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, ...

Imagine a world where college level courses, taught by leading professors at top-notch universities like Penn, are at the fingertips of any motivated citizen — for free. Log onto Coursera on a ...

Coursera announced today that it will give college students across the world free access to its entire catalogue of courses, certificates and guided projects. In its latest response to the coronavirus ...

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One of the biggest benefits of the Internet is the huge amount of information we all have available at our fingertips. Yet the biggest challenge for many of us is making sense of all that information.

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 ...