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In this episode of the “New Skills Marketplace” podcast, Andy Smarick (AEI) and John Bailey (AEI) sit down with Leah Belsky from Coursera.
Leah first recounts the founding of Coursera, addresses common misconceptions about massive open online courses (MOOCs), and identifies the groups of people that Coursera serves [2:22]. She then describes the ways in which Coursera measures the quality of the courses on its platform [8:36]. Leah next talks about the flexibility of nontraditional providers like Coursera [15:16]. Finally, Leah gives her perspective on the skills gap issue, how Coursera may fit into the solution to the problem, and what policymakers should do to help [21:51]. Andy and John conclude with a reflection on their discussion with Leah.
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Published in: Education