Coursera Reviews & Insights

Score8.9 out of 10

88 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Coursera are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Well-organized and wide catalog: Reviewers have mentioned that Coursera is very well organized and offers a wide catalog of courses. This has been appreciated by several users for providing easy access to a diverse range of topics, allowing them to explore different areas of interest.

Effective interactive learning: Many reviewers have highlighted the effectiveness of Coursera's interactive learning approach. They mention that the platform encourages hands-on learning through assignments that are graded by peers using rubrics. This interactive nature of the courses, especially in programming, has been praised by users as an effective way to learn and apply new skills.

Low cost of entry: The low cost of entry on Coursera has been seen as a positive aspect by several reviewers. Most courses are free, with optional fees for certifications. Users appreciate this pricing model as it allows them to freely explore various subjects without financial constraints, similar to having access to a public library of learning resources.

Coursera Reviews

7 Reviews

Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)

Coursera an Affordable Learning Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 2, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Coursera enables my institution to provide courses from well-known information technology companies such as Google and IBM, which are involved in information technology. Students who complete Coursera courses will get a certificate from the vendor and academic credit.

Pros

Students may take courses given by well-known companies.
Peer-reviewed projects and assignments are provided to help students learn in a more hands-on way.
Courses may be easily started and completed quickly because of the uniformity with which they are organized.

Cons

The expense of certain courses might be prohibitive.
Improvements to the mobile app are possible.
There is a need for improvement in browser compatibility; certain stimulation assignments only work with a particular browser.

Likelihood to Recommend

Students may choose from a wide range of courses, from beginner to advanced. Coursera is well suited for online learners; most courses are instructor, lead where due dates are included. Coursera is less appropriate for students who do not like online learning.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Education Management company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

New job, new team, new thing to learn

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 13, 2022

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

Likelihood to Recommend

To me, as someone who loves to learn, it is a fantastic tool for work. I learned about UI, reminded myself about project management fundamentals and currently learn about Salesforce to understand what it makes so successful. You also can use it to learn more about wellbeing, nutrition, etc. I pay for it myself and will definitely sign up again when my 12 months membership is over.

Karl-Heinz Meister

Senior Business Analyst in Information Technology at Cambria Automobiles (Automotive, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Best online learning platform provider in the market

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 26, 2022

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

When someone wants to learn new techniques from the comfort of their home, it will be best to use Coursera because it has collaboration with international universities at less price. The less appropriate scenario is we cannot get personalised feedback from my professors/instructors and also the discussion forum section needs to be modernised.

Piyush Mittal

Senior Consultant in Information Technology at Aujas Cybersecurity (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

If you are ready to learn, Coursera is ready to teach

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 6, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I recommend Coursera individually to employees as a very time-effective way to immerse oneself into disciplines such as data science or programming languages. It is far more effective than a 3-day workshop. The reason is because the student must invest far more time into the course, with programming assignments and projects. For the courses I'd taken, I'd estimate for an 8-week course something on the order of 40-60 hours of work.

Pros

Interaction: the student learns by doing. For programming courses, this means programming!
Assessments: the courses I'd taken ask students to grade each others work with a rubric. This is hugely effective and permits tests and quizzes to be other than multiple choice.
Creativity and enthusiasm of the instructors. Some of the approaches demonstrated real out-of-the-box thinking by the instructors. For example, the Rice Python course was a self-contained website requiring no installation of IDE on one's computer, and the final project was a working version of Asteroids.
Low cost of entry: most of the course I enrolled in were free, with an optional fee for certifications. This really gives people the freedom to explore learning. It's almost like a Public Library of Learning.
Coursera forces a weekly discipline on the user with lectures and assignments and this really motivates one to put in the effort.

Cons

If you leave the projects for the weekends, your Sunday nights could be a drag. But I list this as a benefit also, it enforces discipline on the learning process.
I hope Coursera continues to offer no-cost and low-cost learning opportunities.
I honestly can't think of any serious deficiency in the product. I am a huge fan.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's absolutely ideal for programming. Today, most programming environments are available for free and enthusiasts can tinker with programming on their own. But Coursera structures that process and presents iteratively more complex assignments to the student.

I found it useful for non-programming. I took a refresher Calculus course and the user was able to enter solutions symbolically which I found impressive.

Rei Shinozuka, CFA®, FRM®

Director Asset Liability Modeling & Strategy, Office of CFO in Finance and Accounting at Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (Banking, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Coursera... the best option!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 28, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Coursera to to keep some of our organization members up to date. We sometimes let them choose which courses they want to take (of course... it should always be related to what they do in our organization), and sometimes we choose what we think is important to learn or to be up to date. This helps to make our workers happier, because they learn, they feel they are learning new things, and of course... it adds more value to our workers, which means it adds more value to our company.

Pros

Coursera is very well organized. They are partnered with the most important educational institutions around the world.
They are very “up to date” in topics of interest and new courses.
Coursera has the widest catalog of courses, all of them with a certification given by them in name of a professional institution, like universities.
They also have programs together with universities that allow you to get a Masters Degree and Specializations. (Which is awesome)

Cons

Some of the courses (very few) have some old information (more than 2 years), and in some areas like technology the information has to be very new and updated.
Some professors or people doing videos are not good in front of the camera, they should train their people a little bit more for those things.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think that Coursera is well suited in all scenarios—for example, for people who don't have a degree but just want knowledge in specific areas. And for people with a professional degree looking for something new to learn, to be updated in some specific areas, or even new areas, it's great. And for those who are looking to get a masters degree from a well-known institution or an international one, this is a good option.

Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA

Chairman of the School Organizational Team at Paradise Professional Delelopment School and Digital Marketing Manager at Hospital Herrera Llerandi in Marketing at Paradise Professional Delelopment School (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Coursera - Wealth of knowledge at your fingertips

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 10, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Courseera is not used officially by our organization. Its not like we have a contract with them. But me and my colleagues have taken courses from there. I have taken courses from it when I was a student also

Pros

Coursera's courses are extremely good. They are well designed and being a full time employee I really appreciate the fact of how well they are designed.
They have made sure that everybody gets enough time to complete it.
There is an active community which is very helpful. No matter how good a teaching material is, you might always need extra help. This community can answer your question. And also this becomes extremely relevant if you are taking programming courses
There are assignments to test your skills. This is a great way to evaluate yourself. At this point if you feel like you haven't understood something, you can always go back and refer the videos. Most of these assignments can be applied to real world problems as well which is great

Cons

When I started Coursera was completely free. Being a student it was very helpful for me. I think this free service should be brought back at-least for students.

Likelihood to Recommend

I am not sure how this will be applicable to business other than the fact that everyone can educate themselves on a particular topic.
Coursera's coverage is great, they have training materials on literally every subject you can imagine. The only one scenario that I think an organization can benefit from this is instead of sending their employees to offline training session which ends up becoming expensive, now everyone can take quality online training sessions.

Verified User

Analyst in Marketing (Computer & Network Security company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Just my feeling when I used Coursera

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

August 29, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my case, I only have taken some lessons privately through Coursera.

Pros

Coursera provides very practical and cutting-edge courses. I think it's very useful for many software engineers or architects. I prefer learning in Coursera to getting any other examinations or certificates in order to grasp practical knowledge.
Coursera can federate with my LinkedIn profile. You can show your achievement on the internet instead of some real "paper" certificates. It's great and a pleasure.
It may be not so advantageous in comparison with other MOOCs, however Coursera provides web testing. It proves your knowledge & skill is real stuff.

Cons

I feel it's slow to load course pages.

Likelihood to Recommend

I recommend it for other engineers to take web courses related to their current problems. For example, Algorithm class will be enable newbie developers to write good code.

Hiroyuki Nagata

シニアソフトウェアエンジニア in Engineering at Veeva Japan K.K (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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If you are ready to learn, Coursera is ready to teach

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 6, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Interaction: the student learns by doing. For programming courses, this means programming!
Assessments: the courses I'd taken ask students to grade each others work with a rubric. This is hugely effective and permits tests and quizzes to be other than multiple choice.
Creativity and enthusiasm of the instructors. Some of the approaches demonstrated real out-of-the-box thinking by the instructors. For example, the Rice Python course was a self-contained website requiring no installation of IDE on one's computer, and the final project was a working version of Asteroids.
Low cost of entry: most of the course I enrolled in were free, with an optional fee for certifications. This really gives people the freedom to explore learning. It's almost like a Public Library of Learning.
Coursera forces a weekly discipline on the user with lectures and assignments and this really motivates one to put in the effort.

Cons

If you leave the projects for the weekends, your Sunday nights could be a drag. But I list this as a benefit also, it enforces discipline on the learning process.
I hope Coursera continues to offer no-cost and low-cost learning opportunities.
I honestly can't think of any serious deficiency in the product. I am a huge fan.

Likelihood to Recommend

I found it useful for non-programming. I took a refresher Calculus course and the user was able to enter solutions symbolically which I found impressive.

Rei Shinozuka, CFA®, FRM®

Director Asset Liability Modeling & Strategy, Office of CFO in Finance and Accounting at Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (Banking, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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