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Analysis of Cousera: Coursera

Coursera is an online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), specializations, and degrees. Coursera partners with universities and organizations to provide online courses in various subjects like engineering, data science, business, and more. Courses include video lectures and are available for free or for a fee. Coursera aims to make high-quality education accessible to everyone.

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Analysis of Cousera: Coursera

Coursera is an online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), specializations, and degrees. Coursera partners with universities and organizations to provide online courses in various subjects like engineering, data science, business, and more. Courses include video lectures and are available for free or for a fee. Coursera aims to make high-quality education accessible to everyone.

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Analysis of cousera

Coursera​ is an American online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford


professors ​Andrew Ng​ and ​Daphne Koller​ that offers ​massive open online courses
(MOOC), specializations, and degrees.
Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses,
specializations, and degrees in a variety of subjects, such as ​engineering​, ​data science​,
machine learning​, ​mathematics​, ​business​, ​computer science​, ​digital marketing​,
humanities​, ​medicine​, ​biology​, ​social sciences​, and others.Coursera is keen to make
education accessible to everyone. It offers free courses online from world’s top-class
universities such as the University of Michigan, Princeton University, etc. Lectures are in
series in the form of 15-minute long clips.

Features available to Coursera Organization users

● Company branded, curated learning program experience for employees


● One can customize the learning programs with your company logo and banner
image. You can also choose which courses to include in your program to ensure that
it meets your organization's learning and development goals.
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● Extended timeline for course completion
● Employees in a Coursera Organization plan will have until the end of the 1 year plan
to complete their courses. (Learners taking a course through our public course
catalog have 6 months from time of personal payment to complete a course.)
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● Learning program centralized payment & budget management
● Coursera Organization plans eliminate the need to reimburse employees individually.
Paying quarterly provides budget predictability.
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● Efficient program utilization
● Coursera Organization plans let you optimize program usage by ​swapping out
employees​ as needed. Since payments made for individual accounts cannot be
transferred to other accounts, Coursera Organization plans are the only way to
get flexibility to add or remove learners without making additional payments.
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● Additional features available for large organizations:
● If you set up a large organization plan, you'll also get access to additional
features and options.
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● Employee course activity and grades tracking and reporting
● One can see who makes progress in the course and support them to get
unstuck as needed.
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● Dedicated Account Managers
● For large organization plans, a dedicated Account Manager will be your main point of
contact from launch to the end of the contract.
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● Content Strategy and Pedagogy Expert consultation
● Together with your dedicated Account Manager, Pedagogy Experts will provide
curriculum recommendations that best meet organizational needs.
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● Deployment support and training
● Team of Technical Account Managers will provide platform training prior to launch
and platform support for the duration of your contract.
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● Integration options for your Learning Management System
● Large organizations are able to use a single sign-on via SAML 2.0 (SP-initiated) and
system integrations via API.
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● Coursera has collaboration with many other leading universities
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● Coursera has curated course collections that include digital marketing,data
science, digital transformation,machine transformation , web
development,machine learning and artificial intelligence to enable the
workforforce have the skills required.
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● Coursera has a collection of popular courses relevant to the present industry
standards with detailed information on each and every corse.
● The site provides a free demo also to demonstrate course content to the users.
They just need to sign up for the page.
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● The coursera content is designed for campus that enables world class online
education,cutting edge content to map learner's needs and for government
purpose as well as business purpose.Coursera helps organizations and countries
gain a competitive edge by providing in-demand skills and learning paths to new
jobs for the entire workforce. With content from global thought leaders and
experience implementing national learning programs, Coursera is a trusted
partner for skills transformation.
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● There is a section of coursera blog where there are latest updates on
business,new courses and specialisation,Q and A session,and various other
blogs updated from time to time.
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● Cousera is quite active in media and weekly updates given to media as to what’s
new is happening.This feature should also be adapted in the vm website.
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● The course content available is levelled up with expert curated content that
provides an edge to the employees
● Coursera has provided testimonials from its users to provide authentic review of
the website also.
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● .AI chatbots-

With growing Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots are helping us to find products, places,
food and even solving customer service issues. ​Chatbots​ can convince you of
remarkable things like the necessity of clicking a link or they are humans, not robots.
Automation using bots allows companies to minimize their costs while still maintaining a
high price point, thanks to the ease of use and quality of service.
Some of the courses available are-
Courses may be searched by category; almost every subject is covered in the diverse 
range of titles from which self-starters can choose for their studies. Most courses are 
available in English, while a minority is available in Chinese. Many titles are available 
free of charge, with subjects ranging from computer science to the history of art. 
Business, maths and logic or physical science and engineering are complemented by 
social sciences, language learning and even teaching, such as with TESOL Certificates 
in staged parts. 

Business English Communication Skills or Intermediate Grammar (University of 


California) are on offer in the course listings, along with an abundance of alternative 
titles including the chance to learn Mandarin Chinese, perhaps best suited for 
thosestudents with a certain linguistic ability and a degree of motivation. Online courses 
such as these are especially of value to students who are interested in foreign culture 
as well as in learning a particular language, or who plan to travel to a country for travel 
or business. 

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