Why we love Scala at Coursera

Why Scala is Coursera’s primary serving language

By Brennan Saeta

Coursera is a rapidly evolving platform for education at scale. Our Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, enable millions of students to take quality academic…

Writing a Custom Control for iOS 8 using Swift and Auto Layout

By Brice Pollock

Here at Coursera, every new line of code we write for iOS is in Swift. As a result, I’ve written a few custom controls lately in Swift using Auto Layout and iOS 8’s new…

Bringing Data To Teaching

By Joshua Horowitz

When an instructor teaches a class on Coursera, they get to make a direct impact on hundreds of thousands of learners all around the world. This broad reach is a huge attraction for teachers. But we think the benefits of teaching a MOOC…

A/B Testing

Experimentation @ Internet Scale

Using and Contributing to Open Source at Coursera

By eleith

Coursera’s Adoption of Cassandra

By Daniel Chia

Like many startups, Coursera began its data storage journey with MySQL, a familiar and industry-proven database. As Coursera’s user base grew from several thousand to many millions, we found that MySQL provided limited availability…

What about the women?

“Education is one of the most important means of empowering women with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence…

My internship at Coursera

By Shadaj Laddad

Editor’s Note: Meet Shadaj Laddad, one of Coursera’s summer interns. In this expository blog post, Shadaj shares the day-to-day adventures of working at Coursera this summer. Thank you for all your hard work, Shadaj. We will miss you!!