June 12. (Portaltic/EP) –
The Global Skills Report 2024, published by the online learning platform Coursera, places Spain as the seventh country in the world with the most digital skills worldwide, registering the largest European increase in enrollments in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to face the current context of technological disruption.
Spanish students are demonstrating “a remarkable willingness to train in the skills required by generative AI, and to achieve the highest levels of competence in technology and data science,” as the report adds, based on data from more of 148 million students and 7,000 institutional partners of the platform worldwide.
This study gives Spain the seventh best overall score in Technology, with Bioinformatics, Programming Languages and Distributed Computing Architecture being the main technological skills acquired by Spanish students during the last year. “Compared to the existing forecast that only 64% of the Spanish population has basic digital skills in 2030, the country’s good results and the high number of registrations in GenAI suggest the ambition to exceed this projection,” the document adds.
Specifically, this Coursera ranking on digital skills is headed by Switzerland. Japan (2nd) is the only Asian country that surpasses Spain, which is ahead of Singapore (12th), Hong Kong (13th) and South Korea (16th). Spain has also surpassed European countries such as Austria (8th), Denmark (9th), Belgium (10th) and Italy (15th). In more specific categories, Spain receives the eighth best overall score in Data Science and is ranked twelfth in Business.
Spanish companies are also responding to this challenge and 85% of them already invest in the training of their employees to maximize the potential of technologies around AI. Likewise, Spain would be close to achieving gender parity in online learning, since 49% of Spanish students on the Coursera platform are women, a proportion higher than the world and European average (46%).
“The rise of generative AI underscores the pressing need to develop new and innovative strategies to build a competitive workforce, as two-thirds of jobs are exposed to some degree of automation,” said Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera. , who adds that this report aims to “offer practical information for Spanish companies, governments and academic institutions to be able to respond to an unprecedented disruption, and contribute to a future in which access to high-quality learning reaches all”.
WORLDWIDE ANALYSIS: EUROPE PRESENTS ITS CHEST
European students demonstrate a high mastery of skills in general, since 19 of the top 25 countries in the world come from the region, with Switzerland and Germany in first and third place in the ranking respectively. Despite a 4.56% year-on-year decline in cybersecurity enrollments, Europe saw a 775% increase in GenAI course enrollments, reflecting growing interest in emerging technologies.
Among the most popular Generative AI courses in the past year are Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT (Vanderbilt University), Generative AI with Large Language Models (Amazon Web Services and DeepLearning.AI), and Generative AI for Everyone (DeepLearning.AI). AI training emerges as a global imperative in the wake of ChatGPT. Enrollments in GenAI courses on Coursera increased by 1,060% worldwide over the past year.
The report also warns that the digital skills gap persists in a rapidly evolving labor market. Currently, 9 out of 10 jobs require at least some level of digital competence. Despite this need, there remains a large gap between employers’ expectations and employees’ competencies in this area. 70% of European companies consider the lack of digital skills to be a major obstacle to investment.
Given that 60% of workers will need to retrain professionally before 2027, “having accessible learning pathways is more pressing than ever,” adds the study, which highlights that 38% of European students learn through mobile phones, which “highlights the high demand for accessible and flexible learning solutions.”
Since October 2021, more than 2.3 million Spaniards have enrolled in one of the courses offered by Coursera, which has recently translated more than 4,700 courses into Spanish using Machine Learning technology to continue offering new skills to users of the platform. .
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