By Leah Belsky, Vice President of Global Business Development, Coursera Cloud computing is one of today’s hottest career paths. With companies rapidly shifting their infrastructure to the cloud, the demand for cloud computing experts is enormous. In fact, adoption of cloud technology is often limited not by cost, complexity, or security, but by the shortage…
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Roy Raanani drew on concepts, skills, and connections from Stanford University’s Machine Learning course on Coursera to found his startup, Chorus.ai. Here’s his story: After my wife took a job opportunity in Switzerland, I quit my job as a business consultant and moved to a remote Swiss village with her and our newborn. The move…
Sam learned web development on Coursera and transformed his career. Here’s his story: Sam thought he’d found his dream job when he signed a contract to travel the world as a drummer. After a few years of living out of a suitcase, though, he realized he needed a more stable career. He knew musicians…
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…
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab spend their time printing swarms of modular robots, making smartphones fly, designing the next generation of bio-inspired technologies, and advancing the state of the art in perception and machine learning. A team of GRASP faculty is also behind the six-course Robotics Specialization on Coursera, which teaches learners…
Team collaboration company Atlassian, creator of leading software products JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence, and Hipchat, is teaming up with Coursera to grow the community of software developers by giving motivated learners the opportunity to build new technical skills. For a limited time only, learners who sign up for computer science courses on Coursera will receive 50%…