Upskilling During Difficult Times: How Do We Keep Employees Learning from Home?
By Rich Jacquet, Coursera Chief People Officer What is the future of learning and development? The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly and dramatically disrupted workforces around the world, leading to changes in the very fabric of how we work, collaborate, and learn on the job. Companies are adapting by streamlining workforces and shifting to remote models.…
Coursera partners with IFC and the European Commission to publish global study on women...
New study uncovers challenges, best practices, and promise of online learning to create more opportunity for women and underserved populations in the post-pandemic economy By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera In partnership with IFC and the European Commission, I am pleased to announce our global study on women and online learning in emerging markets.…
Announcing the Essential Skills Playbook
By Leah Belsky, SVP of Enterprise, Coursera Today we launched the Essential Skills Playbook, and I couldn’t be more excited to bring this to business and governments around the world committed to investing in skill development. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us, and with it comes a new era of digital transformation (DX)—an era…
Announcing the Coursera 2020 Global Skills Index
By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO, Coursera In a few short months, COVID-19 has profoundly reshaped our world. The economic devastation has been staggering, affecting the lives of more than 555 million workers and 200 million higher education students. As we begin to revive jobs and economies, it will be important to understand the impact of the…
New Coursera survey shows high demand for industry microcredentials from students and employers in...
By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus In a competitive and fast-changing labor market, employers increasingly expect their entry-level talent to join their workforce already equipped with job-relevant skills and hands-on experience. At the same time, university-age students and their parents are thinking more critically about the ROI of traditional three and four-year…
Accelerating Curiosity: Novartis’ Integrated Approach to Employee Learning
By Steve Sitek, Head of U.S. Learning, Novartis There’s nothing better than a personalized experience, curtailed to our unique needs and wants. Those experiences are why social media platforms are now highly customized to our likes/dislikes, why we’re welcomed by name when we log in to our online banking platform, and why restaurants remember our…
Exploring curiosity with Simon Brown, Chief Learning Officer at Novartis
Coursera sits down with Novartis’ Chief Learning Officer, Simon Brown, to learn how he and his team are fostering curious minds and a desire to learn across 130,000 employees in pharmaceutical and healthcare. Coursera: What drew Novartis to Coursera as a preferred learning solution? Simon: At Novartis our mission is to reimagine medicine, and we…
Coursera expands LevelSets offering to help organizations assess workforce skills to accelerate business transformation
By Leah Belsky, Chief Enterprise OfficerSkills limitations around high-demand technologies such as machine learning, AI and cloud computing are causing the deceleration of business transformation in many companies. Recent McKinsey data shows that 42% of companies have stuck with the status quo for their tech strategy because it is too difficult to source the talent…
Coursera Industry Skills Report highlights critical skills gaps as digital transformation investments accelerate across...
By Leah Belsky, Coursera Chief Enterprise Officer I am excited to introduce Coursera’s Industry Skills Report 2021, which examines the pandemic’s impact on digital transformation and skills development across major industries. The report analyzes data on skills proficiency from millions of Coursera learners across 10 different industries between June 2020 and May 2021. The pandemic…
What’s new on Coursera for Business – April 2020
By Adam Lewis, Skills Transformation Consultant As we continue to adapt to the new norm, here are 114 new courses and projects to pick out what’s important to you. You can try out Yale’s latest insights on why your Facebook friend is wrong about the stats they’re sharing. Or find your purpose with Michigan’s course…
