I have discovered by accident Coursera on Kurzwei blog, and I was intrigued by the concept and the content that could be provided. But what is 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. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in."How good is the content provided? Well, I cannot speak for the 117 courses provided, so far I am on my 1st course about Quantum Physics and so far the experience has been positive. The course is general enough to be accessible to a large majority and complex enough to activate your grey matter. Professor Vazirami is very captivating in its presentation and provides online quiz challenging enough to keep you interested. The course is very progressive and builds on itself. However, by moment you can feel that there are big gaps in the explanations, just because the mathematical concepts get very very abstract. The big discovery from the course so far has been about symmetry and law of conservation (Nother's Theorem). By the way, Who is Emmy Noether?
The learning platform is user friendly and I may think about extending the experience on Coursera while keeping an eye on EdX.
