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IBM SkillsBuild - Free Courses on Cybersecurity, Data Analysis & Project Management
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IBM's SkillsBuild platform offers free foundational-level courses on cybersecurity, data analysis, and project management, amongst others. Some of the courses also give a Credly badge upon completion, if you're into that.

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https://skillsbuild.org/adult-learners/explore-learning
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Is this basically the same as the Coursera courses or a completely different program altogether?
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(09-19-2022, 12:01 PM)MNomadic Wrote: Is this basically the same as the Coursera courses or a completely different program altogether?

Very different. This is very surface-level.
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I don't see where any of them give credit
whereas the ones from coursera do

https://www.acenet.edu/National-Guide/Pa...Active%22)
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Yeah, these seem very basic or early "intro" courses to the subject just to see if the student would like to further study the topic. It's a good idea to take these if you're a total newbie... Otherwise, if it doesn't have ACE credit, having this extra badge might not do anything for people who already have higher level badges already.
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The courses don't have ACE credit. The only IBM courses with ACE credit are the Coursera ones.

Credly badges ≠ ACE credit.
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