Online education firm Coursera has partnered corporates across the globe, including Snapdeal and Google, to offer job-oriented courses.Coursera offers courses from top global universities like Duke, Caltech, Stanford and Princeton and had signed its first partnership in India with Indian School of Business last year.
Experts at Google, Instagram and Snapdeal are among the first industry partners to support the Capstone Projects for Coursera specialisations. They help learners develop an expertise or master new skills with university teaching and market perspective of top industry partners.Coursera offers specialisations from 19 university partners in fields including data science, digital marketing, music production and global affairs.
Snapdeal and Shazam have partnered with The Wharton School, while Instagram will work with University of California, San Diego and 500 Startups with University of Maryland.Google has partnered with University of Maryland and Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins University and iHeartMedia with Berklee College of Music have already conducted pilots.
"In a job market that is increasingly filled with job descriptions that didn't exist a decade ago or less, workers and employers alike are recognising the value of online certificates," Coursera CEO Rick Levin told PTI.
"Approximately half of Coursera's learners come to us seeking knowledge to boost their careers, and that ratio is even higher in places like India where online learning certificates have gained early acceptance," he said.
Companies help design projects with real world problems and in many cases, provide direct feedback to top performers in the Capstone, Levin said.
At the end, learners are left with a project they can add to their portfolio that demonstrates industry proficiency to potential employers and the world, he said.
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