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You can earn your Google Al Professional Certificate for free - and I highly recommend it
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After working through the first few modules, I had mixed feelings about recommending the course to earn a Google AI Professional Certificate, mostly because it starts with some inconveniences and annoyances. But after completing the course and considering what you get going through the whole thing, I highly recommend it.
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In this article, I'll take you through what Google and Coursera are offering and what you'll get from the process. Stay tuned to the end because I'll offer some essential tips for completing the course and getting your certificate for free. I'll also outline some of the annoyances, because they do need to be mentioned.
The Google AI Professional Certificate is a bundle of individual hour-long courses. Eight of them, to be precise:
Each course consists of a few video clips by Google staffers, one or two AI-narrated overviews, and some lab time.
From an educational theory perspective, each course is very well-designed. The sequence of courses, as they relate to each other, is also strong, with each building on the previous one.
Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development discusses scaffolding in which one bit of learning is stacked on top of another. The idea behind cognitivism is that you build knowledge one bit at a time, stretching yourself slightly as you increase understanding.
Each course in this Google certificate program does that. The earlier courses form the scaffolding for the later ones, so by the time you reach data analysis and even app development, nothing comes as a surprise. At that point, you have all the foundational knowledge to absorb the more complex concepts.
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