The race to create a full-fledged digital campus -- with renowned professors teaching everything from astronomy to obesity economics online -- has a new front-runner. Coursera, a startup founded by ...
Engineering and computer science professor J. Alex Halderman teaches one of the largest lectures offered by the University of Michigan. There are well over 500 students enrolled, and they don't all ...
I did it! I made it all the way through a MOOC, submitting the final assignment in Coursera’s Computer Science 101 this afternoon. I seem to have a penchant for signing up and dropping out of these ...
Coursera will not replace the four year university any time soon. This is not some bold pronouncement on my part. Former Yale President and Coursera CEO Richard Levin has said so himself. However, ...
Coursera offers free interactive lectures supplemented by short quizzes, assignments and online forums. The company also announced Wednesday that it has formed partnerships with Stanford University, ...
So far, MOOCs are great for lectures with talking heads, whiteboards and PowerPoint slides. However, while lectures and auto feedback may be great for learning things like computer science, this ...