Over the past 10 years, Coursera has flourished due to the eagerness and dedication of our companions and clients. We honor all of our companions and clients, who encourage us each day with their dedication to our shared imaginative and prescient of a world the place anybody, anyplace, can rework their life by way of studying.
We’re delighted to current Coursera’s 2022 Excellent Achievement Awards at our tenth annual Coursera Convention on Could fifth. This yr’s awards rejoice the distinctive companions, course groups, and clients that make highly effective studying experiences a actuality.
With out additional ado, listed below are our 2022 award winners — leaders in the way forward for work and studying:
Profession Transformation Award
This award is given to the trainer, course staff, or accomplice whose career-focused learners are experiencing the very best charges of success for attaining their targets.
This yr the award goes to the UX Design Skilled Certificates by Google.
This certificates takes learners with no background within the area by way of all the basic expertise they should turn into a UX designer. Impressively, greater than 2,000 learners have reported getting a brand new job as an final result of finishing this Certificates. The staff at Google built-in profession recommendation and suggestions immediately into the course content material, making the fabric not solely relevant to a brand new profession but additionally enabling learners to achieve the brand new UX Design function they desired.
Congratulations to everybody at Google who labored on this UX Design Certificates program!
Learner’s First Award
The Learners First Award goes to the course that maintains the very best learner score on the platform launched within the final calendar yr.
This yr’s winner is A Bridge to the World: Korean Language for Novices, a course provided by Sungkyunkwan College.
This course grew immensely in recognition and attracted a lot of learners from India, Vietnam, the USA, the Philippines, Thailand, Mexico, and Egypt. Greater than 20,000 learners flocked to this course in 2021 alone, bolstering their already sturdy course score to 4.84 out of 5.
Congratulations to the staff at Sungkyunkwan College!
Innovation Award
The Innovation Award is given to the accomplice and course that has efficiently piloted new options, launched a chunk of cutting-edge content material on the platform, and combines business and college experience.
The winner of this award is The Information Buildings and Algorithms Specialization by the College of Colorado Boulder.
This course offers a pathway into CU Boulder’s revolutionary diploma program. Instructors used nicely-scaffolded Jupyter Notebooks to check learners’ understanding regularly, implementing Coursera’s new nbgrader performance for quicker customized grading and extra sturdy suggestions offered to learners. With out having to attend for the subsequent cohort, learners can dive proper into this degree-level content material with hands-on coding tasks. With greater than 10,000 people enrolled and a mean score of 4.7, this CU Boulder Specialization erases conventional utility processes to a Grasp’s diploma and leads with the training as an alternative.
Congratulations to the CU Boulder staff that made these programs a actuality!
Expertise Transformation Award
This award acknowledges the enterprise that has helped its workers obtain extraordinary success and profession progress by way of the ability of on-line studying.
This yr the Expertise Transformation Award goes to Capgemini.
Capgemini is among the world’s leaders in consulting, digital transformation, and engineering providers, and in 2020 they partnered with Coursera to launch an in-house studying group referred to as Capgemini College. Greater than 216,000 Capgemini learners have joined this system globally and are demonstrating important expertise throughout quite a few areas together with skilled providers, know-how consulting, cloud adoption and Information and AI.
Capgemini’s passionate and devoted Studying and Improvement staff units the gold normal for company studying technique, with their dedication to progress forging improvements and pushing Coursera to turn into higher, as properly.
Congratulations to the training and growth staff at Capgemini!
Campus Transformation Award
This award is given to the highest establishment that has contributed considerably to the expansion, adoption, and scale of studying to profit growing economies, areas, or communities by bettering entry to pupil training at scale.
The award this yr goes to Gandhi Institute of Know-how and Administration (GITAM).
GITAM’s mission is to pursue training as a way to social and financial development. That is why partnering with Coursera was an ideal match for them. The blended studying strategy and built-in programs empowered over 20,000 college students throughout three campuses and 9 departments throughout the top of COVID-19 pandemic. In complete, GITAM achieved practically 400,000 enrollments, 700,000 studying hours, and 250,000 course completions. College students proceed to expertise profession affect after completion, and over 80 p.c of pupil learners say they might suggest Coursera to their juniors.
Congratulations, Gandhi Institute of Know-how and Administration!
Authorities Innovation Award
This award acknowledges a public sector program – in partnership with Coursera – that’s delivering substantial worth to an area financial system, its employers and their residents by bettering the employability and prosperity of their workforce.
This yr the Authorities Innovation Award goes to the New York State Division Labor.
In 2020, the New York State Division of Labor approached Coursera with an pressing mission to serve ‘unemployed residents’ impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. New York’s management wanted to quickly deploy an accessible coaching answer to serve these communities hardest hit by the shutdown, with a purpose of offering entry to well being and wellness coaching, foundational expertise, technical certifications and job readiness coaching. Collectively, New York and Coursera have served over 120,000 residents, who’ve invested roughly 1-million hours, and accomplished over 1-million ability assessments, of their pursuit of a extra sustainable dwelling wage.
In 2022, this system was expanded to additionally fund the upskilling and reskilling efforts of ‘half time’ residents in search of a full time place, or salaried profession.
Congratulations New York, for this revolutionary strategy to your workforce growth!
Thanks to the entire companions and clients who proceed to serve the world by way of studying – and a particular congratulations to our award winners. Our 100 million learners and all of us at Coursera are honored to work with you!
Watch the on-demand ceremony of Coursera’s 2022 Excellent Achievement Awards.