Can Coursera be trusted?

Coursera has a long-held reputation for keeping its users safe and their information private. It is a completely legitimate site and will not try to scam you . The partners of Coursera include: Yale, Stanford, Duke University, University of Michigan, Google, IBM and many more.

Coursera also announced deals with name-brand private universities, such as Brown, Columbia, Emory and Vanderbilt Universities; some major state institutions, such as the University of Maryland System, the Ohio State University and the Universities of Florida, and California at Irvine; and several international …

Coursera does not pay any money to the instructors or professors that teach its courses. Instead, revenue is shared with the institution (e.g. university) that hosts that course . Some universities have reportedly agreed to share a portion of the revenue they receive with their professors.

The platform Coursera is not accredited by CHEA or the Department of Education, but the majority of courses and learning programs that Coursera offers are. Its really important that before you decide on which type of Coursera course or learning program you want to take, you understand what each of them mean.