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  • Business
    Beginner

    Dubai Expo 2020 - A Case Study

    This course examines the success and impact of Expo 2020 Dubai, which united 192 nations under the theme "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future." Participants will explore its record-breaking attendance, innovative technologies, and sustainability initiatives, as well as its role in fostering global collaboration and cultural exchange. The course also covers the transformation of the Expo site into District 2020, a hub for innovation and economic growth. Through case studies and discussions, attendees will learn how Expo 2020 set new standards for global events, overcame pandemic challenges, and left a lasting legacy. By the end, participants will understand its influence on future expos and its contribution to global unity and progress.

    180 min
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  • Technology
    Intermediate

    API Basics 2: Build a Blog (REST, URLs & HTTP Requests)

    This course offers a comprehensive introduction to HTTP requests, REST APIs, and how to build dynamic web applications. You'll learn the fundamentals of HTTP, including request methods such as GET and POST, headers, and bodies. Through hands-on projects, you will retrieve data from APIs, send data to servers, and work with real-world APIs like JSON Placeholder and OpenWeatherMap. The course also gives you hands-on experience. You'll create a functional blog space, retrieving posts from a server and displaying them on a webpage. You’ll enhance the user interface by adding CSS styling, create forms to submit new posts, and use JavaScript to handle form submissions. You’ll also learn how to implement URL parameters and query strings to filter data. By the end of this course, you'll understand how to structure and send HTTP requests, use a basic REST API, and create interactive web pages that communicate with a server. Whether you're a beginner or looking to enhance your web development skills, this course will equip you with essential tools to build dynamic applications.

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  • Technology
    All levels

    Snake Game in Python with Pygame: Build & Customize

    Learners will design, implement, and customize a complete Snake Game in Python using Pygame while mastering essential game development concepts. By the end of this course, participants will be able to apply programming fundamentals, control user input, manage game logic, integrate scoring systems, and enhance gameplay with sound, visuals, and speed customization. This project-based course begins with building the foundation: setting up the environment, creating the snake character, and structuring the game loop. Learners will then explore movement controls, event handling, pause functionality, and text rendering to deliver interactive gameplay. Advanced lessons cover color design, modular coding with functions, boundaries, food mechanics, and testing for accuracy. The course culminates with sound effects, background customization, and speed adjustments, ensuring learners can polish their projects into professional-quality games. Unlike generic tutorials, this case study emphasizes hands-on coding, problem-solving, and real-world application of Python skills. By completing this course, learners gain not only a fully functional game but also transferable programming skills for future projects in Python, Pygame, and beyond.

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  • Technology
    Intermediate

    Security Command Center: Identify and Prioritize Risks

    In the context of a real-world use case, learn how to use Security Command Center’s virtual red teaming feature to identify risks. Then, learn how attack exposure scores help you prioritize issues and how risk reports keep stakeholders in the loop.

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  • Technology
    Beginner

    Data for Effective Policy Making

    In this age of information, data is available everywhere and grows at an exponential rate. How can we make sense of all this data? How do we take advantage of data when making decisions? How do we use data to help us guide the management and planning of our policies? Whether you're a citizen or a policymaker, learning the answers to these questions can benefit you greatly. In this course, you will strengthen your ability to use, understand and interpret data and gain the tools to navigate data, perform and interpret visualizations, and understand the different types of data analysis according to the policy to be implemented. Relax, it's not a statistics course! However, you will acquire the knowledge necessary to interpret graphs, statistical reports and understand their language. And, most importantly, you will acquire the foundations to be able to base your decisions on verifiable data, beyond intuition.

    2400 min
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  • Technology
    Beginner

    Introduction to Model Context Protocol

    In this course, you'll discover how to build powerful AI applications using the Model Context Protocol, a revolutionary approach that eliminates tedious integration code when connecting Claude to external services and data sources. This course takes you from understanding MCP's core architecture to building fully functional MCP servers and clients that can interact with real-world systems. You'll learn the three essential MCP primitives - tools, resources, and prompts - and understand when to use each one. Through hands-on implementation, you'll create your own MCP server with the Python SDK, defining tools that Claude can call autonomously, resources that provide data to your applications, and prompts that deliver professionally crafted workflows to end users. By building both client and server components, you'll gain complete insight into how MCP enables seamless communication between AI models and external services. You'll work with the MCP Inspector to test your implementations, understand transport protocols, and see exactly how messages flow through the entire system. Whether you're building GitHub integrations, document management systems, or custom AI workflows, this course gives you the practical skills to leverage MCP's standardized approach and dramatically reduce your development burden.

    480 min
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  • Business
    Beginner

    Generative AI for Graphic Designers

    Generative AI is changing the way designers work—turning ideas into visuals faster than ever. In this course, you’ll learn how to use Adobe Illustrator’s AI-powered features to generate artwork, recolor designs, and create patterns directly from text prompts. You’ll start by generating your first vector graphics and understanding how prompts shape creative output. Then, you’ll refine prompts to create custom patterns and explore how AI can assist with recoloring artwork and developing new design variations. Throughout the course, you’ll gain insight into how AI fits within a designer’s creative process, expanding your ideas, saving time, and enhancing originality. By the end, you’ll know how to confidently integrate AI tools into your Illustrator workflow to generate, adjust, and polish professional design projects that reflect both human creativity and machine innovation.

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  • Technology
    All levels

    Houdini Destruction: Build, Fracture & Simulate

    By the end of this course, learners will design, fracture, simulate, and finalize cinematic destruction sequences in Houdini. They will master key skills such as breaking geometry with SOP tools, generating advanced Voronoi and VDB fractures, optimizing destruction through packed and proxy geometry, controlling simulations with DOP Networks, and applying realistic constraints like hard, glue, and cone twist setups. Learners will also simulate secondary debris and integrate Pyro FX for smoke, fire, and explosive effects, creating production-ready destruction shots. This course is designed to provide a step-by-step production-based approach, moving beyond simple demonstrations to industry-level workflows. Each module focuses on practical problem-solving, from refining fracture realism to troubleshooting orientation issues in constraints. Learners will benefit from hands-on projects that replicate real-world visual effects pipelines, gaining the confidence to build destruction systems for film, games, and animation. What makes this course unique is its comprehensive coverage of both geometry preparation and simulation workflows, ensuring learners not only understand the “how” but also the “why” behind every technique in procedural destruction.

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  • Business
    Beginner

    Engage HR Stakeholders

    Great analytics mean nothing if no one uses them. This course teaches you to engage stakeholders strategically and drive adoption of HR analytics initiatives. You'll apply your understanding of why engagement determines success, apply the influence-interest grid to prioritize your efforts, and use AI to draft communication plans. By the end, you'll turn skeptics into supporters and ensure your analytics work drives real organizational change.

    60 min
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  • Business
    Intermediate

    Cross-Cultural Communication and Management

    Communication is much more than the words you say. And cultural communication is much more than just the language you speak. What you say is never interpreted exactly as you meant it and what you hear is never what was meant by what was said. When you mix in the differences of how different cultures draw lines between social interactions and work interactions, give and receive feedback, and engage in and resolve conflict, the barrier to understanding can feel impossible to overcome. You will learn how to recognize your own communication style and how it is being perceived in ways you never intended. From there, we will explore how to successfully integrate multiple cultural norms into your communications and to create a brand new language unique to your team. Before you know it, on the strength of your multinational cultures, your team will be the model to which less diverse teams aspire. We can’t wait to communicate with you!

    600 min
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  • Business
    Intermediate

    Advertise your Fundraiser using Canva

    By the end of this project, you will know how to use Canva to promote and advertise your fundraiser both digitally and locally. You will have learned how to create a Facebook Post, an event poster and a flyer with the help of Canva. We will both use templates, and create designs from scratch. You will be able to incorporate a color scheme, images, and other design elements for aesthetically pleasing. Creating high quality advertisements is the perfect way to proactively engage with your target audience both digitally and in your local community. This project will include intermediate to advanced level skills using the free version of Canva. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

    120 min
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  • Technology
    Intermediate

    Data Engineering with Rust

    Are you a data engineer, software developer, or a tech enthusiast with a basic understanding of Rust, seeking to enhance your skills and dive deep into the realm of data engineering with Rust? Or are you a professional from another programming language background, aiming to explore the efficiency, safety, and concurrency features of Rust for data engineering tasks? If so, this course is designed for you. While a fundamental knowledge of Rust is expected, you should ideally be comfortable with the basics of data structures and algorithms, and have a working understanding of databases and data processing. Familiarity with SQL, the command line, and version control with git is advantageous. This four-week course focuses on leveraging Rust to create efficient, safe, and concurrent data processing systems. The journey begins with a deep dive into Rust's data structures and collections, followed by exploring Rust's safety and security features in the context of data engineering. In the subsequent week, you'll explore libraries and tools specific to data engineering like Diesel, async, Polars, and Apache Arrow, and learn to interface with data processing systems, REST, gRPC protocols, and AWS SDK for cloud-based data operations. The final week focuses on designing and implementing full-fledged data processing systems using Rust. By the end of this course, you will be well-equipped to use Rust for handling large-scale data engineering tasks, solving real-world problems with efficiency and speed. The hands-on labs and projects throughout this course will ensure you gain practical experience, putting your knowledge into action. This course is your gateway to mastering data engineering with Rust, preparing you for the next level in your data engineering journey.

    1500 min
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