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    • B

      Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

      Políticas educativas efectivas basadas en evidencia

      Skills you'll gain: Education and Training, Curriculum Development, Teaching, Program Evaluation, Childhood Education and Development, Working With Children, Policy Development, Policy Analysis, Public Policies, Research

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • Status: Free
      Free
      C

      Coursera Instructor Network

      Building Production-Ready Apps with Large Language Models

      Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Application Deployment, Application Development, Large Language Modeling, Data Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Human Machine Interfaces, Scalability, Application Security, Information Privacy

      3.9
      Rating, 3.9 out of 5 stars
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      19 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • K

      Kennesaw State University

      Cybersecurity: Protecting your Information at Home

      Skills you'll gain: Email Security, Personally Identifiable Information, Firewall, Threat Detection, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Security Awareness, Cloud Storage, Information Privacy, Cloud Computing, General Networking, Encryption

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      31 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: Free
      Free
      P

      Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

      Sistemas y modelos de organización de la atención en salud

      Skills you'll gain: Health Systems, Health Care Administration, Health Policy, Health Care Procedure and Regulation, Health Care, Health Equity, Public Health, Primary Care, Governance, Economics

      Build toward a degree

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      17 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • C

      Coursera Project Network

      K-Means Clustering 101: World Happiness Report

      Skills you'll gain: Unsupervised Learning, Applied Machine Learning, Plotly, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Social Sciences, Socioeconomics, Machine Learning Algorithms, Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library), Economics, Policy, and Social Studies, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Analysis

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      18 reviews

      Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

    • U

      University of Michigan

      Generative AI Integration: Effects on Labor and Workforce

      Skills you'll gain: Policy Development, Labor Relations, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Business Ethics, Emerging Technologies, Customer Relationship Management

      4.4
      Rating, 4.4 out of 5 stars
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      9 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • Status: Free
      Free
      L

      Lund University

      Urban Climate Governance: Towards 1.5° Celsius Alignment

      Skills you'll gain: Environment, Energy and Utilities, Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Transportation Operations, Environmental Policy, Community Development, Policy Development, Governance, Mitigation

      5
      Rating, 5 out of 5 stars
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      17 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • Status: Free
      Free
      F

      Fudan University

      全球卫生导论

      Skills you'll gain: Maternal Health, Child Health, Public Health, Gerontology, Health Systems, Health Policy, Nutrition and Diet, Chronic Diseases, Emergency Response, Health Disparities, Health Equity, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Community Health, Socioeconomics, Environment Health And Safety

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      20 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: Free
      Free
      P

      Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

      Recuperación Optimizada en Cirugía Colorrectal

      Skills you'll gain: Operating Room (OR), Patient Preparation, Patient Education And Counseling, Patient Discharges, Anesthesiology, Surgery, Rehabilitation, Respiratory Care, Patient Flow, Patient Evaluation, Clinical Nutrition, Care Management, Health Policy, Nursing Care, Nutrition and Diet, Kinesiology

      5
      Rating, 5 out of 5 stars
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      34 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • L

      LearnQuest

      Mastering Security Management with CDO

      Skills you'll gain: Event Monitoring, Incident Response, Computer Security Incident Management, Security Management, Cyber Security Policies, Firewall, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Command-Line Interface, System Monitoring, Configuration Management, Continuous Monitoring, Object Oriented Design, User Interface (UI), Threat Detection, Computer Displays, UI Components, Simulations

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • P

      Parsons School of Design, The New School

      Sustainable Construction in a Circular Economy

      Skills you'll gain: Construction, Architecture and Construction, Materials Management, Procurement, Building Design, Architectural Engineering, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Systems Thinking, Environmental Policy, Corporate Sustainability, Waste Minimization, Conceptual Design, Digital Transformation, Environment and Resource Management, Design Thinking, Health And Safety Standards, Innovation

      5
      Rating, 5 out of 5 stars
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      19 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • P

      Packt

      CRISC: Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control

      Skills you'll gain: Threat Modeling, Vulnerability Assessments, Risk Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, Personally Identifiable Information, Risk Management Framework, Risk Management, Risk Control, IT Management, Risk Appetite, Compliance Reporting, Vulnerability Management, Business Continuity, Business Risk Management, Operational Risk, Information Privacy, IT Security Architecture, Risk Mitigation, Cyber Security Assessment, Information Assurance

      4.9
      Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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      25 reviews

      Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular policy courses

    • Políticas educativas efectivas basadas en evidencia: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
    • Building Production-Ready Apps with Large Language Models: Coursera Instructor Network
    • Cybersecurity: Protecting your Information at Home: Kennesaw State University
    • Sistemas y modelos de organización de la atención en salud: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    • K-Means Clustering 101: World Happiness Report: Coursera Project Network
    • Generative AI Integration: Effects on Labor and Workforce: University of Michigan
    • Urban Climate Governance: Towards 1.5° Celsius Alignment: Lund University
    • 全球卫生导论: Fudan University
    • Recuperación Optimizada en Cirugía Colorrectal: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    • Mastering Security Management with CDO: LearnQuest

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