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Coursera

Contact Us

If you have any "lobang" or information that would help us in contacting and negotiating with the companies, please contact us:

Name	Mobile	Email
Benedict	96246956	benedict.ho.2012@sis.smu.edu.sg
Jiadong	Mobile Number	Email Address

How Coursera started

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)

About Coursera

A free online education platform for anyone andd everyone to take. It has wide range of partnerships with top universities (Including National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University) and organisation. Coursera believes in a future of accessible world-standard education to anyone. Their aim is to be a channel of provision of education to the community to improve their lives with the aid of better education, helping society as a whole

What Coursera offers?

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.

Our Approach

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

Progress Updates

Date	Action
26th August 2014	Some action.