Coursera is an education technology company founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller of Stanford University. Coursera believes in connecting people across the boundaries so that anyone can get education around the world. Their aim is to provide diverse and global education to the diverse people to improve their lives, the lives of their families and the communities they live in.

Online education has immense power to bring schools, professors and students together and make a link worldwide. This will also help investors to generate new revenue, increase brand recognition and make online education more effective and efficient. If the students want to develop new skills for working or want to simply learn, they will have great opportunities as more and more universities are offering online free courses. Now boundaries cannot limit the education. Students get the opportuniny to have quality education from their home only which was unapproachable to most of them previously. Coursera excitedly welcomes all universities and believes in ‘More great universities, more amazing courses’.

Coursera offers more than 400 online courses from 85 Universities that are open to worldwide students. 4 million students have already been registered from all around the world to Coursera. There are leading Universities in United States and abroad which foster free online courses via the Coursera platform of online education. Announcement made by the company is for the rapid growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) which aims in constructively modifying the higher education scenario.

Coursera offers a platform in diversified areas like engineering, humanities, medicine, biology, social Sciences, mathematics, business, computer science and other areas. Its courses are designed to give deep and clear understanding to its students. Homework and assignments help students in their self assessment and also help them in mastering their learning.

For getting registered for any course of Coursera candidate must Sign Up for a personal account on the Coursera Site for a user access. During registering for the User Account, candidates must be asked to enter additional information, including but not limited to their name and location. All the information provided by the candidate should be true, accurate, current and complete.

Class format is different according to the courses; a typical class will consist of short video lectures varying in length duration from 5 and 15 minutes and contain integrated quiz questions. There will also be separate homework that may be quizzes, assignments or short essays that are not part of video lectures. At the end of the class, there could also be one or more exams based on the exam results there will be certificates (Statement of Accomplishment) also, which will be signed by the faculty of the course. The Statement of Accomplishment would be from Coursera or from the instructors of the courses.

École Centrale Paris, Rice University of US, University of Geneva, Columbia University, The Chinese University of Hongkong, Yale University, The World Bank, IE Business School and many other prominent universities and organizations offer their well designed courses via Coursera.

In today’s techno-advanced era many products and services along with education are just a click away. Coursera has made education more convenient and more effective as face-to-face learning. It removes the boundations of boundaries now a student from any part of the world can study the course of any International university and take lessons from the best college professors. Courses by Courses are available in many languages like English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, German and Italian.

Just enrich your academic career and be a Coursera’s student.

Ghosia Tabassum