IIMK thinks beyond massive open online courses; launches new certificate programmes with Coursera

Debashis Chatterjee, Director, IIMK

Final week, the Indian Institute of Administration Kozhikode (IIMK), in collaboration with Coursera, launched 4 certificates programmes within the fields of enterprise, technique, advertising and product administration. Every programme is designed as a 6-8 months lengthy graduate-level providing comprising of interactive studying, together with synchronous and asynchronous periods with IIMK college and superior studying instruments backed by know-how and programme help from Coursera.

“Coursera, with its sturdy platform, AI-driven instruments and world attain, will probably be an ideal foil to IIMK’s dedication to the three Ds (digitisation, diversification and disruption),” stated Debashis Chatterjee, director, IIMK.

Speaking to FE, he added that these programmes are very totally different from huge open on-line programs (MOOCs). “Internationally, MOOCs on platforms like Coursera are typically designed to assist members shortly acquire new information, and are normally short-duration programs to be accomplished over 2-4 weeks, or possibly as much as 3 months,” Prof Chatterjee stated. “Ours are certificates programmes that may run over 6-8 months. These are in-demand, career-oriented and industry-relevant programmes aimed to offer a deep-dive studying expertise for serving to professionals advance of their chosen careers.”

He added that not like MOOCs, that are sometimes asynchronous programmes, these certificates programmes could be blended, i.e. a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous content material.

Whereas IIMK didn’t elaborate if and when it can launch extra such programmes, Prof Chatterjee stated Coursera is a crucial accomplice. “We count on this partnership to flourish to mutual benefit, and add worth to our audiences and stakeholders.”

These programmes embrace enterprise administration (to arrange future executives, leaders and entrepreneurs), strategic administration (to rework working professionals into results-driven leaders), advertising technique (designed for entrepreneurs trying to advance to management positions), and product administration (teaches exhausting and gentle expertise wanted to excel as a product supervisor).

“IIMK is broadly recognised for its distinguished college, gender range efforts, and early adoption of on-line studying,” added Betty Vandenbosch, chief content material officer at Coursera. “We’re proud to accomplice with IIMK to broaden entry to high-quality schooling in India and allow anybody to be taught the crucial enterprise and management expertise from considered one of India’s top-ranked establishments.”