Course(s) Offered: Several
Course Level: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Provider: Coursera
Courses can be taken at: Online (any country)
Course Description
Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
The online company envisions a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Coursera technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students anywhere worldwide.
Coursera, a startup launched by two Stanford professors in 2011, initially partnered with 12 major research universities to offer more than 100 free online courses in a variety of topics. Currently, it has hundreds of university partners. Millions of people from around the world have so far enrolled for the free online courses.
Eligibility
Online access (a computer plus an internet connection) from any part of the world
Eligible groups
Citizens of ANY nationality
Participating Institutions
Currently 23 US institutions — including more than 700 international institutions — have joined Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania in offering classes on Coursera.
On Coursera, you will now be able to access world-class courses from:
- California Institute of Technology
- Duke University
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Johns Hopkins University
- Princeton University
- Rice University
- Stanford University
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Toronto
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
Fields of study
Coursera offers courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you’re looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting.
Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of our classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of our classes, you'll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you.
The courses are not just videotaped lectures. They’re streamed in real-time, and they’re increasingly interactive, giving the professor the option to pause and instantly poll the students to see if they understand what s\he’s just said. They include regular assignments and multiple-choice tests, and Coursera is rolling out a program for humanities classes that would have students grade one another’s essays.
Number of awards
As at ending of 2013, 700,000 students from 190 countries have participated in classes on Coursera, with more than 1.6 million course enrollments total! Currently, millions of students from across the world regularly access the site for courses.
Scholarship benefits
Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.
Method of Application
Sign up for the course program you are interested in from the official site (see link below)
DEADLINES:
There are no specific deadline dates. The many available FREE online courses have different dates for interested applicants to sign up. Visit the official website (link is below) to ascertain the dates for courses you are interested in.
Contact
We are always seeking feedback to improve our courses. If you are an enrolled student and have any questions, feedback, bug reports, suggestions, or any other issues specific to a particular class, please post on the discussion forums of that class.
This is the most effective way to get heard, as both the teaching staff and Coursera staff routinely check the discussion forums, and your fellow students will also be able to answer your questions and help you resolve technical issues.
Please visit our Contact Us page to learn about the different ways you can reach us..
Application Deadline: Rolling (depending on course)
Open to International students: Yes
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