With more world-class content launching every week, there are always new topics to explore, new skills to learn, and new ways to achieve your goals. These latest courses, Specializations, and Professional Certificate programs cover everything from digital marketing and psychology to computer science and AI product management. What will you learn next?
Business
Facebook Marketing Analytics Professional Certificate by Facebook
Ready to advance a career in digital marketing? The skills to analyze marketing data and make data-informed marketing decisions are in high demand. Now, you can learn these skills in Facebook’s new entry-level Marketing Analytics Professional Certificate program. Upon earning your certificate, you can join the Facebook Certification Career Network to connect with top employers looking to hire Facebook-certified professionals. No previous experience is required to enroll.
The Materiality of ESG Factors Specialization by the University of Pennsylvania
In this new Specialization from the University of Pennsylvania, you’ll gain an understanding of the fundamentals and history of ESG investing, and examine investment approaches informed by environmental, social, and governance factors. You’ll review private environmental governance, explore the active role that private companies are playing in combating climate change, and assess the parallels between the public and private sectors. By the end of this Specialization, you’ll know the best practices for creating a solid risk management plan. You’ll have analyzed the complex indexing and measurement techniques employed in the ESG space, examined climate disclosures and implementation of climate solutions, and gained insight into how social activism affects the corporate world in the 21st century.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The Future of Finance Specialization by Duke University
This program is ideal if you want to explore one of the latest and most important technological innovations in finance. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a new technology whereby users interact as peers with algorithms or smart contracts rather than through traditional intermediaries such as banks, brokerages, or insurance companies. DeFi solves key problems in traditional finance such as lack of inclusion, inefficiency, opacity, centralized control, and lack of interoperability. In this new Specialization, you’ll focus on the historical evolution of decentralized finance as well as the problems this new technology can solve. You’ll gain an understanding of the mechanics of DeFi, supply and ownership, and loans and swaps. Lastly, you’ll explore the leading protocols, including MakerDAO, Compound, Aave, Uniswap, and dYdX.
Digital Consumer Search and Marketing Specialization by Queen Mary University of London
In this program, you’ll learn how to optimize marketing efforts across digital channels. You’ll develop your understanding of the fundamentals of digital marketing, explore how to implement a digital marketing strategy, and learn strategies for measuring its effectiveness through marketing analytics. In your Applied Learning Project, you’ll analyze how real-world companies implement their digital marketing strategies and then apply your knowledge in a practical context through reflective tasks, case studies, and the creation of your own digital marketing plan.
Banking and Financial Institutions course by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This new course offers an excellent opportunity to explore the connections between money, the financial system, and the broader macroeconomy. You’ll learn the economics of modern financial institutions, including how they are organized, the products and financial services they offer, the risks they take, why and how they are regulated, and how this has all evolved over time. You’ll also examine how financial regulations—as well as innovations in finance such as securitization, fintech, and cryptocurrencies—may influence the macroeconomic, financial, and business environment.
Data Science
Creating Business Value with Data and Looker Specialization by Google Cloud
Are you interested in becoming a Looker Developer? Learn the skills needed to do data exploration and analysis in Looker to empower your organization to solve business needs. Throughout this Specialization, you’ll gain an understanding of how data is managed in the cloud and how it can be used to create value for an organization. You’ll get hands-on experience working with dimensions, measures, filters, and pivots to query, select, and visualize data in Looker.
IBM Data Warehouse Engineer Professional Certificate by IBM
In this new program from IBM, you’ll develop job-ready skills for an entry-level role in data warehousing and earn a valuable Professional Certificate. You can build your portfolio and get hands-on experience in your labs by designing, implementing, configuring, and maintaining numerous databases and creating data pipelines using real-world tools and data repositories. No prior programming or data engineering background is required to enroll.
Data Science for Investment Professionals Specialization by CFA Institute
This Specialization is uniquely tailored to the needs of investment professionals or those with investment industry knowledge who want to develop a basic, practical understanding of machine learning techniques and how they are used in the investment process. You will learn techniques for presenting data and the importance of the “data story.” You’ll produce data visualizations using Python, assess and apply probability concepts to investing scenarios, compare simple time-series models and understand their limitations, discover how machine learning applications can address investment problems, and understand how to apply the CFA Institute Ethical Decision-Making Framework to machine learning challenges.
Splunk Search Expert Specialization by Splunk Inc.
If your goal is to become a search expert, then this new Specialization from the big data experts at Splunk should be ideal for you. You’ll learn to write efficient searches, perform correlations, create visualizations, and leverage sub-searches and lookups. As you grow your ability to navigate Splunk, you’ll gain tips and tricks to improve search performance using accelerations, and you’ll also get started using your machine data to provide actionable reports and dashboards for your organization.
Tech
AI Product Management Specialization by Duke University
Enrolling in this Specialization from Duke University is a great way to gain a foundational understanding of how machine learning works and when and how it can be applied to solve problems. You’ll build skills in applying the data science process and learn industry best practices to lead machine learning projects, and develop competency in designing human-centered AI products which ensure privacy and ethical standards. Professionals and aspiring professionals from a diverse range of industries and functions—including product managers and product owners, engineering team leaders, executives, and analysts—should find this program very valuable.
Building No-Code Apps with AppSheet: Foundations Course by Google Cloud
In this new course from Google Cloud, you’ll get an overview of the AppSheet no-code app development platform and its capabilities. You’ll learn how to create an app with data from spreadsheets, create the app’s user experience using AppSheet views, and publish the app to end-users.
Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate course by Amazon Web Services
This program is designed for individuals who have completed training on architecting on AWS and have at least one year of hands-on experience with designing cloud application architectures, especially on AWS. This course will help to prepare you for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. You will review sample certification questions in each domain, practice skills with hands-on exercises, test your knowledge with practice question sets, and learn strategies for identifying incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Course by Oracle
In this new course from Oracle, you can advance your cloud journey with a strong foundation in core concepts, architecture, and features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This course is an ideal starting point to get prepared for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate Certification.
C# Programming for Unity Game Development Specialization by the University of Colorado System
You can take this new Specialization to learn how to develop video games using the C# programming language and the Unity game engine on Windows or Mac. You’ll learn core programming concepts that apply to a wide array of programming languages and explore different ways to apply those concepts when you develop games.
Exam Prep: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Foundations course by Amazon Web Services
This new foundational-level course from Amazon Web Services (AWS) is designed to help you assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification exam. You will learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they map to both AWS Cloud practitioner roles and to specific areas of study. You’ll review sample certification questions in each domain, practice skills with hands-on exercises, test your knowledge with practice question sets, and learn strategies for identifying incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam.
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Explore this collection and prepare to check off essential business skills with popular new business courses from Facebook, Duke University, Google, Salesforce, and more. Create exciting, data-driven campaigns with digital marketing skills, develop plans, manage budgets, and analyze risks with financial skills. With the in-demand skills you’ll gain, you can become a global commerce expert.
Whether you’re interested in psychology and well-being or biology and public health, there is an abundance of world-class courses on Coursera you can choose from. Explore these popular health courses and learn about everything from psychology and stress management to how biology impacts everyday life. You may even find new purpose and meaning in your own life and career!
Prepare for your next technical interview and get ready to grow your career with this collection of computer science courses. You can learn cybersecurity skills from the University of Maryland, or Python skills from Amazon Web Services. You can earn a Professional Certificate from Google as you learn how to develop, deploy, and maintain cloud applications using new DevOps skills, or protect the digital world from cyberattacks with cybersecurity skills, or optimize workflows and plan sprints with Agile development and Scrum skills. If you want to advance a career in tech, there’s a course here for you.
Ready to advance your career in data science? You can learn from experts at Google Cloud, IBM, the University of Michigan, and more. Choose from popular courses in machine learning, data engineering, Python programming, and even sports analytics. You’ll learn in-demand job skills from world-class companies and universities, and enhance your resume with a valuable career credential.
Whether you’re at the beginning of your career journey or looking to enhance your skillset to make a mid-career transition, you’ll find ample opportunities to gain new knowledge across these new offerings. Depending on your life and career goals, you can choose from a range of learning experiences to find the courses and programs that are right for you.