EDUCATION SPECIAL…FREE ON-LINE COURSES FROM REPUTED US
UNVERSITIES..and
My FB friend Vaishali Swaminathan had requested me to put up
information about on-line course on my blogsite as she claims many of my
student friends visit my blog site and is the best way to pass on valuable
information to many benefactors.
The information she has passed on is given in this blog.
The site she recommends is www.coursera.org
They provide free courses online. Several participating
univs. Some of the courses you get a completion certificate if you satisfy
their requirements which are decided by the course co-ordinator. It is very
well organised and right now the best range of courses are available from some
of the best universities in the world (16 universities e.g., Princeton, Caltech, Duke, University of Toronto,
University of Edinburgh)
The courses
are across 16 categories i.e
Biology
& Life Sciences, Computer Science:
Programming & Software Engineering, Economics & Finance,
Health and Society &
Medical Ethics, Mathematics,
Statistics, Data Analysis,
and Scientific Computing, Business & Management,
Computer Science:
Systems, Security, Networking, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences,
Medicine, Computer Science: Artificial
Intelligence, Robotics, Vision, Computer Science: Theory,
Electrical and Materials
Engineering , Information,
Technology, and Design, Physical
& Earth Sciences
120 courses are available
Vaishali’s
personal experience is given below:
“I completed the Affordable Care Act course. The course was
for 8 weeks.
I really enjoyed the
ACA course. the content was excellent. A great reading list and very good video
lectures to sort of paraphrase everything in the reading list. Every week you
had essay assignments and you got a grade based on peer evaluations. Assignments are very challenging
and the course requires at least 3-4 hours a week...
Currently working on the Introduction to Finance course,
which is for 10 weeks.The videos
in the finance course are sufficient. No extra reading.
But the course content requires you to put in considerable
time each week especially if you want a grade. But if you are willing to put in
the time you really learn a lot.
I am learning a lot from this and it would be great if you could share info about coursera so that other
also benefit from it”
MY PERSONAL BIG
THANKS TO VAISHALI FOR HER SUGGESTION
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