I have no idea of where I should create a thread about this, ultimately decided for the Media forum but please move if necessary.
Well, what's Coursera?
We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
https://www.coursera.org/aboutThey are offering various courses on varied subjects in partnership with top universities. Some of them give certificates of completion that can even be used as university credits. I don't have much interest in the certificates but I love learning and couldn't resist such opportunity.
I'm currently doing two completely different courses. One of them is
Introduction to Finance, basically just out of curiosity to see how it's taught in the University of Michigan, but I'm already familiar with the subject since I'm graduated in Economics. It's good to remember some stuff too.
The other is called
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World (also by the University of Michigan), about fantasy and sci-fi literature. I'm loving it. It's difficult to read all the suggested material in time for the assignments but it's worth it. So far I've read classics such as Alice in Wonderland, Dracula, Frankenstein, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells etc, and there is more to come in the next few weeks. The certificate won't be worth much in my profession but it's the learning experience that I like. Call me nerd if you want.
I'm also just getting started in courses like
Model Thinking (University of Michigan),
Gamification (University of Pennsylvania) and
Statistics (Princeton University). Looking forward to others such as
A History of the World since 1300 (Princeton University),
Learn to Program: The Fundamentals (University of Toronto),
Introduction to Philosophy (University of Edinburgh) and others.
In all the courses, you can just read the material / view videos etc or you can be an active student, doing all the requested assignments, that are mandatory only if you intend to win a certificate.
Well... I thought I would share it, just in case anyone might also be interested.
https://www.coursera.org/