Coursera Available for Free to 25,000 Colombians Through Government-Funded Scholarships
Summary
“It’s an honor to partner with ICETEX and MinTIC to invest in Colombia’s most vital resource: its people,” said Mario Chamorro, Head of Latin America, Enterprise at Coursera. For Juan Andrés Espinosa Torres, a learner from Colombia, acquiring R programming skills on Coursera helped him stand out as a job candidate. He says, “my knowledge of R, combined with the abilities I had at the time, were big determining factors in me getting the job from a group of almost 1,000 people.” To serve the growing number of Spanish-speaking learners, Coursera currently offers more than 400 courses in Spanish. Earlier this year, Coursera announced its first fully-Spanish degree in software engineering in partnership with top-ranked Colombian institution Universidad de los Andes. More than 200 of the world’s top universities and industry educators partner with Coursera to offer courses, Specializations, certificates, and degrees that empower over 45 million learners around the world to achieve their career goals.