Coursera partners with IITs, IISc, IIMs to launch skill, job-relevant courses

NEW DELHI: Coursera, an online learning platform, has announced a number of partnerships with Indian higher education institutions such as Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) as well as industry leaders. It has collaborated with IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Indore, IIIT Bangalore, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and companies like Hero Mindmine, PwC India and Tally Education.

The addition of these new educators takes the total number of university partners to 14 and industry partners to five in the country, said an official notification from Coursera. The recent Campus Skills Report reveals that Indian students are interested in building foundational digital skills to secure high-growth technology jobs like data scientist, software engineer, and machine learning engineer, it said.

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Coursera has launched new job-relevant online degrees and credentials from leading universities designed to help learners accelerate their careers amid the country’s booming digital economy.

The new courses aim to build business, technology, and data science, and employability skills:

• MSc in Data Science from IIIT Bangalore: This is the first data science degree from an Indian university on Coursera. Graduates will be prepared for roles such as data scientist, data architect, and machine learning engineer. The cohort is expected to begin by the end of the year.
• Executive MBA from IIT Roorkee: Aligned to the needs of industry and designed to develop capable managers skilled in both engineering and business. The programme aims to prepare future leaders in high-growth industries. The cohort is expected to begin in November 2022.
• Global Management Programme in Infrastructure and in Operations and Supply Chain from The Indian School of Business (ISB): The Global Management Program in Infrastructure will equip learners to develop strategic plans, manage uncertainty and risks, and learn to communicate, market, and negotiate effectively. The Global Management Programme in Operations and Supply Chain is designed to meet the increasing demand for techno-business managers for the operations and supply chain sector. The cohorts are expected to begin in October 2022.
• Six postgraduate certificate programmes from the IIT Guwahati: Programmrs in Cloud Computing Applications; Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Extended Reality (XR); Digital Manufacturing; UX Design and HCI; Natural Language Processing; and Robotics and Mechatronics will help learners gain the skills needed to succeed in today’s most in-demand roles.
• Post Graduate Certificate in Machine Learning for Finance and in Strategic Supply Chain Management with AI from the IIT Roorkee – The Machine Learning for Finance programme will provide learners with an overview of ML and its application to the finance industry. The Strategic Supply Chain Management programme will provide foundational knowledge about the cutting-edge advances in intelligent supply chain strategies, driven by AI and ML technologies.

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The new industry partnerships aim to benefit learners of all stages, including youth and learners from non-traditional backgrounds:

• Hero Mindmine is expected to launch programs to help learners understand all about Insurance and the skill of selling insurance successfully
• PwC India plans to launch programmes to equip learners with knowledge in the tax domain. This knowledge can help learners secure roles and also progress effectively in their careers.
• Tally Education will help young graduates understand and prepare for their first job in business accounting with courses planned to span Indian Accounting Standards & Compliance, bookkeeping, reporting, and inventory management

“We are honored to partner with the country’s top higher education institutions and industry educators to widen our portfolio of job-relevant credentials, which will make learning on Coursera even more rewarding for learners in India and across the globe,” said Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera.