By Betty Vandenbosh, Chief Content Officer The pandemic has changed the speed at which higher education is evolving and the…
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By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer I was honored to host our ninth annual Coursera Conference. This year’s virtual format enabled something extraordinary: thousands of people from around the world came together with one common goal: building a more just world together through education. We had more than 100 speakers from 60 institutions and 18…
The World Economic Forum predicts that 42% of the core skills within existing jobs on average are expected to change by 2022. Lifelong learning and continuous retraining, delivered through online learning, can help meet these evolving skill demands. Online platforms can be a powerful tool for universities to engage with learners--from alumni and faculty to…
The science behind how we teach others and how we learn ourselves is nothing short of a fascination for many of us. As much of the world moved to online work and study out of necessity and safety, that fascination has only grown deeper. While it’s tempting to call online learning a necessary but secondary…
In the wake of the pandemic, blended learning models that integrate face-to-face and online instruction have been widely adopted. Universities around the world can supplement on-campus programs with online capabilities to: Engage students with content and certifications from top universities and companies—online, offline, and on mobileBuild their own credit-eligible courses in core curriculum or for…
By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer at Coursera The pandemic has accelerated the rate at which universities worldwide are investing in online learning. To meet learner demand and changing expectations, your institution might be deciding with a renewed conviction to bring some of your most valued credentials online — your degree programs. Universities now…
Over the last year, the pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for universities. As campuses shuttered around the globe, emergency response teams jumped into action by implementing “remote teaching” stopgaps to keep, at the peak of the pandemic, more than 1.6 billion students learning. Universities and colleges globally have refocused or will need to refocus on…
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By Kapeesh Saraf, Director of Product Management & Claire Smith, Community Manager Coursera was founded to help anyone, anywhere transform their life through access to the world’s best education. We’ve always known that education is more than just content - that the most effective learning experiences include discussion and debate, and that sometimes you need ...read more
By Christine Wong, Product Manager When you take a course on Coursera, we want you to have the opportunity to work on challenging, hands-on projects – so that when you finish, you know you’re ready to apply your skills in the real world. But we also know that working up to those big projects takes ...read more
Since we launched our first Specializations in 2014, we’ve worked with our partners to integrate practical, hands-on projects into every Specialization curriculum. Today, we’re excited to announce a few changes that will make those hands-on experiences more impactful and accessible for all learners, which you’ll start to see incorporated in the new group of Specializations ...read more