Share your learning story with Coursera
Has learning on Coursera impacted your life in any way, big or small? Whether you transformed your career, created change in your community, or came to see the world a little differently, we want to hear your story! To submit your story, please fill out this short form (or open survey in browser): While we…
See how Ramone used online learning to supplement his academic and career pursuits
Meet Ramone, a learner in New York who’s taking courses on Coursera to supplement his PhD program, and to improve his career coaching skills. He shares his story below. Enhancing my knowledge My goal for learning on Coursera was to access additional resources to complete my course work for my PhD. I am a Doctoral…
Sydney’s Career Story: Turning a Setback into a Step Forward
Being laid off from a job is never easy, and it’s become an all-too-common experience for so many during COVID-19. When it happened to Sydney, she used it as an opportunity to pursue her passion for learning more about marketing. She gained new skills, and began volunteering for a non-profit. Seven weeks later, she’d landed…
How Ken’s using Guided Projects to continue building in-demand career skills
Meet Ken, a workforce management specialist and instructor who’s learning on Coursera while living in Ireland. In a recent interview, he spoke with us about how he’s using Guided Projects—Coursera’s new short, hands-on learning experiences—to continue building relevant career skills. Ken, thank you for taking the chance to talk with us! Can you start by…
Discover how the Google IT Support Professional Certificate helped Jason pursue a Bachelor’s degree...
My name is Jason Niro, and I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I graduated from Bay State College, in Boston, with a bachelor’s degree in entertainment management with a recording arts concentration. After graduation, I moved to Southern California to pursue a career as an Audio Engineer. While I was interning at a few record…
How Wesley went from Part-Time Cook to Full-Time IT Support Technician
My name is Wesley Mercado, and I live in Los Angeles, California. Before completing the Google IT Support Professional Certificate on the Coursera platform, I had no prior experience in IT Support. Now, I work as an IT Support Technician at a healthcare call center in Beverly Hills. I did not grow up as a…
See how Rayan found a new career path in digital marketing
Meet Rayan, a 26-year-old marketing analyst from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In this post, he discusses his journey to a successful digital marketing career, and how his commitment to learning new skills on Coursera helped make it possible. Ready for a change After completing my Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics in 2016, I stayed unemployed for two…
Building practical skills through hands-on projects
Meet Paras, an aspiring data scientist learning from Mumbai. See how he used hands-on projects and exercises from his courses to build in-demand skills and accelerate his data career. In his own words, here’s his story. I started taking courses on Coursera because I wanted to gain practical skills and apply them to what I’ve…
Building a career in data science
Meet data scientist, lifelong learner, and AI Community Leader Mo who has completed more than 40 courses on Coursera! Recruiters contacted him and chose him out of 200 other candidates to be a co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at an AI startup after seeing his certificates from the Deep Learning Specialization and TensorFlow in Practice…
How Alexander advanced his IT career with a Professional Certificate
My journey with information technology growing up in Sierra Leone I grew up in Sierra Leone in the 1990s, at a time when computers were a luxury and largely inaccessible. I got lucky when I was eleven and was able to use the computer for the first time when my mother was assigned a work…
