Every job across every industry is being reshaped by AI, but many professionals struggle to identify the right AI skills they need and where to start. Today, we’re introducing AI Series on Coursera, 12 expert-curated learning plans that help professionals build and apply AI skills in their fields.
From business, leadership, and finance to software development and engineering, each AI series brings together world-class courses, Specializations, and hands-on projects from leading universities, companies, and subject-matter experts. These curated plans are guided by custom skills maps that use industry research, professional standards, and labor-market data to identify the capabilities professionals need. For example, both engineering series are built on the AI Engineering Skills Map, created by one of the world’s foremost AI experts, Andrew Ng, and informed by more than 10,000 job postings and interviews with practitioners.
“AI capabilities are changing what we can build; AI coding agents are further changing how we build. As a result, the world needs more people skilled in AI engineering; but the nature of development work is changing. A skills map gives learners a systematic way to identify and focus on what are the most valuable skills even as the tasks in our jobs are being transformed by AI,” said Andrew Ng, one of the world’s foremost AI experts and creator of the course AI for Everyone.
“Imagine handing someone a book and saying, ‘Here—figure out how to read and write.’ We’d never do that. We teach people the patterns of language: how words fit together, how sentences carry meaning, and how to organize ideas clearly. Yet with AI, we often hand people the technology and say, ‘Go figure it out.’ AI has patterns to learn, too: writing effective prompts, decomposing problems, sequencing prompts, and building agents and tools. Just as people need expert instruction to become effective readers and writers, professionals need structured, expert-led learning to master the patterns of solving problems with AI,” said Dr. Jules White, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor on Generative AI, Vanderbilt University. Creator of the course Chat with Your Data: Generative AI Powered SQL Data Analysis
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