and experienced gamers who want to reflect on their passion, this course will explore what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they become the basis of massively multiplayer online games. The Lord of the Rings trilogy—the novels, films, and video game—are our central example of how “remediation” transforms familiar stories as they move across media. The course is designed as a university-level English literature class—a m

Prompt Engineering (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/prompt-engineering

Offered by Vanderbilt University. Become a Prompt Engineering Expert. Master prompt engineering patterns, techniques, and approaches to ...

Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/prompt-engineering

ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap i

Scalable Microservices for Developers (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/microservices

Offered by Vanderbilt University. Become a Microservices Expert. Learn strategies and architectures for building scalable microservices with ...

Trustworthy Generative AI (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/trustworthy-generative-ai

We see lots of news reports of Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, making mistakes and producing inaccurate information. Many of these mistakes happen because humans use the tools in the wrong way - trying to solve unsuitable problems and not thinking about risk. Hallucination isn't a bug, it's a feature when you approach problems correctly. This course teaches techniques for determining if a problem fits Generative AI's capabilities, framing problems to reduce risk, prompt engineering for tru

Understanding the Music Business: What is Music Worth? (Coursera)

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

This course will examine the music industry in the United States, with the unique perspective gained by Vanderbilt University’s location in Nashville, TN. Nashville is a major center of music in the United States, and the music created here has a global reach, particularly in the country, rock, pop, singer-songwriter, and Americana genres. However, students will learn that the basic principles of recording, marketing, copyright, licensing, and live performance are the same, regardless of music