product update

By Janani Subramanian, Senior Product Manager, Coursera Embarking on a new chapter of your career journey can be a powerful emotional experience. You may feel excitement and anticipation, but also anxiety and stress. Whether you’re looking for your first job, pursuing a promotion, or contemplating a mid-career switch to a new field, there are always…

By Shravan Goli, Chief Product Officer Learners around the world are turning to online learning at this particularly challenging time. Overnight, universities have switched to remote teaching in order to provide academic continuity to their students. In the past month, 5.9 million learners enrolled in courses on Coursera and nearly 2,700 institutions launched Coursera for…

By Emily Glassberg Sands, VP of Data Science at Coursera, and Marianne Sorba, Data Scientist at Coursera Since we launched the Coronavirus Response Initiative on March 12, more than 2,600  colleges and universities around the world have activated Coursera for Campus programs to take learning online and minimize student disruption. We’re humbled by the global…

By Shwetabh Mittal We’re excited to share our newest features as part of our Q1 product release.  These features provide you with valuable data and insights to assess the performance of your learning program and the program management tools to engage with your learners at scale. These features include:  A redesigned homepage that displays your…

by Anubhav Chopra, Lead Product Manager, Consumer Everyone comes to Coursera with a unique learning goal. Some learners want just a single course on a specific topic, while others, like Sagi from Jakarta, take well over 20 courses in a variety of domains. Now, through Coursera Plus, a new subscription program that we’re piloting, learners…

By Jennifer Wolochow, Senior Product Manager at Coursera Coursera is committed to helping our 200+ university and industry partners create transformational learning experiences. Authoring and managing courses is a vital aspect to our platform, and the tools to do so are used by thousands of partners on a weekly, if not daily, basis. That’s why…

By Alex Sanchez, Product Management, Mobile Experiences and Emerging Technology at Coursera No two learner journeys are the same. We’ve seen great diversity across learners in their preferred times, days, and learning session lengths, while some choose to learn via desktop and others embrace mobile. In other words, the flexible options provided by Coursera are…

By Alex Sanchez, Senior Product Manager for Mobile Experiences and Emerging Technology, Coursera For those who learn at night, in low-light settings, or just love dark mode, we’re happy to say it’s here for Coursera learners! Dark mode support for the Coursera app on iPhone and iPads running on iOS 13 is live.  The Coursera…

By Alex Sanchez, Product Management, Mobile Experiences and Emerging Technology at Coursera Today, we’re excited to announce a skill for Amazon Alexa that will help learners keep up in courses and achieve their personal and professional goals. Starting next month, learners can access course assignment and quiz scores, due dates, and progress updates by simply…

Ken Sun, Director of Product Management, Coursera What did you learn in your last course on Coursera? What were the important concepts presented each week? Could you draw one graph the instructor used? If recalling these facts feels tough, you’re not alone. Humans tend to lose 40% of information within the first 24 hours after…