Coursera Launches Clips to Accelerate Skills Development through Short Videos and Lessons

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Coursera (NYSE: COUR) has announced the launch of Clips, featuring over 10,000 bite-sized videos aimed at enhancing employee skill development from top companies and universities. By the end of the year, the offering will expand to over 200,000 videos. With Clips, employees can learn valuable skills in under 10 minutes, addressing the challenge of limited time for training. This initiative is designed to improve employee retention and support organizational transformation, with features that allow just-in-time learning within broader courses.

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• Launch of Clips with over 10,000 learning videos, expected to grow to 200,000 by year's end.
• Addresses employee training needs by allowing quick access to skill development content.
• Enhances employee retention and supports organizational transformation efforts.

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5-10 min videos help employees learn in-demand skills from top companies and universities

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Coursera, Inc. (NYSE: COUR) is introducing Clips, which currently offer over 10,000 bite-sized videos and lessons from the world's leading companies and universities, and will scale to more than 200,000 videos by the end of the year. With Clips, companies can make the most valuable, in-demand skill development content more accessible to their employees, allowing them to begin learning new skills in under 10 minutes.

Learning leaders are increasing their emphasis on providing skills training to help drive employee retention and accelerate their company’s transformation efforts. Delivering effective training is a constant challenge, as many employees have a limited amount of time they can devote to learning. Approximately 60 percent of employees spend less than 1 hour on learning per sitting¹ as they work to keep pace with the demands of their role.

“Business needs are constantly evolving in today’s workforce and employees are expected to acquire new skills at an increasingly rapid pace to perform in their roles,” said Leah Belsky, Chief Enterprise Officer at Coursera. “By delivering easy access to shorter, actionable content on job-relevant topics, we are enabling employees to quickly develop the role-based skills and human skills needed to do their job successfully.”

Clips on Coursera enable organizations to drive engaged and continuous learning through 5-10 minute videos and short lessons. With Clips, employees will have direct access to videos that address their in-the-moment learning needs, without having to sign up for any courses. Videos and lessons are surfaced within the context of longer courses. This feature provides employees with a clear path to deeper skills development when they are ready to enroll.

The new Clips offering features short content across business, tech, data, leadership, and human skills, including:

• Non-Technical Explanation of Deep Learning, by DeepLearning.ai [7 min]
• What Machine Learning Can and Cannot do, by DeepLearning.ai [7 min]
• The Challenge of Everyday Leadership, by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [4 min]
• Excel: How to do SUM and AUTOSUM, by Macquarie University [4 min]
• The Basic Formula for Successful Presentations, by University of Colorado Boulder [5 min]

Coursera for Business now provides over 3,400 companies across the globe with job-based skills development featuring world-class content, hands-on learning, and the ability to track, measure, and benchmark skills through a single, unified platform. Recent platform innovations including LevelSets are helping employees to quickly determine their proficiency in key skills and identify areas to focus on moving forward. In addition, SkillSets allow organizations to deliver skill-first learning for over 50 unique roles. In SkillSets, job-based content recommendations are powered by data from millions of learners around the world, and provide the underlying basis for Coursera’s portfolio of Academies. These Academies offer a packaged learning experience based on the depth of skill needed for specific roles across an organization.

Clips will be available to Coursera for Business customers starting in June. To learn more, contact Coursera here.

About Coursera

Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 100 million registered learners as of April 2022. Coursera partners with over 250 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, Guided Projects, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a B Corp in February 2021.

¹Coursera Enterprise Learner Survey, November 2021

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Coursera Media Contact:

Brandon Brunson

press@coursera.org

Source: Coursera

FAQ

What is the new offering from Coursera called?

The new offering from Coursera is called Clips, featuring bite-sized videos for skill development.

How many videos will Coursera Clips offer?

Coursera Clips currently offers over 10,000 videos and will scale to more than 200,000 by the end of the year.

When will Clips be available to Coursera for Business customers?

Clips will be available to Coursera for Business customers starting in June.

What is the primary benefit of Coursera Clips for employees?

Coursera Clips allows employees to learn in-demand skills in under 10 minutes, improving accessibility to skill development.

What are the main topics covered by Coursera Clips?

Coursera Clips covers skills across business, tech, data, leadership, and human skills.