Coursera has announced the launch of Coursera for Business, the company’s enterprise platform. Coursera for Business enables companies to utilize Coursera’s learning content, created by 145 world-renowned universities and other institutions, to help address the evolving training and development needs of their businesses.
Coursera has signed up companies including L’Oreal, Axis Bank, and Boston Consulting Group across key markets in the US, Europe, and Asia as its first customers. The launch marks Coursera’s entry into the multi-billion dollar global corporate online learning market, which is growing at the rate of over 10 percent a year.
Curated, In-Depth Content from Top Universities:
Coursera content experts create custom learning programs that cover business, technology, data science, and a variety of other skills to meet each business’s unique learning and development needs. With over 1400 courses and 150 Specializations available on Coursera, content is sourced from 145 of world’s institutions and provides both breadth and depth to meet the learning needs of a wide range of employees and companies.
Reputable, Stackable Certifications:
Coursera’s university content is structured so that employees can start with a single course and build seamlessly toward a specialization (composed of several courses) or an accredited degree. Course and specialization certificates are co-branded by top global universities, making them a lasting investment in employees’ personal brands.
Flexible and Mobile Learning Meets Enterprise Scale:
Flexibility and choice are central to the Coursera for Business learning experience. Employees can complete coursework on their own schedules not only on the web but also on a robust mobile platform that serves the needs of a workforce increasingly dominated by millennial.
Centralized Program Management and Progress Tracking Analytics:
Employers can spend less time on paperwork with features like centralized billing, group communication, single sign-on (SSO), and LMS integration. Coursera for Business also provides easy-to-use reporting and tracking tools that allow companies to measure the real impact of an employee development program.
“In order to achieve that, we aim for 50% of an employee’s development time to happen through digital or self-directed learning. We love that the Coursera platform will allow us to provide a breadth of high quality programs and a learning experience that our employees can self-select into to drive their own personal development,” said Laurent Reich, L’Oréal’s Governance and Digital Learning Director
