By Airong Cai, Data Scientist @ Coursera, and Yan Huang, Software Engineer @ Coursera With over 2,000 courses on Coursera, in just about every subject and at a range of levels, we almost certainly have the right course for you - no matter what goal you’re trying to achieve. However, finding the perfect course in…

By Kapeesh Saraf, Director of Product Management If you’re like most people, you made a few New Year's resolutions this January. Perhaps you wanted to lose weight, get a new job, learn a new skill, or undertake some other self-improvement initiative. Perhaps you’ve made some of these for several years in a row. How are you…

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…

By Jake Samuelson, Product Manager We know that Coursera learners are fitting coursework into full, busy lives. We’ve been touched by your stories of building new skills while juggling work, family, and other commitments, and we’re constantly looking for ways to help you achieve your goals. This week, as part of that effort, we launched…

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…

Over the past year, Coursera has offered courses in two different formats: self-paced (no start or end date) and flexible session-based (regular sessions that begin and end on specific days). On August 15th, we’ll be updating all courses to use the flexible session-based format. The session-based format offers much of the same flexibility of a…