Coursera.org

I love this website.

This website was a savior to my passion. I on recommendation of my father chose mechanical engineering as my career but I was more into web development and coding.

But because I chose mechanical engineering, all the doors to pursue my passion were shut.But coursera.org helped me getting back to web development and coding. And I Thank coursera for having such wonderfull courses available for free.

Its Amazing(Y)

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I was a really good student in my school, not that I am bragging or something but I have always had a genuine curiosity to learn.

So seeing my performance my highly expecting parents sent me to fiitjee(they had this so called -meri bacchhi iit jayegi vala sapna) .Fast forward 2 years, I screwed up, didn't get to iit or nit or any top engg. colleges.

But then the curious person was still inside on me-so that's when I found about coursera. And oh my god, I was min-blown.I mean wow, classes and professors from harward, mit were giving lessons there.

Right now as I write about coursera, my lecture is getting loaded

seriously best website ever.

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I did a few courses with coursera.org. The good thing about this website is it is free. It's good if you want to try out if you wish to further a serious education on the "real campus". However, some of the courses are not accredited and there are too many students enrolled in the each class (of course you have to pay if you want to be accredited). If you can't follow it, you can just withdraw the class.

Courses provided are predominantly in English. There are some courses in French and Spanish. I don't understand why students complain when there is no subtitles on the video. If the course is given in English, language ability should be pre-requisite requirement.

Even though it is an online course, you still need to devote 3-7 hours a week to follow the video and do some reading. Most of courses are in introductory level so it is not difficult to follow. Its assessment is a combination of weekly quiz format and sometimes final essay. They usually have small quiz during the interval of the video. Those who failed to download video, they also provide study's script.

The discussing board is available. However, due to a large number of students, you will see a lot of weird comments from some students.

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