What are American workers’ top skills in 2022?
Meanwhile, Idaho showed the highest levels of technology skills in the country, outpacing tech hubs like California and Massachusetts. Idaho learners also earned a perfect score in mobile development skills, reflecting a growing trend driven by the number of high-tech companies in the state increasing 61% in the last decade.
Overall, human skills like storytelling, resilience, project management, decision making, planning and experimentation were increasingly popular among U.S. learners.
“As multinational companies offshore technical skills like computer programming, learners in the U.S. should recognize that it may not be enough to simply have digital skills,” Belsky says. “No matter their jobs, workers across every level in all industries need human skills to thrive. Business leaders should prioritize training programs that develop these skills.”
Another key finding in the report is that women in the U.S. are enrolling in online courses at nearly the same rate as men, reaching its highest point (51%) in the last year, continuing a trend that started in 2020. Despite a rise in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) enrollments to 42%, women still lag behind the opposite sex.
“Women’s participation in online learning on Coursera, and in STEM in particular, has continued to rise globally,” Belsky says. “There are a variety of factors that can contribute to an increase in STEM enrollments from women on the Coursera platform. Representation of women instructors is among the most important. Our research finds that women registered learners are enrolling in more courses where at least one instructor is a woman – compared to men registered learners, whose enrollments favor courses taught by all men instructors.”