As Coursera Partner with 12 Major Universities to Offer Free Online Courses, it just got easier to get free quality education

Coursera offers the world’s best courses Online for free

We are THRILLED to announce that 12 universities — including three international institutions — will be joining Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania in offering classes on Coursera.

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Coursera, a startup launched by two Stanford professors last year 2011, is partnering with 12 major research universities to offer more than 100 free online courses in a variety of topics. Millions of people around the world are expected to enroll for the free online courses.

The courses are not just videotaped lectures. They’re streamed in real-time, and they’re increasingly interactive, giving the professor the option to pause and instantly poll the students to see if they understand what s\he’s just said. They include regular assignments and multiple-choice tests, and Coursera is rolling out a program for humanities classes that would have students grade one another’s essays.

On Coursera, you will now be able to access world-class courses from:

• California Institute of Technology
• Duke University
• Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Johns Hopkins University
• Princeton University
• Rice University
• Stanford University
• University of California, San Francisco
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Michigan
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Toronto
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington

You’ll be able to choose from more than 100 new courses. To date, 700,000 students from 190 countries have participated in classes on Coursera, with more than 1.6 million course enrollments total!

About Coursera

Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. The online company envisions a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Coursera technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.

Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in..

Coursera offer courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you’re looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting.

Website: https://www.coursera.org/courses