About this Course

This six-course program, designed and taught by Google employees, will help students gain in-demand project management skills and qualify them for Project Management Institute Certifications like the globally-recognized Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM).

This program includes over 140 hours of instruction and hundreds of practice-based assessments which will help students simulate real-world project management scenarios that are critical for success in the workplace.

Modules include:

• Foundations of Project Management
• Project Initiation: Starting A Successful Project
• Project Planning: Putting It All Together
• Project Execution: Running the Project
• Agile Project Management
• Capstone: Applying Project Management in the Real World

Through a mix of videos, assessments, and hands-on activities, students will gain skills such as:

• Understanding process improvement techniques
• Navigating procurement
• Utilizing project management software, tools, and template
• Practicing Agile project management, with an emphasis on Scrum

Upon completion of this highly interactive program, individuals can apply for jobs with Google and over 130 U.S. employers, including Walmart and Best Buy.

About this Course

Over the course of 7 modules, students will learn the skills needed to become a User Experience (UX) designer, focusing on improving the interaction that users have with products like websites, apps, and physical objects.

Creating designs on paper and in digital design tools like Figma and Adobe XD, students will create a professional UX portfolio that includes three end-to-end projects through which they will learn how to define user pain points; develop ideas and iterate designs based on feedback.

Courses include:

• Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
• Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define and Ideate
• Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes
• Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts
• Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma
• Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD
• Design a User Experience for Social Good & Prepare for Jobs

Through a mix of videos, readings, assessments, and hands-on activities students will build a portfolio and gain a professional certificate.

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Over 5 courses, students will be prepared to take the CompTia A+ exams, the industry standard certification for IT.

• Technical Support Fundamentals
• The Bits & Bytes of Computer Networking
• Operating Systems & You: Becoming a Power User
• System Administration & IT Infrastructure Services
• IT Security: Defense against the Digital Dark Arts)

Participants will learn to perform day-to-day IT support tasks including computer assembly, wireless networking, installing programs, and customer service.

This program is ACE® (American Council on Education) approved— the industry standard for translating workplace learning to college credit, and students who complete it can earn up to 12 college credits, the equivalent of 4 associate degree-level courses.

Students will gain a variety of skills including:

• Network protocols
• Cloud computing
• Windows operating system
• Linux command line
• Systems administration
• Encryption algorithms and techniques
  
  ...and more

The content is highly interactive and exclusively developed by Google employees with decades of experience in IT.

About this Course

This six-course program, developed by digital marketing experts at Aptly together with Facebook marketers, includes an industry-relevant curriculum designed to prepare students for an entry-level role in social media marketing.

• Modules include:
• Introduction to Social Media Marketing
• Social Media Management
• Fundamentals of Social Media Advertising
• Advertising with Facebook
• Measure & Optimize Social Media Marketing Campaigns
• Facebook Social Media Marketing Capstone

Students will learn to establish an online presence, create posts, build a following, and manage social media accounts; as well as develop skills in creating and managing advertising campaigns in social media and evaluating the results of these marketing efforts.

Over the course of the program, students will practice skills through hands-on projects and a portfolio of work. Upon successful completion, students will earn both the Coursera and the Facebook Digital Marketing Associate Certification, proving skills in social media marketing and in the use of Facebook Ads Manager.

About this Course

This 8-course Professional Certificate will give students the technical skills to become job-ready for a Cybersecurity Analyst role. Throughout the program, students will use virtual labs and internet sites that will provide them with practical skills with applicability to real jobs that employers value, including:

Tools: Wireshark, IBM QRadar, IBM MaaS360, IBM Guardium, IBM Resilient, i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis
Labs: SecurityLearningAcademy.com
Libraries: Python

Modules include:

• Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks
• Cybersecurity Roles, Processes & Operating System Security
• Cybersecurity Compliance Framework & System Administration
• Network Security & Data Vulnerabilities
• Penetration Testing, Incident Response and Forensics
• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Cybersecurity Capstone: Breach Response Case Studies
• IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Assessment.

Through this program, students will develop knowledge of cybersecurity analyst tools including:

• Data protection
• Endpoint protection
• SIEM
• Systems and network fundamentals.

Students will also investigate a real-world security breach identifying the attack, vulnerabilities, costs and prevention recommendations.

About this Course

In education, career exploration is the process of researching, evaluating, and learning about relevant and in-demand work opportunities and how students can pursue the careers of their choice. A course of this nature can be one of the most important in terms of long-term life planning for students in any grade.

This 12-week course will focus on career pathways in 8-10 distinct industries, with each week focusing on one specific topic (industry) with industry experts, representatives from different colleges, and current college students working with students to explore career opportunities in different fields.

Considering local or regional jobs that are in high demand, students will be able to explore various industries of interest through online research, group projects, field trips, career panels and workshops; gaining valuable insight into careers of interest while also learning when a career simply isn't a good fit.

About this Course

This course will teach students how to examine the social and political issues of the moment. Students will use content from various news media formats including, but not limited to, news programs, social media, newspapers, documentaries, and podcasts to analyze current events in order to better understand the world around them.

Students will participate in a group project with the objective of identifying the causes and origins of issues relating to social justice, politics, race and equity, and human rights and propose strategies and action steps communities and governments can take to resolve these issues.

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