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By: Alan Hickey, Vinod Bakthavachalam, Alexandra Urban and Talia Kolodny The challenge of expanding access to education is central to creating an equitable and thriving society. Yet, overcoming structural inequalities demands more than mere access. Research shows a significant gender gap in both enrollment and achievement when it comes to scientific and technical education. This…
By: John Heijligers, Art Director for EIT Digital at Eindhoven University of Technology. Creating engaging videos is one of the greatest challenges for online teaching, as video can create learning experiences that go beyond the classroom. The instructor’s enthusiasm and passion for the topic is crucial when it comes to creating an engaging video. As…
By: Talia Kolodny, Partner Community Manager To continue our series highlighting Coursera’s Outstanding Educator Awards, we’re thrilled to feature Dr. Christopher Brooks, winner of the Outstanding Educator Award for Innovation. Read on to discover the innovative teaching strategies that Dr. Brooks uses in the Applied Data Science with Python Specialization. #1 Teaching globally, learning locally…
By: Talia Kolodny, Partner Community Manager To continue our series highlighting Coursera’s Outstanding Educator Awards, we would like to share the unique teaching strategies used by Dr. Yvonne Breyer and her team of expert instructors, Nicky Bull and Prashan Karunaratne. Dr. Breyer leads the Excel Essentials for Business Specialization and together with her team, is…
By: Talia Kolodny, Partner Community Manager In a heartfelt speech at Coursera’s annual partners conference hosted by Arizona State University, Andrew Ng, Coursera Co-founder and Co-chair, announced the 2018 Outstanding Educator Award recipients. Addressing the educators in the room, he said: “I don’t know any other group of people in the world that is doing…
By: Linlin Xia, Coursera Senior Teaching and Learning Specialist Key stakeholders from across our partner community who have collectively brought more than 2,500 courses to life on Coursera came together at our sixth annual Partners Conference to discuss strategies for creating high-quality online courses. Below are 3 key takeaways from this year’s Course Teams Track…
Educator Product News
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