By Kyle Clark, Senior Skills Transformation Consultant Coursera’s university and industry partners launched over 50 courses in December to round out 2019. Our new courses range in topic from the data-heavy – including new AI, cloud, and analytics courses – to cultural intelligence, public health, security management, and business English. Here are our top picks […]
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City Planners Zero in on Cyclists Through Exercise App
With 47m global users Strava has the potential to generate big data for public development [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled]. From a report: When the UK capital built a “cycle superhighway” in 2016, Strava indicated where people had changed their route and showed that the number of cyclists increased by 60 per cent when a bike-only lane was built…
Chinese Online Streaming Service iQiyi Says AI Has Enhanced Efficiency Throughout Its Business
Wang Xuepu, vice president of Chinese online video streaming company iQiyi, says that artificial intelligence has enhanced the company’s efficiency in all aspects of the business. From a report: “Now we can cut thousands of hours of work to just hours,” Wang said in Mandarin at CNBC’s East Tech West conference in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, China. He said that…
Getting an MCS Part II – What is the program like?
When preparing to apply for an online MCS, students often ask the essential question – am I prepared for this degree program? In part two of this three part “Getting an MCS” series, we will be going in-depth on how to prepare for the MCS program once you have applied. Once you have applied to […]
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The Year of AI: End of Year Round-Up 2019
Trends from 45 million learners on Coursera show nearly two million enrollments in AI-related content in 2019, AI for Everyone breaks into the top ten list in its first year By Dil Sidhu, Chief Content Officer at Coursera When it comes to popularity and demand, tech-centric courses like artificial intelligence and data science consistently rank […]
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Announcing the Essential Skills Playbook
By Leah Belsky, VP 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 […]
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A community of possibility: how you’re redefining what’s possible
We love learning from the Coursera Community and we are excited to share updates from the Coursera Learner Outcomes Survey*: 87% of career builders report benefits like getting a promotion, receiving a raise, or starting a new career 92% of education seekers report benefits like identifying a field of study or being better prepared for […]
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Some Colleges Are Using Students’ Smartphones To Track Their Locations on Campus
Lee Gardner, reporting for Chronicle: James Dragna had his work cut out for him when he became “graduation czar” at California State University at Sacramento, in 2016. The university’s four-year graduation rate sat at 9 percent. It hadn’t moved in about 30 years, he says. Like many student-success experts at public colleges these days, Dragna combed through academic data about students…
HSE and Coursera Announce Russia’s First Top-Tier Online Master’s in Data Science
By Dil Sidhu, Chief Content Officer at Coursera In a digital-first world, Russia is uniquely poised to benefit from learning technology and data science skills, delivered online to meet the needs of learners anywhere. According to McKinsey, over 50% of work activities are at the risk of automation in Russia. This, coupled with demographic challenges […]
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Wells Fargo Prediction: American Banks Will Automate Away 200,000 Jobs By 2030
An anonymous reader quotes Gizmodo: Over the next decade, U.S. banks, which are investing $150 billion in technology annually, will use automation to eliminate 200,000 jobs, thus facilitating “the greatest transfer from labor to capital” in the industry’s history. The call is coming from inside the house this time, too — both the projection and the quote come from a recent…