Coursera, the global leader in online education and learning, and Indian School of Business (ISB), a premier global B-school, announced the launch of two new specialisation programmes. They are ‘Business Technology Management (BTM)’ for professionals in IT functions and the IT industry, and ‘Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets (TSEM)’ for beginners in financial markets sector. These programmes are being offered by ISB on Coursera’s platform after the successful launch of ISB’s first coursera specialisation, ‘Financial Markets and Investment Strategy,’ in June this year.
The BTM specialisation is targeted at professionals in IT functions and the IT industry and is designed to empower individuals with the ability to examine technology through a business lens. Certified individuals will learn about IT-enabled competition and how they can leverage IT for efficiency, innovation and business transformation. In turn, they will be poised for technology consulting, IT programme and project management, IT leadership and client facing positions in IT functions and the IT industry.
Participants will acquire knowledge of the IT domain, management, leadership and team building skills, and functional and analysis skills.
The TSEM specialisation will equip individual investors and money managers with skills required to develop, measure and test their own or others’ trading strategies respectively. This course also provides the learners with several trading strategies which have proved highly successful in emerging markets in the past as per academic research.
In order to earn a specialisation certificate, learners are required to complete a final Capstone Project that involves developing new trading strategies, evaluating them using the tools learned in the course, integrating them with the existing portfolio and develop a plan to start a hedge fund. On an average, the Specialisations should take about six months to complete with an estimated workload being of three to four hours per week. The fees of both the specialisations are Rs17,735.