Five new Professional Certificates and expanded offerings from industry and university partners reflect how learners are preparing for the future of work. By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content Officer As 2026 gets underway, demand for generative AI and human-centered skills continues to rise, with learners moving beyond exploration toward application.  Coursera’s 2026 Fastest Growing Skills…

Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…

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Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Hollywood’s Obituary, the Sequel. Now Streaming.” by Brooks BarnesIn the 110-year history of the American film industry, never has so much upheaval arrived so quickly and on so many fronts, writes Brooks Barnes, a…

This article is part of a series by our friends at Career Karma, focused on tech industry careers. Check out previous posts on JavaScript technical interview prep, tech salaries, and technical resumes.There is no better way to prepare for a technical interview than to practice a few coding questions. It may be impossible to account…

To help the world combat the Covid-19 pandemic, Alison launched the course Coronavirus – What you need to know. In order to make sure that no one was excluded from accessing possibly life-saving information, Alison committed to translating the course into as many languages as possible. To achieve this ambitious goal, Alison reached out to its community of…