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      Cisco Learning and Certifications

      Security Operations Center (SOC)

      Skills you'll gain: Threat Modeling, Threat Detection, Cyber Operations, Cybersecurity, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Incident Response, Security Management, Computer Security Incident Management, Cyber Attacks, Event Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Automation

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      277 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Johns Hopkins University

      Planning a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety III)

      Skills you'll gain: Solution Design, Patient Flow, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Patient Safety, Creative Problem-Solving, Innovation, Brainstorming, User Centered Design, Collaboration, Empathy

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      191 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Scrimba

      Build AI Apps with ChatGPT, Dall-E, and GPT-4

      Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Version Control, OpenAI, GitHub, ChatGPT, Generative AI, Application Programming Interface (API), Real Time Data, Artificial Intelligence, Image Analysis, Application Security

      4.4
      Rating, 4.4 out of 5 stars
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      163 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Yale University

      Music and Social Action

      Skills you'll gain: Aesthetics, Music History, Liberal Arts, Music, Social Justice, Performing Arts, Social Studies, Pedagogy, Public Affairs, Cultural Diversity, Socioeconomics, Community Development, Classical Music

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      179 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • U

      University of Copenhagen

      Academic Information Seeking

      Skills you'll gain: Research, Investigation, Record Keeping, Data Collection, Document Management, Information Management, Intellectual Property

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      749 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      University of Lausanne

      Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences

      Skills you'll gain: Laboratory Testing, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Culture, Social Sciences, Sociology, Arbitration, Cultural Diversity, Law, Regulation, and Compliance, Ethical Standards And Conduct, Governance, Behavioral Economics

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      364 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • E

      ESCP Business School

      Comprendre l'écologie, pour une économie innovante

      Skills you'll gain: Environmental Issue, Energy and Utilities, Environmental Policy, Environmental Science, Environment and Resource Management, Social Studies, Economics, Systems Thinking, Public Health, Innovation

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      323 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Microsoft

      Generative AI for Data Scientists

      Skills you'll gain: Generative AI, Microsoft Copilot, Natural Language Processing, Data Quality, Anomaly Detection, Data Storytelling, Data Ethics, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Presentation, OpenAI, Data Pipelines, Prompt Engineering, Data Cleansing, Data Visualization Software, Data Synthesis, Data Analysis, Communication, Data Validation, Large Language Modeling

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      48 reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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      Northeastern University

      Healthcare Analytics Essentials

      Skills you'll gain: Health Informatics, Business Analytics, Analytics, Patient Safety, Health Care, Health Administration, Healthcare Industry Knowledge, Statistical Analysis, Business Intelligence, Quantitative Research, Performance Measurement, Performance Metric, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Descriptive Analytics, Peer Review, Data Collection

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      33 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

      Introduction to Applied Business Analytics

      Skills you'll gain: Business Workflow Analysis, Business Analytics, Data Processing, Exploratory Data Analysis, Business Process, Descriptive Statistics, Jupyter, Data Visualization, Data Manipulation, Data Cleansing, Pandas (Python Package), Data Transformation, Data Presentation, Technical Communication, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Integrated Development Environments, Python Programming, Data Structures

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      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      286 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Johns Hopkins University

      Systems Science and Obesity

      Skills you'll gain: Systems Thinking, Epidemiology, Systems Analysis, Simulations, Network Analysis, Public Health, Network Model, Agentic systems, Social Sciences, Behavioral Health, Economics, Software Installation

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      205 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      University of California San Diego

      Number Theory and Cryptography

      Skills you'll gain: Cryptography, Key Management, Encryption, Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), Cybersecurity, Arithmetic, Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, Computational Thinking, Algebra, Applied Mathematics, Python Programming

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      607 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular critical thinking courses

    • Security Operations Center (SOC): Cisco Learning and Certifications
    • Planning a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety III): Johns Hopkins University
    • Build AI Apps with ChatGPT, Dall-E, and GPT-4: Scrimba
    • Music and Social Action: Yale University
    • Academic Information Seeking: University of Copenhagen
    • Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences: University of Lausanne
    • Comprendre l'écologie, pour une économie innovante: ESCP Business School
    • Generative AI for Data Scientists: Microsoft
    • Healthcare Analytics Essentials : Northeastern University
    • Introduction to Applied Business Analytics: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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