See How Danielle Advanced in Her IT Role with the Google IT Support Professional...
My name is Danielle and I live in West Virginia where I work as an IT Asset Tracking Coordinator. The Google IT Support Professional Certificate program has enabled me to take on additional responsibilities in my role, gain more visibility with system administrators and management, work on exciting and impactful projects, and even get a…
What’s New on Coursera for Business – June 2019
By Kyle Clark, Enterprise Content Expert This month we are excited to announce a special release on top of 39 brand new courses: TensorFlow in Practice. This Specialization was developed in partnership with deeplearning.ai and Google Brain’s Laurence Moroney to provide learners with the expertise to write and deploy production-quality TensorFlow code. In addition to…
Making Time to Learn: How Online Study Fits Around Your Career
The new suite of computer science degrees from the University of London and member institution Goldsmiths offer you the opportunity to study your degree fully online. This flexibility allows many students to continue working while gaining a qualification that will support future career ambitions. We spoke to three students about how they manage their studies…
Trending Tech Skills
New technologies are changing the way the world works. As a result, governments and organizations are looking for talent with skills that will prepare them for the future. According to our analysis of global skills, demand for technology skills has increased 13% across the globe in the last year. Other important skills like Kubernetes, robotic…
In a virtual world, the sky is no longer the limit
Kayleigh Oliver began her career as one of just six women in a room full of more than 100 computing students. 10 years later, she works as a QA and Release Manager at Immerse, a virtual reality training software company. Kayleigh also runs her own app development business in her spare time. We spoke to…
It’s a Match: Essential Skills Mapped to Critical Business Functions
By Kyle Clark, Enterprise Content Strategist Coursera’s Essential Skills Map identifies the skills of tomorrow for key functions, future-proofing your workforce while helping your business keep pace with digital transformation. ———- Technology is rapidly transforming the nature of jobs and skills. Partnering with over 1,900 companies globally through Coursera for Business takes us deep into…
Meet Estella: An Up-and-Coming Journalist Passionate about Social Change
Coursera for Refugees launched in 2016 to provide free access to Coursera’s catalog to refugees around the world. Today more than 26,000 refugees are learning on Coursera, including Estella. Estella is a 25-year-old aspiring journalist living in Rwanda after she had to leave her home in Burundi. She participates in Coursera for Refugees through the…
Meet Ehab: A Peace Advocate Building a New Life in Germany
Coursera for Refugees launched in 2016 to provide free access to Coursera’s catalog to refugees around the world. Today more than 26,000 refugees are learning on Coursera, including Ehab. Ehab is a 26-year-old student resettling in Germany after fleeing Syria. He participates in Coursera for Refugees through Kiron Open Higher Education, a non-profit organization that…
Aditi’s New Passion: Making the Internet More Healthy and Safe
Aditi is a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology completing the M.S. Cyber Security program. She is also interning at Microsoft as a software engineer. Aditi is taking courses on Coursera to supplement her university learning and to further explore subjects of interest. When Aditi was 11 years old, she was diagnosed with a…
Ready Player One: Get Set for an Exciting Career in Gaming
From more traditional console and PC games to the explosion of mobile, tablet and online gaming, it is estimated that more than 2.5 billion of us play video games worldwide. That popularity looks set to continue: the global gaming sector is expected to be worth more than $180 billion by 2021. We spoke to industry…
