Career Academy from Coursera
South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University has partnered with Coursera to provide currently enrolled students, faculty and staff access to a robust catalog of non-credit courses and certificates at no cost.
Career Academy from Coursera offers learners these benefits:
- Flexibility – allows you to learn at your own pace, fitting education into your schedule. This is especially beneficial for those with busy lives or other commitments.
- Wide range of courses – you can find programs in various fields, from technology and business to arts and humanities
- Career advancement – offers professional certificates and specializations that can help you gain job-ready skills and advance your career.
- Global learning community – you can connect with learners from around the world, participate in discussions, and collaborate on projects, enriching your learning experience.
Career Academy offers a variety of microcredentials and professional certificates by commercial entities, professional bodies and private bodies:
- IBM Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Amazon Generative AI in Software Development
- Adobe Graphic Designer
- Meta Social Media Marketing
- Microsoft Public Relations and Communications Associate
- Microsoft Business Analyst
- IBM Program Manager
- IBM Data Management
- National Academy of Sports Medicine Personal Fitness Trainer
*If you have an existing Coursera account with your @sdstate.edu or @jacks.sdstate.edu, select "I'm an existing user" and login with your existing credentials and follow the prompts to manage your account.
Coursera catalog
Coursera has many content catalogs. Since Career Academy is a subset of Coursera's most highly sought after industry certificate tracks, this means that if you navigate to Coursera's main website, you will find content not included in Career Academy. It's important to join and search in the SDState Coursera instance to ensure the content you are interested in is available. If you are prompted to input payment details, you are in the wrong place!
Searching for courses
Career Academy is optimized to display content by domain, role, certificate track, and then courses. When you navigate to the search bar, you can immediately input a keyword, or simply click on the blue search icon to come to the set of granular search filters. Check out the filters as this is where many people head first to explore content.
