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      Universidade de São Paulo

      Projeto Aplicado - Introdução a Gestão de Projetos

      Skills you'll gain: Project Schedules, Project Risk Management, Work Breakdown Structure, Timelines, Risk Analysis, Risk Mitigation, Scheduling, Project Management, Budget Management, Budgeting, Project Planning, Writing, Peer Review

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      83 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Vanderbilt University

      Building HTTP APIs with Spring

      Skills you'll gain: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Restful API, API Design, Web Applications, Software Testing, Unit Testing, Object-Relational Mapping, Application Security, Authentications, JSON, Authorization (Computing), Data Access, Dependency Analysis

      4.2
      Rating, 4.2 out of 5 stars
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      24 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Shanghai Jiao Tong University

      Business Chinese 1 中级汉语 (上)

      Skills you'll gain: Business Communication, Oral Expression, Language Competency, Verbal Communication Skills, Communication, Business Writing, Oral Comprehension, Language Learning, Grammar, Vocabulary, Collaboration, Time Management, Critical Thinking

      1.6
      Rating, 1.6 out of 5 stars
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      25 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      University of Colorado System

      SRS Documents: Requirements and Diagrammatic Notations

      Skills you'll gain: Software Design Documents, User Requirements Documents, Functional Requirement, Software Documentation, Unified Modeling Language, Functional Specification, Requirements Analysis, System Requirements, Systems Design, Technical Documentation, Data Modeling, Software Visualization, Systems Analysis, Dataflow

      4.3
      Rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars
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      53 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Akamai Technologies, Inc.

      Python Scripting Fundamentals

      Skills you'll gain: Application Development, Scripting, MySQL, Data Structures, Python Programming, Program Development, Database Management, Web Applications, File Management, Programming Principles

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      20 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Microsoft

      Stakeholder Relations and Reporting

      Skills you'll gain: Stakeholder Communications, Stakeholder Management, Communication Planning, Stakeholder Engagement, Public Relations, Marketing and Public Relations, Media Relations, Performance Reporting, Report Writing, Strategic Communication, Business Reporting, Marketing Effectiveness, Research Reports, Community Outreach, Performance Metric, Communication Strategies, Presentations, Relationship Building, Data Visualization, Data Collection

      4.9
      Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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      16 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      IBM

      How to Modernize applications with IBM CICS

      Skills you'll gain: Transaction Processing, Hybrid Cloud Computing, COBOL (Programming Language), Mainframe Technologies, Mainframe Computing, IBM Cloud, Cloud Applications, Enterprise Application Management, Application Servers, Application Development, Application Programming Interface (API), Middleware

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      14 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      HubSpot Academy

      Sales Enablement

      Skills you'll gain: Sales Enablement, Sales Strategy, Sales Management, Lead Generation, Sales, Customer Success Management, Content Marketing, Target Audience, Content Strategy, Persona Development, Customer Analysis, Content Creation, Meeting Facilitation, Service Level Agreement

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Fudan University

      编剧:像导演一样编剧

      Skills you'll gain: Storyboarding, Storytelling, Writing, Content Creation, Creativity

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      52 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Coursera Project Network

      Build an Automated Landing page using AI from Wix ADI

      Skills you'll gain: Email Marketing, Lead Generation, Marketing Automation, Social Media Marketing, Copywriting, Automation, Web Design and Development

      4.4
      Rating, 4.4 out of 5 stars
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      49 reviews

      Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      Universidad de Palermo

      Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada al Derecho

      Skills you'll gain: Legal Writing, Legal Strategy, Prompt Engineering, Legal Research, ChatGPT, Legal Risk, Data Ethics, Generative AI, Personally Identifiable Information, Artificial Intelligence, Ethical Standards And Conduct, Verification And Validation

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Coursera Project Network

      Exception Handling in Python

      Skills you'll gain: Code Review, Debugging, Scripting, Python Programming, Programming Principles, Software Development

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      68 reviews

      Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    • Projeto Aplicado - Introdução a Gestão de Projetos: Universidade de São Paulo
    • Building HTTP APIs with Spring: Vanderbilt University
    • Business Chinese 1 中级汉语 (上): Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    • SRS Documents: Requirements and Diagrammatic Notations: University of Colorado System
    • Python Scripting Fundamentals: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    • Stakeholder Relations and Reporting: Microsoft
    • How to Modernize applications with IBM CICS: IBM
    • Sales Enablement: HubSpot Academy
    • 编剧:像导演一样编剧: Fudan University
    • Build an Automated Landing page using AI from Wix ADI: Coursera Project Network

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