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AI is the hottest, most exciting technology to burst onto the scene in recent years. Its impact is so big, it is revolutionizing industries all over the globe. If you are an executive, you may be wondering how to harness AI's incredible power for your organization. Well, this course is going to show you how to do just that. This Short Course was created to help leaders in organizations harness the power of AI to create long-term value for their businesses. By completing this course you'll be able to develop and execute an effective AI Strategy for your organization that enables efficiency, growth, and an increased competitive advantage. More specifically, in this 1.5-hour long course, you will learn how to develop your organization's GenAI capability to enable the sustainable delivery of AI-powered solutions, analyze the potential applications of GenAI in your organization, identify opportunities for improvement and expansion, and apply a governance structure that ensures the implementation of GenAI solutions that are ethical and compliant with legislation. This course is unique because it will give you all the essentials you will need to turn your organization into an AI-fueled powerhouse.

With the growing number of programs available, it seems like anyone can create a web page. But what if you really want to understand how a page was created? There are great tutorials and online resources for learning web design, but most of them require some background knowledge. This course is designed to help beginners who want to gain confidence and knowledge. We will cover the theoretical (what actually happens when you click on a link on a web page?), the practical (what do I need to know to create my own page?), and the future (I have the code, but how do I put it online to share with others?). Throughout the course, there will be a strong emphasis on following syntactic standards for validation and semantic standards to ensure broad accessibility for users with disabilities. This course will appeal to a wide range of people, but is especially suitable for those who would like a step-by-step explanation of the basics. There are no prerequisites for this course, and it is assumed that students have no prior programming skills or IT experience. The course will culminate in a short final project in which you will be asked to create a very simple page with links and images. The focus of this course is on the fundamentals, not the looks. You can see an example of the final HTML page at https://example-site-1--wd4ehtml.repl.co/ . This is the first course in the Web Design for Everyone specialization. Future courses will cover market-relevant skills such as styling a page with CSS3, adding interactivity with JavaScript, and enhancing style with responsive design.

This course will cover the basic elements of questionnaire design and evaluation. We will cover the question answering process, the problems and variations of frequency questions, practical question scoring techniques, questionnaire-specific characteristics, and standardized and conversational interviewing techniques.

Today's Internet is almost unrecognizable from the early days when websites had white pages with lists of blue links. Now websites are built with complex layouts, unique fonts, and custom color schemes. In this course, you'll learn the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3). The focus will be on learning how to write CSS rules, how to test your code, and how to develop good coding habits. When done correctly, web page styling can enhance your page. When done incorrectly, the results can be worse than not styling at all. To ensure that your sites do not create barriers for people with cognitive and/or physical disabilities, you will learn to evaluate pages using the standardized POUR accessibility guidelines. By the end of the course, students will be able to sketch out a design for a given HTML page. Using this design, they will apply CSS to implement it by adding fonts, colors, and layouts. Here is an example of the final CSS page: https://wd4ewebsite1css.wd4e-css.repl.co/ This is the second course in the Web Design for Everyone specialization. Subsequent courses focus on adding interaction with JavaScript and improving styling with Responsive Design. You will have a hard time completing this course if you do not have access to a laptop or desktop computer to do your homework.

This course will improve your ability to influence people in situations where you cannot use formal authority. You will learn effective ways to build, develop, and maintain a power base in your organization. You will also learn influence tactics that will enable you to be more persuasive and influential in your dealings with your superiors, peers, and even subordinates. In addition, you will learn how to build and maintain high-quality relationships to further increase your informal power and ability to influence others. Importantly, you will distinguish influence from manipulation and learn to protect yourself from unwanted influence from others. The influence strategies you learn in this course will make you a more confident and influential leader, presenter, and decision maker. You will be more effective at pitching business ideas to senior management, influencing clients, and building coalitions among stakeholders. This course will not only give you strategic guidance on how to develop and maintain your network of influence and power, but will also arm you with specific tactics and strategies that have been proven effective in gaining power and influencing people.

In this course, you will learn how to build your team, improve teamwork and collaboration, and maintain team effectiveness through continuous learning and improvement. In particular, you will learn best practices for team building and aligning individual and team goals. You will also learn how to assign roles, create structures, and manage decision making to ensure your team achieves high results. This course will also help you manage important team processes such as conflict resolution and trust building, which have a profound impact on your team’s effectiveness. You will discuss some of the best ways to harness the productive potential of teams while reducing the risks and pitfalls of teamwork. In today’s organization, much of the work is done in teams, yet the results of teamwork are extremely mixed. Many teams are poorly designed and structured, fraught with dysfunctional conflict, lacking coordination, and severe motivation problems. As a result, many teams fail to realize their potential and often fail to perform as well as individuals working on similar tasks. Upon completion of this course, you will have mastered a set of tools and practical techniques that will enable you to effectively build, manage, evaluate and continuously improve your team. This knowledge will make you not only a more effective team leader, but also an outstanding team member.

In the past, everyone viewed web pages on roughly the same screen size: a desktop computer. But now it’s just as likely that someone will be using a smartphone, tablet, or assistive technology to access the web. So people viewing your site will now expect it to work regardless of the device (smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, or screen reader) and to take into account some common personal preferences, such as color schemes. This ability to respond to any platform and user preferences is called Responsive Design. This course will expand on the basics of CSS3 to include topics such as wireframes, fluid design, media queries, and using existing styling paradigms. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: Explain the mobile-first paradigm and the importance of wireframes during the design phase Create websites that behave across multiple platforms Recognize existing design frameworks such as Bootstrap A basic understanding of HTML and CSS is expected upon entry to this course, so it can be taken as the third or fourth course in the Web Design for Everyone specialization. Additional courses focus on adding interactivity using the JavaScript programming language and completing the core project.

Interviews in organizations are the cornerstone of talent selection and promotion practices. One of the primary goals of the interview is to understand how you would approach various leadership challenges at work, given your knowledge, experience, and previous work experience. In the context of this interview, your primary task in the Capstone assignment is to use the Specialization content to demonstrate your knowledge of key leadership skills. The benefits of incorporating Specialization content into your interview responses extend well beyond the Leading People and Teams Specialization. Reflecting on your past work experiences using the concepts, tools, and frameworks you learned in the Specialization will allow you to more deeply understand your past actions and their results. Additionally, we have selected the mock interview questions from real job interviews. In other words, you will likely be asked similar questions in future interviews. So by working through this course, you are investing in your own interview preparation and increasing the likelihood that you will do well in future interviews.

Improving veterans’ health care has become a national issue and is receiving increasing attention from the medical community. With the current increase in veterans reintegrating into civilian society, it is critical to improve the training of the next generation of health care professionals who will care for our veterans. It is widely recognized that veterans receive care from all aspects of the health care system, so providers in veteran-facing agencies, military health care providers, and civilian agencies must be aware of the unique needs of veterans. Perhaps even more important is educating civilian professionals who may not be familiar with the unique physical, mental, and emotional needs associated with military service. The audience for this course is all health care students, such as medical students, residents, dental students, nursing students, advanced practice nurses, social work and pharmacy students, and all health care professionals interested in serving veterans. What You Will Learn: This course will provide students with an opportunity to gain insight into the origins of academic medical centers and Veterans Administration affiliates, to recognize and manage the influence of bias, class, and power in the clinical encounter, and to independently examine their own biases that particularly impact American veterans. American Military Veterans. This course also includes several video clips from the acclaimed documentary Where Soldiers Come From, directed by Heather Courtney. The views expressed in this course are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States Government.

Successful decision making is based on three key elements: strategy, law, and ethics. After completing this course, you will be able to use a practical framework based on these three elements to make successful decisions in business, personal life, and leadership positions. The course opens with an example of a leadership decision: President Barack Obama's strategic decision to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. The course then shows how these three elements can be used to prevent tragedy when making a personal decision. The rest of the course focuses on making successful business decisions. Essentially, to succeed in business and your career, you must create value (strategy) and manage risk (law) responsibly (ethics). Because the legal component plays a central role in the three-part model, the course includes practical legal overviews (with plenty of examples) on the key elements of business success. Specifically, the course will show you how to: - attract the best employees, - develop successful products, - create new business models, - protect intellectual property, - write contracts that achieve business goals, and - use dispute resolution processes that improve business relationships. Using a global perspective, the course also provides an introduction to international business culture for U.S. students and an introduction to U.S. business culture for students from outside the U.S.

This course presents research conducted to improve our understanding of how data collection decisions influence survey error. It is not a 'how to' course on data collection, but rather a review of the literature on survey decisions and data quality to alert learners to how alternative survey designs may influence the data obtained from surveys. The course covers a range of survey data collection methods, both interview-based (face-to-face and telephone) and self-administered (paper questionnaires, mailed questionnaires and questionnaires administered online, i.e. web surveys). Mixed methods are also covered, as well as several hybrid methods for collecting sensitive information, such as self-completion of sensitive questions during an interview that would otherwise be conducted face-to-face. The course also covers new methods such as mobile web interviewing and SMS interviewing, and considers alternative data sources such as social media. The course focuses on the impact of these methods on survey data quality, including measurement, nonresponse, and coverage errors, and evaluates the trade-offs between these sources of error when researchers choose a survey method or design.

This course is an introduction to the finite element method as it applies to a range of problems in physics and engineering. The course covers the mathematical methods, but only to clarify the formulations. The emphasis is on coding the formulas in a modern open source environment that can then be extended to other applications. The course includes about 45 hours of lectures, covering the material I would typically teach in an introductory graduate class at the University of Michigan. The presentation is mathematical, as is natural for a topic with deep roots in functional analysis and the calculus of variations. However, it is not formal, since the primary goal of these lectures is to turn the student into a competent finite element code developer. We do spend time on elementary functional analysis and the calculus of variations, but this is only to emphasize the mathematical basis of the methods, which in turn explains why they work so well. Much of the success of the finite element method as a computational scheme lies in the rigor of its mathematical foundation, and this needs to be appreciated, even in the elementary form in which it is presented here. A knowledge of FDEs and, more importantly, of linear algebra is assumed, although the reader will find that we develop all the necessary ideas. The development itself focuses on the classical forms of partial differential equations (FDEs): elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic. However, at each stage we make numerous connections with the physical phenomena represented by FDEs. For clarity, we begin with elliptic FDEs in one dimension (linearized elasticity, steady-state thermal conductivity, and mass diffusion). We then move on to three-dimensional elliptic FDEs with scalar unknowns (thermal conductivity and mass diffusion), and conclude our consideration of elliptic FDEs with three-dimensional problems with vector unknowns (linearized elasticity). The lectures then progress to parabolic EDFs in three dimensions (transient heat conduction and mass diffusion), and conclude with hyperbolic EDFs in three dimensions (linear elastodynamics). The lectures include questions and answers from a small group of graduate and postdoctoral students who followed the lectures live. At appropriate points in the lectures, we interrupt the mathematical development to present the code scheme, which is completely open source and based on C++. Books: There are many books on finite element methods. There is no required textbook for this course. However, we recommend the following books for a more detailed and broad coverage than can be provided in any classroom setting: The Finite Element Method: Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis, T. J. R. Hughes, Dover Publications, 2000. The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals, OCZienkiewicz, R. L. Taylor and J. Z. Zhu, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005. A First Course in Finite Elements, J. Fish and T. Belytschko, Wiley, 2007. Resources: You can download the deal.ii library from dealii.org. The lectures include coding tutorials, where we list other resources you can use if you cannot install deal.ii on your computer. You will need cmake to run deal.ii. It is available from cmake.org.