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Coursera

Score6.8 out of 10

91 Reviews and Ratings

What is Coursera?

Coursera is an online catalog of learning content, available to businesses to help them to strengthen critical skills, Develop, retain, and advance critical talent, or use role-based assessments to identify skills gaps and advancement opportunities.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Learning content

    The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.

    Category average: 9

  • Progress tracking & certifications

    The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.

    Category average: 9.1

  • Course catalog or library

    Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Player/Portal

    Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Social learning

    Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Learning reporting & analytics

    Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.

    Category average: 9

Best quality study material

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In terms of self-paced learning, Coursera did a very good job, tracking progress, and giving feedback and assignments at the end, Coursera ensured overall development. It was also good at troubleshooting queries and help and support were provided quickly

Pros

  • Quality Content
  • Good teachers
  • Practical assignment

Cons

  • Better User Interface
  • More Dynamic and Practical courses
  • Less time for a course

Most Important Features

  • Courses offered by reputed universities
  • Classroom feeling
  • Good content

Return on Investment

  • Price worthy
  • Futuristic course
  • Good content

New job, new team, new thing to learn

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Having worked for many decades within different areas of the automotive industry, I have a lot of general knowledge, and experience and did my MBA beside working as a senior manager. However, this is a decade ago and In my new role, I am facing different projects. I use Coursera to bring me up to speed with new technology and use it as well for benchmarking when preparing Gap analyses, finding the best tools for project management and so on.

Pros

  • consistency in the set up of courses makes it easy to start and quick to go through them.
  • The variety of courses is exciting
  • Update courses when technology or software is changing

Cons

  • ability to use different browsers for assignments. You mainly have to use Chrome
  • some of the introductions are a bit repetitive and could be shortened

Most Important Features

  • Variety
  • the selection of high level experts putting he courses together
  • quality of the software in general. very reliable
  • Up to date course offering

Return on Investment

  • Using Coursera enable us to work as a small team on different kind of projects as we can acquire some fundamental knowledge about the topics
  • Very cost effective training course
  • Can be done remore

Other Software Used

Miro, Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Next level revolutionary platform in online learning for students and professionals

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Coursera offers courses from the professors of the world's best universities like Stanford University. It also offers professional as well as non-professional courses. Specializations in different fields are also available on Coursera like cyber security, machine learning, etc. It has solved employees' competency-related issues because now people can take classes from the best instructors in the industry as well as professors from the best universities.

Pros

  • Variety of courses/ certificates available.
  • Guided projects / assignments available for practical understanding.
  • Best university degree courses available.

Cons

  • Certifications fees are bit higher.
  • Mobile application can be more user friendly.
  • Time limit on courses increases the pressure on students to complete the course on time.

Most Important Features

  • Courses according to their levels of specialization such as beginner, intermediate and advanced are available.
  • Peer reviews of assignment.
  • Module based exams.

Return on Investment

  • Training, as well as certifications, needs of the employees, are managed within budget and at the same time employees gain skills through hands-on learning.
  • Coursera helps in cross-training of employees and many open positions have been filled.
  • Client satisfaction has been increased.

Alternatives Considered

Udemy for Business

Other Software Used

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Zscaler Cloud Protection, Microsoft Teams

Hard-earned certification that brings great value

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For more than 5 years, as in every organization where I held managerial/leadership positions, I have implemented employee training by developing a training plan for them in Coursera. I consider this resource the best on the market precisely because of the quality of the content that is there. Certificates, obtained on the Coursera, are not in vain valued by many companies - they are hard to get, but the person who receives such a certificate has decent knowledge.

Pros

  • Content Quality.
  • Hard-earned certification.
  • Completeness of knowledge.

Cons

  • I would like more variety of types of test questions.
  • I would like a more user-friendly interface with fewer clicks.

Most Important Features

  • Allowed us to certify the knowledge of all top employees.
  • The knowledge gained by employees was immediately applied in projects.

Return on Investment

  • ROI, of course.
  • Increasing employee loyalty.

Alternatives Considered

Udemy for Business, Pluralsight Skills, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Udacity, Khan Academy, Codecademy For Business and edX for Business

Other Software Used

Pluralsight Skills, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Udacity, Khan Academy, Codecademy For Business, Apify, edX for Business, Trakstar Learn (formerly Mindflash), SkyPrep LMS, iSpring Learn, TalentLMS, Docebo Learning Suite, Moodle, SAP Litmos, Canvas, Edmodo, Absorb LMS, Schoology Learning, eFront Learning, MATRIX LMS, NEO LMS

Best online learning platform provider in the market

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Coursera has almost all the courses that a student or working professional needs to grow. I have purchased many courses for me and my team in budget price. It has collaboration with multiple international universities to solve competency-related issues. It also provides many courses for free. We can also pay in multiple EMI.

Pros

  • International universities collaboration.
  • User friendly website / app.
  • Multiple payment options.

Cons

  • Passing Criteria is High (80%).
  • Deadline to pass a certificate.
  • Peer review system to review assignments.
  • Slide content is old for some courses.

Most Important Features

  • Coursera for business.
  • Coursera mobile app.
  • Coursera university degree.

Return on Investment

  • Client retention increases by 35 percent.
  • Client appreciation of resources / peoples increases.
  • Training & Certification cost decreases.

Other Software Used

Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform, Microsoft Teams, Darwinbox