The online provider is offering licenses to universities so they can access the company’s full course catalog.
Coursera, the former massive open online course provider, moved its business in a new direction Thursday by adding a subscription-based service for universities.
The company’s new program, called Coursera for Campus, grants subscribing colleges access to Coursera courses for their students and, potentially, faculty and staff members and alumni. The company currently offers over 3,700 courses that are developed by universities and companies such as Google.
“What Coursera for Campus represents is this elite group of companies and universities making everything they’ve built accessible to universities around the world,” said Leah Belsky, senior vice president of enterprise at the company.
Coursera says the new option will allow universities to offer courses for skills that are in high demand among employers, like computer science.
“There’s a major crisis facing the global higher education system today,” Belsky said. “Very few universities are enabled to teach the true skills of the future that companies need.”