Coursera Learning Analysis

Key insights 📌

💡There were 75 million learners on the Coursera platform. 👫

💡 Ghana 🇬🇭 placed 73rd in terms of overall ranking, 6th out of 11 among the sub-Sahara African countries, 26th in business, 95th in data science and 76th in the overall technological ranking

💡Sub-Saharan Africa recorded the least female learners 🧍🏾‍♀️as compared to other regions. (35%). 🤔Are the females in sub-Saharan Africa not interested in online learning?

💡 Top trending skills in sub-Saharan Africa are programming , machine learning and management . 🧑🏾‍💻👩🏾‍💻 👏👨🏽‍💼This development complements the vice president's vision to digitalize the Ghanaian economy

💡 Sub-Saharan Africans mostly learn with their mobile phones. (66%).🤳 🤔 Does that mean they do not have access to personal computers?

💡Business is the most trending category among all regions. 👏 According to the Annual MasterCard index of women entrepreneurs (MIWE), Ghanaian women continue to flourish in women advancement outcomes including women business leadership (37.2%) surpassing their male counterparts 👩🏾‍💼

💡Sub-Saharan Africa spends approximately 5% of GDP on education

I would like to use this opportunity to commend the Ghana Library Authority in partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning for securing scholarship slots for 1000 Ghanaians to pursue online courses on the Coursera platform