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Become a Project Instructor on Coursera
Joining Coursera as a Guided Projects Instructor is an opportunity to share expertise with millions of learners. As an instructor you will be provided the tools, resources, and tutorials needed to learn how to create high-quality Guided Projects.
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How-To-Videos
Coursera works with prestigious universities such as Yale, Michigan, Stanford, and including tech giants like Google, Facebook, Autodesk and IBM.Coursera courses provides the choice between free courses, paid courses, and complete degrees, which are available in a wide variety of languages, and accessible to learners worldwide.
Courses consist of pre-recorded video lectures that can be watched on a weekly schedule. Videos are used prominently for the lecture portion of courses. Sometimes the videos are only two or three minutes long. Other times, they could be 15 or 30 minutes.
Language support feature for the online video courses to learners, is the transcription that appears below the screen. This language feature offers closed captioning and subtitles to complete transcripts of all videos hosted on the platform. - Typically subtitles come with a few languages with closed captioning in native languages.
Course Libraries
Coursera covers a vast range of topics from academic studies in Arts and Humanities, History, Music & Art, Philosophy, Business, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Physical Science and Engineering, to Personal Development and upskilling qualifications. Coursera’s online courses usually involve the following types of learning options:
Upon enrolling onto a course, you are presented with a summary table of the most important information —This would in large include part of the course program, the estimated commitment time to complete the course, a clear layout of the course across all the weeks, supported languages, subtitles, guidance on passing the class, and an average user rating. Course previewing a syllabus before enrolling is also available.
Depending on the course, most syllabus courses contain video lectures, reading materials and/or quizzes to test student’s knowledge on different topics. Other courses provide learners with an online degree derived from accredited universities, which ensures the standard and quality of the education are maintained.
Guided Projects
Guided Projects, are practical knowledge based self-paced projects, where an instructor guides learners from start to finish using step-by-step process to learning. Most Guided Projects available on Coursera are taught by instructors in the Coursera Project Network.
A group of instructors who have demonstrated expertise in a tool or skill through industry experience or academic background in the topic of their project. After completing a project, users can take a quiz to check what they’ve learned from the Guided Project, and earn a shareable certificate that showcases what they’ve learned.
Coursera Certificates
Coursera’s marketplace offers 400 groups of courses which are modules and learning tracks known as Specializations, Professional Certificates and MasterTracks.
- Specializations – Are a series of online courses made of several micro-credential courses from 4 or 5 courses, to as much as 10, and can take up to 4-6 months to complete. Running on a subscription basis, students can earn a certificate which will need to be paid for all the courses to complete the modules within the provided segments. - The final course has a Capstone project which is assessed by student peers, and is only available after completing all the other courses in the specialization.
- Professional Certificate Programs - Over 100 Professional Certificate programs led by corporate partners are available with online training courses, and designed to get students professional-level credentials recognized by leading institutions and companies. These programs give students professional certification from the institution that created the course (eg: Google, Meta, Microsoft, Tableau, and AWS). Students can access career support services, course tutorial activities, earn career credentials and complete hands-on project.
- MasterTrack Certificates – Is another micro-credential program designed for students who seek to gain a knowledge of a Master level degree, which are university-backed single-semester online certificate programs, and can take up to 4 to 7 months to complete. MasterTrack certificates can be accredited towards your degree.
Goal-Ordinated learning Tracks
Here’s a breakdown of what they are and how they compare with Free vs Paid courses:
Some groups of courses can be used as credit towards degrees available through Coursera, but these are not free when used as university credit. Inclusive to courses are the inclusion of student discussion forums, homework/assignments and online quizzes or exams.
Coursera fosters a learning community through various features that encourage interaction and collaboration among learners. Each course and specialization on Coursera has its own dedicated discussion forum, where learners can ask questions, share insights, and engage in discussions related to the course content.
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The Coursera community is a place to connect, start conversations, ask questions, support each other and learn together.
Many courses on Coursera include peer-reviewed assignments, where learners submit their work and gain feedback and evaluations from their peers. This process encourages collaboration and the exchange of ideas among participants.
Collaborative Projects
Specialization courses often include collaborative projects or a Capstone Project where learners work together to apply the skills they've acquired throughout the course series. This collaborative aspect adds a practical, real-world dimension to the learning experience.
Students can experience through collaborative projects and short courses the ability to harness key skills in Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation.
Coursera’s learning community is built to support Learning groups, providing resources for learners to meet virtually or communicate through the platform, to discuss course materials and support each other in their learning journey.
Coursera Business for Teams
Coursera for Business is the option for teams which is aimed at a smaller workforce offering specializations, and professional certificates across various domains. These are structured learning programs are presented in the format of:
- 200,000 short videos
- 5,800+ courses
- 3,300+ Guided Projects
- 640+ Specializations
Courses and projects are designed to help businesses and teams upskilland reskill their teams with access to development programs that offer unlimited access.
Skill Development Dashboards
It also provides program resources for skill development in areas such as digital literacy, leadership, project management, technology, and industry-specific expertise.
Customized learning paths for teams can be created based on the specific skills and competencies development needs. This allows for a targeted and tailored approach to team training, where working on group projects, sharing insights, and participating in discussions, fosters a culture of continuous learning within an organization.
Setup, launch and access analytics & benchmarking tools to track and measure learning progress of teams, and assess individual team members to the overall impact of the learning program. - This data can also inform future learning initiatives.
Coursera Instructors, Teachers and Hosts
Experts in their respective fields, Instructors and Teachers on Coursera come from renowned institutions, universities and private companies. They share their knowledge, experience and expertise in their relative fields to teach courses on the platform in a variety of formats.
Coursera App
The Coursera app includes a download manager, which lets you organize all the content from the different classes you've enrolled in.
Find courses in more than 12 different languages, including Russian, Spanish, Italian, and German.
How To Become a Project Instructor on Coursera
Joining Coursera as a Guided Projects Instructor is an opportunity to share expertise with millions of learners. As an instructor you will be provided the tools, resources and tutorials needed to learn how to create high-quality Guided Projects.
Requirements to becoming a Coursera Guided Project Instructor
Coursera looks to build job-relevant, hands-on projects in diverse range of fields.
They encourage Instructors that are subject matter experts in their profession, that have developed their expertise and qualifications in a specific subject areas that aligns with Coursera's course offerings.
Here are some general steps and considerations before applying to be an instructor on Coursera:
Potential Monthly Earnings
Instructors are paid on a per-project basis, based on their experience, niche area of expertise, and expected volume of projects created.
Entry Requirements
Coursera Teaching Center
Understanding the core learning objectives using design pedagogy principles
The Teaching Center helps deliver online course content development best practices, and principles to develop teaching confidence as an instructor.
The Teaching & Learning foundational instructional design pedagogy supports a step-by-step guidance on how to develop effective and engaging online courses, and degree programs on the Coursera platform.
Discover how to create and scale a quality compelling online content with instructional design practices, from teaching and learning experts based on best practices informed by their own experiences.
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