By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera
自2020年以来,我们的世界已经发生了巨大的变化。技术在劳动力中创造了新技能要求,1.49亿new digital jobs expected globally by 2025. However, students and workers need access to flexible, affordable, and fast-tracked learning and career pathways to take advantage of these unprecedented career opportunities.
今天,在我们的第10届年度Coursera会议上,高等教育,商业和政府的领导者正在共同努力解决塑造学习和工作未来的紧迫问题和机会。当我们庆祝超过1亿学习者的庆祝活动时,我很高兴分享许多新产品,旨在帮助世界各地的社区释放其在数字经济中的全部潜力。
介绍机构职业学院
I’m thrilled to launch Career Academy for institutions, a new career training academy that enables any business, government, or academic institution the ability to give individuals – even those with no college degree or prior work experience – the opportunity to learn the skills to enter a high-demand, entry-level digital job. Professional Certificates and Guided Projects, created by the world’s leading companies and industry experts, enable learners to explore careers, develop knowledge and skills, build a portfolio of hands-on projects using tools of the trade, and earn industry credentials to help them land good jobs.
With Career Academy, higher education institutions, governments, and businesses can upskill and reskill entire populations of students, workers, and employees for new economy careers at unprecedented speed and scale.
Learners enrolled in an institution’s Career Academy can:
- Earn entry-level Professional Certificates from industry leaders including Google, IBM, and Meta to prepare for 18 in-demand careers like Data Analyst, UX Designer, Application Developer, and Social Media Marketer, among others. Each certificate is designed for learners without prior industry experience to complete in 6 to 8 months on average (3-10 hours per week), fully online.
- 获得实际经验与指导项目develop skills in under 2 hours and stand out to employers during interviews and on-the-job. With hands-on learning and interactive assessments, learners apply essential skills by working with real-world industry tools. For example, an aspiring Data Analyst can practice SQL, Python, and Tableau, while UX Designers can build projects using Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Explore the right career path with an overview of common job titles, skill requirements, and average regionalized salary (where available). Learners have the flexibility to learn at their own pace fully online across web and mobile.
高等教育机构可以通过提供行业认可的认证和技能发展来帮助和留住学生,从而帮助毕业生进入需求职业。夏威夷太平洋大学,北德克萨斯大学,亚利桑那大学,德克萨斯州北部学院和阿拉莫学院等大学和学院一直在与学生一起驾驶职业学院。
“Coursera’s Career Academy is helping Hawaii Pacific University fulfill its mission to offer students a practical, innovative, and experiential education, with in-demand skills training and certificates from top companies like Google and IBM that complement our classroom content and offer students pathways to meaningful employment opportunities. As a Dean, I am assured that Career Academy participants are obtaining skills that they desire and that are related to current job openings. The student response has been overwhelmingly positive.”
– Mark S. Rosenbaum, Ph.D., Dean, College of Business at Hawaii Pacific University
“我们与Coursera,特别是职业学院的合作伙伴关系确实是一个完美的匹配,因为它适合我们对Alamo Colleges如何创新和为所有背景的学习者做好准备以实现未来工作的更大愿景。我们很高兴能有这种合作伙伴关系为学习者提供培训,以获得圣安东尼奥市高薪,高需求工作所需的技能。”
- 卢克·道登(Luke Dowden),首席在线学习官兼副副校长学术成功副副校长
Governments can provide job seekers a path to a better career and help them gain the skills they need to achieve it. Businesses can become a career destination for frontline workers while increasing diversity and internal mobility of their workforce.
“每个女孩都应该接受出色的教育。我们很高兴能与Coursera合作提供职业学院,重点是使学习者能够在新经济中蓬勃发展 - 孟加拉国和尼日利亚的一千个女孩为他们提供了高端的技能和信心,他们需要达到他们的信心他们的全部潜力。”
– Helen Grant, the UK Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Girls’ Education
从Meta和IBM启动新的入门级专业证书
I’m also thrilled to expand our catalog of entry-level Professional Certificates with six new certificates from two industry leaders, which prepare learners – even those with no college degree or prior experience in the field – for each high-demand role. These certificates are available to all learners and, in the coming months, they will also be available as part of Career Academy:
- 前端开发人员,后端开发人员,iOS开发人员,Android Developer, 和Database Engineer专业证书from Meta- 这五个证书将为学习者提供一些最重要的软件工程角色中入门级工作所需的技能。计划推出2022年6月至7月。
- IBM Technical Support Professional Certificate- 这项七道菜证书有助于学习者为IT和技术支持的职业做准备,涵盖了关键技能,例如硬件和移动设备设置,软件配置,故障排除和网络安全基础知识。
Eight certificates currently on the platform from Google, IBM, and Meta have ACE Credit Recommendation and are also accepted for credit in some of our bachelor’s degrees, including University of North Texas and University of London. We look forward to expanding degree pathways so that learners can earn eligible credit toward an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree for each entry-level Professional Certificate they complete.
我们也有launched new content and degrees和improved our platform experienceto help learners succeed in a digital-first world.
The pandemic has worsened inequality across the world. But the legacy of the pandemic could do the opposite. Online learning has accelerated, and we have been thrust into a new world of remote and hybrid work. With online learning, anyone, anywhere has more equal access to learning opportunities. And with remote work, anyone, anywhere has more equal access to job opportunities.
我们正在提供职业学院,以帮助实现这个新时代的希望,在线学习和远程工作的结合可以更大地获得教育机会和经济机会。人们经常说:“人才平等分布,但机会不是。”我们认为,职业学院将是为所有人创造更多平等机会的重要一步。
To learn more about Career Academy, visit the following websites.
To learn more about our entry-level Professional Certificates, visitcoursera.org/certificates/launch-your-career.