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  • MOOC 
    Leveraging strategies to address global communication challenges

    Leveraging strategies to address global communication challenges


    With rapid globalization and proliferation of social media, businesses and organizations are in face of enormous communication challenges. How to communicate effectively on social media, how to manage social media data analysis as well as handling fake news are definitely at the top of the list.
    By seeing challenge as opportunity, this course aims to unfold the communication challenges induced by the rise of social media in business corporations and most importantly, offer solutions to overcome these challenges. In addition, the course serves presents a vantage point to forge an interface of synergy between academics and practitioners to discuss and address global communication challenges. Participants can benefit from meaningful synergy between academics and practitioners as well as learning materials and meaningful multilateral discussions surrounding authentic communication cases and industrial practices engaging both instructors and participants. In sum, this course provides insights for business leaders, senior managerial members, and communication professionals by discussing the major communication challenges encountered by businesses around the world which in turn, helps the participants to advance their career in the ever-changing communication environment.

    Subjects:
    Communication
    Keywords:
    Social media Information technology -- Management
    Resource Type:
    MOOC
     
  • MOOC 
    Data Analytics in Accounting and Finance

    Data Analytics in Accounting and Finance


    This data analytics course takes an interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate the data analytics process in the context of accounting and finance. The growing volume of both structured and unstructured data has pushed forward a more data-driven form of decision-making in accounting and finance. In order to keep up with the Big Data era advancements, accountants and finance professionals need to have a data analyst mindset to excel in their jobs. This course will illustrate different concepts of accounting and finance with the application of data analytics. It will not only help the learners to develop their skills to ask the right questions but also teach them how to master the data and use different tools like Excel and Tableau to analyze the data. In the end, the learners will be able to interpret the results and make their decisions effectively.
    This course will use a simple framework that helps the learners to develop an analytical mindset. This framework (QDAR) has four major components:
    1. Ask the right Q uestions to address an issue in accounting or finance contexts.
    2. Understand the different data types and how to retrieve and clean D ata.
    3. Conduct different data A nalyses to answer the questions
    4. Communicate the R esults to the decision-makers using graphs, visualizations and reports.
    The whole course will cover different aspects of the framework in conjunction with different types of analyses. There will be additional datasets for the verified learners through which they can practice what they have learned during the course.

    Subjects:
    Accounting and Finance
    Keywords:
    Accounting -- Data processing Finance -- Data processing
    Resource Type:
    MOOC
     
  • MOOC 
    Introduction to air transportation and aviation management

    Introduction to air transportation and aviation management

    Aviation is essential for global business as it supports worldwide travelling and cargo transportation. Before COVID-19, the economic benefits generated by the industry across countries showed a growing trend. This course is aimed to provide learners with a broad understanding of airport services in different phases in terms of design and engineering. Learners will receive basic knowledge of how an airport operates. Key topics include the future perspective of air traffic control, air traffic flow management, airport management, facility planning, airport terminal design for the post-pandemic world and ground services.

    Subjects:
    Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Logistics
    Keywords:
    Airports -- Management Aeronautics Commercial -- Management Airlines -- Management
    Resource Type:
    MOOC