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Coursera: Coursera Update: A New Name for Verified Certificates
Coursera launched our first premium product—Verified Certificates—more than two years ago. That launch was an exciting first step toward helping our learners showcase the knowledge and skills they were acquiring as a result of their work, and toward becoming a sustainable business. We chose the name “Verified Certificate” to highlight that the certificate could only be earned after a learner verified his or her identity each time they submitted a course assignment. Starting next week, Verified Certificates will be renamed “Course Certificates.” We wanted to streamline our certificate names, and our research shows that this term is clearer to learners, and to everyone learners might want to share their Coursera certificates with, such as employers, colleagues, and friends. In addition, we’ve started to offer identity verification in many courses for free, realizing all learners and partners should have the expectation of academic integrity in…