Coursera is phasing out free certificates
Honestly, if someone's resume tells me they took (say) the Coursera Natural Language Processing course, never in a million years would it occur to me to ask to see the certificate, any more than I'd ask to see their transcript to verify that they took specific classes in college.<p>And vice versa, I have lots of Coursera courses on my resume, no one has ever asked to see my certificates either.