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• Technology

  Beginner

  Create the User Interface with SwiftUI

  In this course learners will learn how to build meaningful and functional user interfaces for iOS using Swift and UI frameworks. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: -Utilize a range of different approaches for building UI with Swift -Build a basic UI with the Swift Interface Builder -Create and control UI views with the UIKit framework -Create simple applications with the UIKit framework -Build interfaces using the SwiftUI framework -Utilize lists and forms in SwiftUI in order to build frameworks -Organize UI with the use of containers -Create stylish UI using advanced views -Enhance views with the use of transformations, drawings and animations You’ll gain experience with the following tools and software: -Swift UI framework -Interface building software -UIKit application and view building features -Lists and forms -UI containers -UI transformation, drawing and animation tools To take this course, you should understand the basics of Swift and cross-platform development for mobile applications. Additionally, it always helps to have a can-do attitude!

  960 min

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• Business

  Beginner

  Contract Types and Terms

  Contract Types and Terms is a fundamental course for procurement professionals who need to select and verify commercial agreements with confidence. Choosing the wrong procurement instrument or failing to spot a discrepancy between a quote and a contract can lead to budget overruns, operational delays, and legal risk. This course provides the essential skills to get it right from the start. You will first learn to distinguish between a purchase order (PO) for one-time buys and a frame contract for long-term arrangements, ensuring you always select the most efficient tool for the job. Then, you will master a systematic, checklist-driven process to cross-check draft contracts against formal quotations, confirming that key terms like price, delivery, and warranty are perfectly aligned. Through real-world scenarios and hands-on exercises, you will build the precision needed to protect your organization and ensure that what was promised is what gets signed.

  90 min

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• Technology

  Beginner

  Getting Started with R

  In this 2 hour-long project, you will learn the basics of R programming language. In addition, you will take your first steps in the use of R programming language for Data Analysis. By the end of this 2-hour long project, you will understand how to use the R GUI called R studio. By extension, you will learn the different data types and data structures used in R. Finally, you will learn how to install packages and how to import data sets into the R studio work space. This course is aimed at learners who are looking to get started with the R programming language. There are no hard prerequisites and any competent computer user should be able to complete the project successfully.

  120 min

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• Technology

  Beginner

  Wix para principiantes

  Al final de este proyecto, tendrás todas las habilidades básicas para descubrir Wix y sus funciones en detalle. Wix es una herramienta que te permite crear, administrar y hacer crecer tu presencia en la web. Sabrás cómo usar Wix por primera vez, con facilidad. Este proyecto es para principiantes, que nunca antes han usado Wix y les gustaría usar Wix para crear un sitio web.

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• Business

  Beginner

  Why Business? What is the Role of Business in a Just and Humane Society

  The course examines the common perceptions of business (both positive and negative) and the role of business in a market economy by first introducing the main elements of a market economy, and then presenting opposing points of view of this economic model.The course encourages reflection upon the possibility that business can be honorable and play a role in a just and humane society.

  360 min

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• Technology

  Intermediate

  Designing Multimodal Interfaces

  This course establishes a solid foundation in UI design, starting with core principles and gradually advancing to practical skills in GUI design and prototyping. The course covers the principles and practices behind designing effective multimodal interfaces using visual, text, and speech inputs. Learners will also explore topics such as biometric authentication and conversational interfaces for smart assistants, alongside essential concepts in privacy, security, and accessibility. The course also focuses on designing natural language interactions for chatbots, preparing students to create user-friendly, responsive multimodal systems.

  4800 min

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• Technology

  All levels

  Business Metrics for Data-Driven Companies

  In this course, you will learn best practices for how to use data analytics to make any company more competitive and more profitable. You will be able to recognize the most critical business metrics and distinguish them from mere data. You’ll get a clear picture of the vital but different roles business analysts, business data analysts, and data scientists each play in various types of companies. And you’ll know exactly what skills are required to be hired for, and succeed at, these high-demand jobs. Finally, you will be able to use a checklist provided in the course to score any company on how effectively it is embracing big data culture. Digital companies like Amazon, Uber and Airbnb are transforming entire industries through their creative use of big data. You’ll understand why these companies are so disruptive and how they use data-analytics techniques to out-compete traditional companies.

  960 min

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• Technology

  Intermediate

  Razonamiento artificial

  El razonamiento formal juega un papel importante en la inteligencia artificial. Hay dos maneras principales de formalizar razonamiento: una que enfatiza la deducción (lógica), y otra que enfatiza la incertidumbre (teoría de la probabilidad). En este curso vamos a cubrir una introducción tanto a la lógica (vamos a cubrir tres lógicas) como a la teoría de la probabilidad (vamos a cubrir tres modelos gráficos probabilísticos). Algunas tareas requieren programación básica en Python: El alumno deberá completar código al que se le ha eliminado una parte.

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• Other

  All levels

  Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles

  Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles is a four-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the evolutionary changes that occur when air-breathing terrestrial animals return to water. This course examines the diversity, adaptations, convergence, and phylogenetic relationships of extinct marine reptiles. Students will explore three major groups of marine reptiles: ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs. Watch a preview of the course here: https://uofa.ualberta.ca/courses/paleontology-marine-reptiles

  960 min

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• Business

  Intermediate

  Supervision Fundamentals And Role Clarity

  This course builds the core foundations of effective supervision, focusing on how to set clear expectations, manage workload and create accountability across your team. You’ll learn how to define roles, prioritise effectively and delegate work in a way that builds ownership and consistency. Through practical tools and structured approaches, you’ll develop the confidence to manage capacity, reduce ambiguity and establish strong performance standards from the outset.

  840 min

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• Other

  All levels

  What future for education?

  Through this course you will start to critically examine your own ideas about education, teaching and learning. The critique will be developed through engagement with theories and ideas developed through educational research. You will be encouraged to use these ideas to challenge or support your own ideas about education. Each week we will focus on one key question, using video lectures, key readings and challenges to explore some commonplace notions about education. With the guidance of the course team, you will be asked to use these ideas to critically reflect on your own understandings and experience. By the end of the course, you will have developed a personal response to the main question: what is your preferred future for education?

  480 min

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• Technology

  All levels

  Build & Optimize Responsive Websites with HTML5 & Bootstrap

  Learners will be able to design, construct, customize, and optimize fully responsive websites using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Bootstrap. By completing this course, they will master key web development skills including creating logos and hero sections, structuring navigation, integrating media sliders, managing content layouts, and refining footers for professional presentation. This hands-on course is designed to help learners apply responsive design principles, implement accessibility features, and adapt websites across devices with confidence. Each module blends theory with step-by-step practical projects, ensuring learners not only understand concepts but also develop real-world coding experience. What makes this course unique is its project-based approach: instead of abstract examples, learners build a fully functional responsive website from scratch. Along the way, they gain practical insights into design alignment, typography optimization, image handling, and device-specific adjustments—skills highly valued in the industry. By the end of the course, learners will be able to deliver polished, SEO-friendly, and mobile-optimized websites that meet modern professional standards.

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