Coursera

Score8.9 out of 10

88 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

Learning content
The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.
Category average: 8.7
Progress tracking & certifications
The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.
Category average: 8.6
Course catalog or library
Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.
Category average: 8.6

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: 8.1
Social learning
Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.
Category average: 7.9
Learning reporting & analytics
Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.
Category average: 8.3

Shruti Singh

Software Engineer in Information Technology at Infosys Limited (10,001+ employees employees)

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

Karl-Heinz Meister View profile

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

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

Piyush Mittal

Consultant in Information Technology at UIDAI (1001-5000 employees employees)

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

Oleksandr Torlo View profile

Chief Technology Officer in Engineering at Koshelok (1-10 employees employees)

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

Piyush Mittal View profile

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

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

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LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

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Learning reporting & analytics

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