Coursera's most popular courses give a snapshot of what the world wants to learn. The most well-enrolled MOOCs - or Massive Open Online Courses - tend to be in business or technology. Online courses to improve time-management and remote working are also booming.
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The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report is a snapshot of the world of work now, and a look into where we are going. The latest edition comes as we are still digesting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and as we all become aware of the massive impact that Artificial Intelligence is likely to have on pretty much every job humans do. The Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi sets out ...
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Despite an increase in overall enrolments, Coursera data from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2024 shows widening gender disparities in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital skills. To harness the full potential of emerging technologies and mitigate opportunity gaps, we must prioritize AI literacy, address the persistent ...
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To help unemployed workers reskill, the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) provided free access to skills training on Coursera. Based on an employer survey conducted by the New York Business Council with the NYSDOL, the programme includes learning courses for ten diverse economic regions, ranging from finance jobs in New York City Metropolitan area to advanced manufacturing in areas ...
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By automating routine administrative tasks, AI could help streamline teacher workflows, giving them more time to build relationships with students and foster their learning and development. Technology can help teachers reallocate 20-30% of their time toward activities that support student learning. Source: McKinsey 2020.
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Coursera research in the Global Gender Gap Report 2023 also found that, despite having lower enrolment rates than men, women develop critical skills online faster than their male counterparts. The rise of remote work options, accelerated by the pandemic, presents new avenues for women to enter and excel in STEM fields.
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Coursera contributors. The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva ...
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For example, Zhejiang University managed to get more than 5,000 courses online just two weeks into the transition using “DingTalk ZJU”. The Imperial College London started offering a course on the science of coronavirus, which is now the most enrolled class launched in 2020 on Coursera.
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Then there’s online education: programmes such as coursera offer online courses from different universities. Professional social networks such as LinkedIn allow for networking, while talent platforms like Upwork help to source the best contingent talent.
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The World Economic Forum’s Jobs of Tomorrow report, authored in partnership with data scientists at partner companies LinkedIn and Coursera, presented for the first time a way to measure and track the emergence of a set of new jobs across the economy using real-time labour market data. 35 The data from this collaboration identified 99 jobs that are consistently growing in demand across 20 ...
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