By Rebecca Quintana, PhD, Learning Experience Designer at the University of Michigan What would it look like for university students…
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Maya Adam, M.D. is a lecturer at Stanford University School of Medicine and instructor of a new course, Health Across the Gender Spectrum, on Coursera. Through a series of illustrated personal stories, Health Across the Gender Spectrum explores a wide variety of health issues faced by transgender children. She recently published Five Things That Can…
Robert Shiller, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, is the instructor of Financial Markets, one of the most popular courses on Coursera. We sat down to talk with him about what it’s like to win a Nobel Prize, why he decided to teach online, and what learners can expect from his new…
Below is an excerpt from a piece that was recently published on Forbes by Peter Todd, Dean of HEC Paris The ever-accelerating pace of online technology has completely changed the way we work, entertain ourselves, communicate and connect. And now it is revolutionizing the way we learn. Of course, digital technology in education, and in…
What are the benefits of creating an open online course? Can teaching online actually benefit your on-campus courses and career? Brian Caffo, professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University and one of three instructors of the popular Data Science Specialization on Coursera, recently shared some of his answers to these questions. When we asked…
By Talia Greenblatt-Kolodny, Coursera Partner Learning and Development Manager, and Barbara Oakley, Ramón y Cajal Distinguished Scholar of Global Digital Learning at McMaster University When Barbara Oakley was experimenting in her basement with a new camera and an inexpensive green cloth, she never imagined her Coursera course, Learning How to Learn would become the world’s most popular open…
by Alexandra Urban, Coursera Teaching and Learning Specialist, & Talia Greenblatt-Kolodny, Coursera Partner Learning and Development Manager Courses on Coursera are reaching millions worldwide, but not all learners are making it all the way through to completion. How can we help more learners succeed? The Coursera Teaching & Learning team has recently partnered with several university…
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