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We Need Learners Like You to Evaluate a New Per...
Jan 24, 2025

We Need Learners Like You to Evaluate a New Per...

Duke University is excited to announce a pilot program in Coursera focused on learning more about artificial intelligence in online education.

Explaining the Unexplainable: Duke’s New AI Course
Oct 17, 2024

Explaining the Unexplainable: Duke’s New AI Course

As AI has rapidly taken the world by storm, entering and transforming fields like health care and finance and shaping everyday lives through social media, developing AI systems that are accurate, transp...

New Course: Climate Science for Everyone
Aug 21, 2024

New Course: Climate Science for Everyone

Climate Science for Everyone will enable you to meaningfully engage with one of the defining challenges facing humanity today - no science background needed.

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10 for 10 Million: Duke’s Earliest Course...
Jul 24, 2023

10 for 10 Million: Duke’s Earliest Course...

Celebrating 10 million enrollments in our Coursera courses and specializations!

Enroll in the Python, Bash and SQL Essentials f...
Aug 02, 2022

Enroll in the Python, Bash and SQL Essentials f...

Enhance your scripting, programming, and other data engineering skills by completing the Python, Bash and SQL Essentials for Data Engineering Specialization!

5 Reasons You Should Earn the Blockchain Applic...
Jun 28, 2022

5 Reasons You Should Earn the Blockchain Applic...

Major businesses are expanding their online networks with the use of blockchain systems, and employers are seeking to hire people who have expertise in navigating blockchain applications.

Announcing Continued Expanded Access to 2,000+ ...
Mar 29, 2021

Announcing Continued Expanded Access to 2,000+ ...

Coursera has developed a new learning program that will continue to allow Duke students, faculty and staff access to thousands of high-quality courses from Duke and other institutions through the Course...

We Just Hit a Coursera Milestone
Aug 14, 2020

We Just Hit a Coursera Milestone

As of today, the members of our Coursera learning programs have collectively logged over 100,000 learning hours!

Expanding Coursera for Duke
Jul 09, 2020

Expanding Coursera for Duke

Announcing a pilot expansion of Coursera for Duke that will grant our community access not only to Duke-created courses, but to nearly the entire Coursera catalogue of 3,800 courses built by Coursera pa...

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Get to Know Chimpanzees, Our Closest Animal Rel...
Mar 08, 2019

Get to Know Chimpanzees, Our Closest Animal Rel...

They hang out with their families. Their kids like to play. They make their bed every night. They get into fights with their neighbors. Chimpanzees: they’re just like us.

3 Questions with Professor David Boyd on Runnin...
Mar 06, 2019

3 Questions with Professor David Boyd on Runnin...

New Online Course Explains Fintech Law and Poli...
Jun 21, 2018

New Online Course Explains Fintech Law and Poli...

Bitcoin, SoFi, Credit Karma, PayPal, and yes, Potcoin: these are some of the news-making names in the growing industry known as fintech. Fintech, short for “financial technology,” has upended the tradit...

Coursera for Duke Gives Campus Free Access to 4...
Dec 14, 2017

Coursera for Duke Gives Campus Free Access to 4...

Duke students, staff, and faculty can now take any of Duke’s online Coursera courses and earn a verified certificate for free.

Erika Weinthal Helps Develop New Online Course ...
Nov 09, 2017

Erika Weinthal Helps Develop New Online Course ...

Erika Weinthal, a professor at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has helped develop a free online course on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace for the United Nations Environ...

Start a Business, Fight Climate Change with a N...
Aug 01, 2017

Start a Business, Fight Climate Change with a N...

Want to do something about global climate change? Try starting a business.