1415T1g1 Silicon Vallley/Participant Information/Teams/Team8
If you have any "lobang" or information that would help us in contacting and negotiating with the companies, please contact us:
| Name | Mobile | |
|---|---|---|
| Benedict | 96246956 | benedict.ho.2012@sis.smu.edu.sg |
| Jiadong | Mobile Number | Email Address |
Coursera is an education information technology company founded by two Stanford University Professors; Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera is started to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
Coursera provides many online courses and it has a very user-friendly web application for user to find and learn the courses online. With their easy-to-use application, user can simply click on the 'learn now!' button, and began their journey of enrichment. These courses can be learn on their own pace, and learning can take place any time and day. Comfort is priority to learning!
In addition to just simply displaying range of courses available to the public, Coursera specially provides a specialization path for those keen enthusiastic learner. It is a guided path that is supervised by the university and it will lead the user with the different stages for the course. But of course! It comes with a price.
- An introduction/syllabus and a basic outline of materials the course will discuss.
- A set of lectures, ranging anywhere from 3-6 videos, that are each 20-30 minutes each which introduce concepts and basic problems. Students are encouraged to discuss difficulties in the Forum.
- A problem set/assignment/quiz that you are required to submit that reinforces the material introduced in the videos.
- Your assignment grade will be given to you the following week, and a new set of lectures are released.
- At the end of the course (usually 8-10 weeks), a Final exam is given. These exams are flexible (you can take the exam in a certain range of days), and count towards the final grade alongside quizzes, tests, and problem sets.
In January 2013, Coursera announced that the American Council on Education had approved five courses for college credit.
- Computer Science 101 (Stanford University)
- Machine Learning (Stanford University)
- An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Rice University)
- Cryptography I (Stanford University)
- Model Thinking (University of Michigan)
- Gamification (University of Pennsylvania)
- Startup Engineering (Stanford University)
- A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior (Duke University)
- Functional Programming Principles in Scala (École Polytechnique de Lausanne)
- Statistics One (Princeton University)
So the answer is that right now, employers are utterly confused and unclear about the value of a Coursera Certificate. That will likely change within 3-5 years, or even sooner if Coursera has a really good PR team. At the moment though, don’t expect your Coursera Certificate to get you an interview at Google! https://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/students/images/HowToImages/verified_cert.png
How did we contact the company We had the privilege of Prof Benjamin Gan to help us with the liaison with Coursera's member called Jun Jie. Jun Jie is a very friendly and welcoming staff stationed at Coursera, he is very hospitable in his mails and provided us with comprehensive details for our visit to Coursera
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 26th August 2014 | Some action. |
