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Coursera: Why Employers Are Joining Coursera’s Global Skills Initiative
Coursera launched the today launches the Global Skills Initiative today, a new program aimed at bringing top companies and universities together to advance access to job-relevant skills around the world. Coursera’s initial program collaborators, BNY Mellon, Cisco, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Splunk, and UBS, will each work with one of Coursera’s university partners to produce online courses in fields like data science, computer programming, and finance. Through the Global Skills Initiative, universities and industry leading companies work together to create a Specialization. After identifying a high demand content area, companies are paired with a Coursera partner university that is responsible for the academic expertise, creation of course materials, and the overall learner experience for the new Specialization. Companies contribute funding for production costs in addition to applied projects, guest lectures, case studies, and other materials that incorporate industry expertise…