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Agile Foundations

Teams that embrace an agile mindset are often better able to respond to customer feedback and shifting business needs- and this course can help. It overviews fundamental agile concepts and techniques to boost your team’s agility and productivity.

Year Created: 2024 Length:

Agile Project Leadership

This course explains why leadership is necessary in agile environments, overviews traditional leadership functions and dives into how agile leadership is different. It defines essential new leadership skills and discusses how you can transform yourself into an agile leader and help your team and organization shift successfully to agile, as well.

Year Created: 2021 Length: 41 Min

Agile Project Management: Continuous Improvement

Continuous improvement is a core principle of agile project management. A team that prioritizes continuous improvement will deliver better products, complete projects more quickly, work more efficiently, and create a culture of learning and collaboration. In this course, learn how to apply continuous improvement to your team’s practices—helping you deliver better results by adapting to change, reducing waste, and fostering a culture of learning.

Year Created: 2024 Length: 1 Hour 14 Min

AI 101

Machine vision. Data wrangling. Reinforcement learning. What do these terms even mean? In AI 101, MIT researcher Brandon Leshchinskiy offers an introduction to artificial intelligence that’s designed specifically for those with little to no background in the subject. The workshop starts with a summary of key concepts in AI, followed by an interactive exercise where participants train their own algorithm

Year Created: 2021 Length: 1 Week

AI Business School Artificial Intelligence Courses - Microsoft AI

Mars Digital College

Year Created: 2020 Length:

AI in K-12 Education

The emergence of transformer architectures in 2017 triggered a breakthrough in machine learning that today lets anyone create computer-generated essays, stories, pictures, music, videos, and programs from high-level prompts in natural language, all without the need to code. That has stimulated fervent discussion among educators about the implications of generative AI systems for curricula and teaching methods across a broad range of subjects.

Year Created: 2023 Length: 13 Weeks

AI Learning Mindmap

This is a self-learning tool to help demystify key AI concepts and provide real-life contextual examples and use cases relevant to Mars and the CPG industry

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AI Literacy_Video 1

What is AI?

Year Created: 2026 Length: 5 Min

AI Literacy_Video 2

How AI works smarter for us

Year Created: 2026 Length: 5 Min

AI Literacy_Video 3

AI and you - Smarter together

Year Created: 2026 Length: 4 Min

AI Tools for Productivity

Many people are using generative AI tools to make their jobs easier and to help them produce even better work. But it can be hard to know where to begin. Join Dave Birss, innovator and AI expert, as he practically demonstrates how to collaborate with AI tools in the best way. He shares a framework to help you understand how you can incorporate AI into your everyday tasks. He also shares a number of useful prompts that can streamline tasks and help you achieve even better results.

Year Created: 2023 Length: 1 Hour

Artificial Intelligence

This course introduces students to the basic knowledge representation, problem solving, and learning methods of artificial intelligence. Upon completion of 6.034, students should be able to develop intelligent systems by assembling solutions to concrete computational problems; understand the role of knowledge representation, problem solving, and learning in intelligent-system engineering; and appreciate the role of problem solving, vision, and language in understanding human intelligence from a computational perspective.

Year Created: 2010 Length: 1 Week

Comparing Agile vs. Waterfall Project Manageement

Agile and waterfall are the two most popular project management approaches. This course overviews the similarities, differences, and best uses of agile and waterfall. It explains which method is best for large-scale projects, which method is more cost efficient, and which projects are suitable for each style—or combination of styles.

Year Created: 2019 Length: 1 Hour 55 Min

Data Literacy_Video 1

Learn why Data is important to us @ Mars Snacking

Year Created: 2025 Length: 4 Min

Data Literacy_Video 2

Learn about our Capture, Curate, & Consume Data Framework!

Year Created: 2025 Length: 4 Min

Data Literacy_Video 3

Learn about what you can do to contribute to a better data experience!

Year Created: 2025 Length: 4 Min

Digital Literacy and Productivity Learning Pathway

This is a learning pathway that consists of 3 courses where you can choose your own adventure given your individual needs for digital literacy. Explore the fundamentals of working with operating systems, applications, and productivity tools such as Microsoft Word and Excel, and learn to confidently navigate the online world.

Year Created: 2022 Length: 3 Hour 53 Min

Digital Mindset

The digital revolution has changed how work gets done. To thrive in this context, people leaders need to develop a digital mindset. In this practical course, professor, consultant, and author Paul Leonardi shows you new approaches to collaboration, computation, and change. He highlights how to collaborate with colleagues and machines and explains how to make sense of data and share it in compelling ways. Digital technologies change quickly, and so do the skills and knowledge you need to use them effectively. This course equips you with the knowledge to develop an upskilling plan that enables your employees to learn and relearn while on the job.

Year Created: 2023 Length: 1 Hour

Digital Transformation

Digital transformation, or making things smart, is one of the biggest technology trends of our generation. In this course, instructor Bruce Sinclair tackles the big, basic questions. What is digital transformation? When, why, where, and how does the digital transformation occur, and who does the transforming? Bruce begins with some useful definitions, then gives you a broad overview of the tech required to execute a digital transformation. He shows you how to design a digital twin for any smart development project and explains the central role that AI and machine learning play in transforming data collected with the internet of things (IoT) into useful information and then covers extended reality and blockchain. He steps you through the process of designing a smart product or architecting smart operations. Bruce concludes with advice on answering the fundamental questions about digital transformation and smart products.

Year Created: 2025 Length: 1 Hour

Digital Transformation Foundations

In this course, instructor Bruce Sinclair tackles the big, basic questions. What is digital transformation? When, why, where, and how does the digital transformation occur, and who does the transforming? Bruce begins with some useful definitions, then gives you a broad overview of the tech required to execute a digital transformation. Many of the concepts he talks through can help you better understand terminology you may hear in the halls of your Mars site or in your meetings.

Year Created: 2025 Length: 59Min

Ethics & Compliance

New technologies are rapidly changing the way organizations function and the capabilities of products and services that can be provided. This rapid pace of change creates not just incredible new opportunities, but also unprecedented challenges for organizations, their staff, their customers, and society as a whole. A wide range of ethical considerations must now be anticipated and addressed. These ethical issues as they relate to technology form a developing domain of leadership responsibility known as technoethics. In this course, award-winning technology leader Jonathan Reichental introduces you to the essential 21st century competency of technoethics. Learn about organizational ethics, then begin building your understanding of technoethics. Explore the key focus areas of technoethics, including digitalization, responsible AI, privacy ethics, and more. Plus, go over practical tools and techniques that you will use as you explore technoethics.

Year Created: 2024 Length:

Ethics in the age of Gen AI

The amazing potential and opportunity of Generative AI has also brought ethical concerns. This course details how you can address these concerns effectively as you deploy tools and products powered by generative AI.

Year Created: 2025 Length: 45 Min

Foundation Models and Generative AI

ChatGPT, Copilot, CLIP, Dall-E, Stable-Diffusion, AlphaFold, self-driving cars—is now the time that artificial intelligence (AI) lives up to all its hype? What’s the secret sauce behind these recent breakthroughs within AI? They’re called foundation models and generative AI, and it is changing everything. With the help of it, some believe that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has already been achieved. In this non-technical series of lectures, we will start with a short history of AI, then move on to with what supervised learning and reinforcement learning is missing, and conclude with the deep practical and foundational implications foundation models and how we arrive at them via self-supervised learning. We cover applications in both science and business. All backgrounds are welcome

Year Created: 2024 Length: 9 Weeks

Possibilities of Generative AI

Generative AI is transforming how we create, communicate, and collaborate—across industries and disciplines. In this quick-start course, Ashley Kennedy demystifies the world of generative AI, explaining how it works, how it’s trained, and how it’s reshaping everything from content creation to business strategy. Explore real-world examples of AI-generated text, images, video, and audio, and learn how to engage with these tools through thoughtful prompting and iteration. Ashley also unpacks key topics like multimodal AI, agentic systems, ethical considerations, and the evolving role of humans in an AI-driven world. Whether you’re looking to boost creativity, streamline your workflow, or simply stay informed, this course will help you understand the power—and responsibility—of working alongside AI.

Year Created: 2025 Length: 11min

Generative AI

In this course, generative AI expert Pinar Seyhan Demirdag covers the basics of generative AI, with topics including what it is, how it works, how to create your own content, different types of models, future predictions, and ethical implications.

Year Created: 2024 Length: 1 Hour

Generative AI for Business Leaders

Whether you’re a senior executive or any aspiring leader, learning how this technology works, why it can be disruptive for your business and industry, as well as its limitations, is critical for your company and your career. Join LinkedIn’s Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen as he shows you key tools and insights to help you use generative AI to reinvent the future of your business.

Year Created: 2025 Length: 1 Hour 17Min

Generative AI vs. Traditional AI

To understand where a technology is heading, it's important to know its story. These generative AI tools are a big leap, but they’re still just another chapter in the exciting story of artificial intelligence. This course covers and development and evolution of AI over decades.

Year Created: 2025 Length: 1 Hour 17Min

Generative AI & Workplace Transformation

By now, most forward thinking organizations are aware of generative AI, but many are grappling with their own plan of how to think about and deploy gen AI in the way that makes sense. In this course, thought leader Charlene Li offers key insights on what some are calling the biggest change transformation in the knowledge worker era. Drawing from her own work with first movers and leaders across industries, Charlene dives into some of the key issues to consider, including: the impact on the work force and work force planning; job roles will go away, transform, or not be impacted; and emerging skill sets organizations will need to train for.

Year Created: 2023 Length: 27 Min

Getting Started with Design Thinking E-Learning (Essential)

Design Thinking has many definitions, but it is generally considered to be a user-centered and creative approach to problem solving. Design Thinking has grown in popularity as a way for business to solve problems. Even though it is now widely used in business and trained in many MBA Programs, there is no single definition of what it is or how to do it. That's why we have taken the time to create this introductory course for all Mars Associates - ensuring we have an aligned understanding of what Design Thinking is and how we can use it!

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Growth Mindset Toolkit

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How to AI (Almost) Anything

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise as a technology to enhance digital productivity, physical interactions, overall well-being, and the human experience. To enable the true impact of AI, these systems will need to be grounded in real-world data modalities, from language-only systems to vision, audio, sensors, medical data, music, art, smell, and taste.

Year Created: 2025 Length: 15 Weeks

How to Boost Your Productivity with AI Tools

Many people are using generative AI tools to make their jobs easier and to help them produce even better work. But it can be hard to know where to begin. Join Dave Birss, innovator and AI expert, as he practically demonstrates how to collaborate with AI tools in the best way. He shares a framework to help you understand how you can incorporate AI into your everyday tasks. He also shares a number of useful prompts that can streamline tasks and help you achieve even better results.

Year Created: 2024 Length: 1 Hour 3 Min

Information Security: Cyber Incident Reporting E-learning (Essential)

Response team can take next step action to analyze, contain and eradicate security incidents and what to do if a serious cyber incident is occurring within your computer.

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Information Security e-Learning (Essentials)

How to practice foundational security behaviors which reduce cybersecurity risk to Mars and within your personal life. Included are how to create and store passwords; workplace device safety; identifying and responding to phishing and social engineering threats. As an Associate it is your responsibility to take ownership and practice information security behaviors every day.

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Information Security Issues Management E-learning (Essential)

Everyday Mars Associates encounter security issues that can impact our finances, time, and reputation. It is important that Associates take responsibility to report issues they find. In this eLearning, you will learn best practices for the three key roles in the Issues Management process and their responsibilities to work together and manage the issues found

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Information Security: Protecting Mars Data E-Learning (Essential)

By applying best practices in our application use, storage and sharing while following information security policies we will protect Mars data and ensure its security and confidentiality.

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Information Security: Responsible Use of AI E-Learning (Essential)

Before diving into using AI, it is important to understand the risks and guidelines for use at Mars. By the end of this course, you will be able to understand responsibility for protecting Mars Data while using generative AI and why it is important to only use Mars approved and integrated AI systems.

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Information Security: Social Media Texting Impersonation E-Learning (Essential)

In this course you will learn that while social media helps build business relationships and grow our brand, we need to be alert when posting. Mars data is for business purposes only. It should not be shared with external sources. It is the responsibility for all Mars Associates to safeguard and protect Mars data and information from unwanted exposure by identifying and responding appropriately to text impersonation and social media scams.

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Introduction to Agile E-Learning (Essential)

This course will introduce Mars Associates to the Agile capability and build knowledge about how and when to use it at Mars and beyond. You will learn that Agile is a way of working guided by Values & Principles, and is enabled by collaborative behaviors, responsive approaches and specific tools & techniques.

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Introduction to Algorithms

This course is an introduction to mathematical modeling of computational problems, as well as common algorithms, algorithmic paradigms, and data structures used to solve these problems. It emphasizes the relationship between algorithms and programming and introduces basic performance measures and analysis techniques for these problems.

Year Created: 2020 Length: 14 Weeks

Introduction to Data Analytics

This video explains to beginners what is Analytics and how it is used in almost all aspects of life. From what you watch on TV to who you vote for, analytics has a role to play. Watch this video to get a more comprehensive idea. Ranked number 1, Jigsaw Academy is an award-winning online analytics training institute that aims to meet the growing demand for talent in the field of analytics by providing industry-relevant training to develop business-ready professionals. Jigsaw Academy has been acknowledged by blue chip companies for quality training.

Year Created: 2019 Length: 1 Hour 36Min

Introduction to Deep Learning

An efficient and high-intensity bootcamp designed to teach you the fundamentals of deep learning as quickly as possible

Year Created: 2026 Length: 1 Week

Introduction to Machine Learning

This course introduces principles, algorithms, and applications of machine learning from the point of view of modeling and prediction. It includes formulation of learning problems and concepts of representation, over-fitting, and generalization. These concepts are exercised in supervised learning and reinforcement learning, with applications to images and to temporal sequences.

Year Created: 2020 Length: 13 weeks

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Agile Foundations

Agile Project Leadership

Agile Project Management: Continuous Improvement

AI 101

AI Business School Artificial Intelligence Courses - Microsoft AI

AI in K-12 Education

AI Learning Mindmap

AI Literacy_Video 1

AI Literacy_Video 2

AI Literacy_Video 3

AI Tools for Productivity

Artificial Intelligence

Comparing Agile vs. Waterfall Project Manageement

Data Literacy_Video 1

Data Literacy_Video 2

Data Literacy_Video 3

Digital Literacy and Productivity Learning Pathway

Digital Mindset

Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation Foundations

Ethics & Compliance

Ethics in the age of Gen AI

Foundation Models and Generative AI

Possibilities of Generative AI

Generative AI

Generative AI for Business Leaders

Generative AI vs. Traditional AI

Generative AI & Workplace Transformation

Getting Started with Design Thinking E-Learning (Essential)

Growth Mindset Toolkit

How to AI (Almost) Anything

How to Boost Your Productivity with AI Tools

Information Security: Cyber Incident Reporting E-learning (Essential)

Information Security e-Learning (Essentials)

Information Security Issues Management E-learning (Essential)

Information Security: Protecting Mars Data E-Learning (Essential)

Information Security: Responsible Use of AI E-Learning (Essential)

Information Security: Social Media Texting Impersonation E-Learning (Essential)

Introduction to Agile E-Learning (Essential)

Introduction to Algorithms

Introduction to Data Analytics

Introduction to Deep Learning

Introduction to Machine Learning

Mars 2020 AI Festival: Day 5 Learning Resources Overview

Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge

Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative

ML with Python

Power BI Dashboards for Beginners E-Learning

Power BI Data Dashboards

Power BI Data Methods