According to UNESCO, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, 91% of all students worldwide experienced school closure. With students looking online for courses and companies offering free courses to unemployed workers and university students worldwide for a limited time, online learning platforms garnered a lot of attention. The online learning platform, Coursera, saw more than 25 million enrollments from mid-March to mid-June 2020, a 520% increase from the same period in 2019. Let’s take a closer look at this up-and-coming disruptor in 2021, changing traditional education forever.
Introduction
Coursera (NYSE: COUR) is an online educational content platform. Partnering with over 200 leading universities and companies, Coursera offers hands-on projects, courses, professional certification, and degree programs to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals and organizations worldwide. Many of the courses on Coursera are free for audit, students can access the educational content and sometimes even graded assignments for free, though they will not receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course....