Coursera

Coursera is a U.S. company that specializes in the provision of online courses and lectures (Massive Open Online Courses ). The platform is working in several countries with universities, the teaching has been evaluated there as well above average.

History

Coursera was founded in April 2012 by the computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller of Stanford University. Coursera now has partner universities from around 19 countries, the majority of universities comes from the United States.

In December 2012, Coursera had over two million registered users.

Partner organizations

So far, a total of 62 universities provide courses on Coursera ready. First partner organizations were MIT and Stanford University. In the U.S. alone 41 well-known universities are now involved. From other countries take part in the average one to two universities on the model of Coursera, in Germany these are so far the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.

Business Model

Coursera created any courses, but works in cooperation with universities. All content is created by the partner universities. Coursera manages and streams this content. In each course, students can supplement the lectures solve various quiz and answer questions.

The participation in the courses is free of charge, but can be acquired through a charge between U.S. $ 50 and U.S. $ 90 a verified certificate of attendance of the course.

In December 2012, it was announced that companies can get against payment information on particularly well abschneidende graduates, provided they agree.