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With more world-class content launching every week, there are always new topics to explore, new skills to learn, and new ways to achieve your goals. These latest courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and MasterTrack™ Certificates cover everything from AI, blockchain, and cybersecurity, to contact tracing, social work, and UX design. What will you learn next?  Business…

We’d like to introduce you to Amie Hanbury. In the story she shares below, Amie describes how COVID-19 caused her to reevaluate her career, and how learning on Coursera gave her both the confidence and the skills to pursue a new opportunity. With the support of her family, and driven by a desire to make…

Launching a new career can be an exhilarating process, but also a complicated one. One of the most important steps is the first one—choosing which career to pursue. Whether you’re a college student getting ready to join the workforce for the first time, a mid-career professional looking to make a career switch, or someone returning…

Today, we’re happy to announce that Coursera has raised $130 million as part of the  Series F up round. This financing brings the company’s cash balance to more than $300 million. The round was led by NEA and joined by existing investors Kleiner Perkins, SEEK Group, Learn Capital, SuRo Capital Corp, and G Squared.    Coursera,…

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…

Con la continua amenaza del COVID-19, los gobiernos de todo el mundo están aumentando los esfuerzos para controlar la propagación del virus y en muchas comunidades, esto significa ampliar rápidamente las capacidades de rastreo de contacto. En mayo, la Escuela de Salud Pública Bloomberg de la Universidad Johns Hopkins, lanzó un curso gratuito en línea…

By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer at Coursera Read this post in Spanish and Portuguese.  With the continued threat of COVID-19, governments around the world are increasing efforts to manage the spread. In many communities, this means quickly expanding contact tracing capabilities. In May, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins…

Por Betty Vandenbosch, chefe de conteúdo da Coursera  Com a contínua ameaça da Covid-19, vários países têm aumentado esforços para conter a doença e, para muitos deles, isso significa expandir sua capacidade de rastrear a contaminação. Diante disso, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health lançou, em maio, o curso online gratuito COVID-19 Contact…

By Jane McGonigal, PhD, Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and lead instructor of the Futures Thinking Specialization If the year 2020 has shown us anything so far, it’s that we all need to get better at expecting the unexpected.  The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work,…

My name is Lauren Parker and I am an IT Specialist at Sage Software in Oregon. When I began college a few years ago, I thought I wanted to be a mechanical engineer. After two very difficult terms, despite my best grades being in engineering courses, I discovered that mechanical engineering wasn’t really what I…