Thursday, August 30, 2012

EDUCATION SPECIAL…FREE ON-LINE COURSES FROM REPUTED US UNVERSITIES..and



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
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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