Coursera
Coursera Inc is an online learning platform that connects learners, educators, and institutions with the goal of providing educational content that is affordable, accessible, and relevant. It combines content, data, and technology into a single, unified platform that is customizable and extensible to both individual learners and institutions. The company operates through three reporting segments: Consumer, Enterprise, and Degrees. The majority of revenue is generated from the Consumer segment. The consumer segment targets individual learners seeking to obtain hands-on learning, gain valuable job skills, receive professional-level certifications, and otherwise increase their knowledge to start or advance their careers.www.coursera.org
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Oct 28, 2026
David DemingHOST
People thought MOOCs were going to disrupt higher education, and they weren't completely wrong.
David DemingHOST
Coursera launched in 2012, and it ended the year with 1.7 million users.
David DemingHOST
Harvard and MIT committed $60 million that same year to jointly launch edX.
David DemingHOST
And the New York Times declared 2012 the year of the MOOC.
Geoff GrahamGUEST
Like, it doesn't have to be long-form posts formed as chapters that you have someone go through on a self-paced basis that they pay a flat rate for and then get whatever they get out of it.
Geoff GrahamGUEST
You know, there's a whole... all kinds of different mode modalities when it comes to learning right um you know this especially and um and we need to to cater to more of those because clearly ai is catering to a certain modality of how some people want to learn but it's not going to to capture everyone and then other people who do rely on that still need to know how to wield the beast so to speak So we're looking at the idea of what does modern technical education look like beyond just a blog or beyond static content that's like paywalled or just video of someone reading off of a slide like you might find in LinkedIn or Coursera or something.
Geoff GrahamGUEST
You know, it has to be something that's more personal, that actually forms, you know, relationships like what you would see in a classroom.
Geoff GrahamGUEST
And that meets more modalities because that's the more accessible and inclusive route to go about it.
Flint MitchellGUEST
did I think my way into this long plan or this long complex plan? That would be another sign.
Flint MitchellGUEST
If you find yourself building complex business plans or spreadsheets and calendars to track out the next three months and you don't have... and you find yourself not taking a lot of action or falling off track of those plans, you have a tendency to overthink and overplan, right? And so it is identifying what is my own personal pattern and then saying, how can I reduce that such that when I start to think, oh, I should take another Coursera course.
Flint MitchellGUEST
Maybe I should get another degree.
Flint MitchellGUEST
Maybe I should read like this textbook.
Connor Diemand-YaumanGUEST
the Uber driver pulls over and he turns around and he says, hey, I've actually, I've heard of Coursera.
Jessica NealHOST
And then he said, yeah, I completed a course, I got a certificate, but then nothing happened.
Connor Diemand-YaumanGUEST
I'm still driving for Uber.
Jessica NealHOST
But listen, I think I say this every time I go solo, but I really, really, really mean it this time.
Jessica NealHOST
I am happy to have this guest all to myself because this is a person I got to work with.
Jessica NealHOST
I got the opportunity to work with him at a company called Coursera.
Jessica NealHOST
And he was young and bright.
Jessica NealHOST
I'm still young,
Nathan IsaacsHOST
Leah is a principal for customer experience consulting at Aros, where she helps the biggest brands design, manage, and evaluate user experiences across a wide variety of industries.
Nathan IsaacsHOST
She's also a teaching professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and an instructor on Coursera and LinkedIn.
Nathan IsaacsHOST
And Mike is the Director of Solution Marketing at Aros.
Nathan IsaacsHOST
He is a veteran of over 25 years in the tech industry.
Michael RothGUEST
Everybody was very busy, not uninterested, but they'd already signed up for all the things they could do.
Michael RothGUEST
Whereas I had a course, the modern and the postmodern that I had done for Coursera, which is another really interesting experiment we did at Westland.
Michael RothGUEST
I think we were the first for a long time, the only liberal arts college, small university working with Coursera.
Michael RothGUEST
And I had offered this class through Coursera.
Michael RothGUEST
And which was an incredibly interesting experiment.
Michael RothGUEST
And so I had all these videos already.
Michael RothGUEST
So I meet people.
Michael RothGUEST
I've met people all over the world.
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Julia ZavileyskayaGUEST
So I use Facebook.
Julia ZavileyskayaGUEST
Coursera, whatever, different ways from large programs to small programs just to know the overall buzzwords, what new or modern trends we can use for ourselves.
Julia ZavileyskayaGUEST
And another tool is conferences.
Julia ZavileyskayaGUEST
I love huge conferences.
Alan FinlaysonHOST
Massive open online course.
Andrew McGettiganGUEST
So Coursera is probably the one that's still most successful.
Andrew McGettiganGUEST
And the UK government sponsored something called FutureLearn, which was an attempt to sort of start this up.
Andrew McGettiganGUEST
And there was also a period around about 2013 where they were considering giving degree awarding powers to Pearson at Excel to roll out their provision more cheaply.
Kathryn HouseGUEST
But one thing I did during COVID is I found this online courses.
Kathryn HouseGUEST
So it was called Coursera where you could do free mini courses.
Kathryn HouseGUEST
And I started by doing one.
Kathryn HouseGUEST
I said, I'm going to go to Harvard.
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