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Thanks Courser apb project, apb which was launched in April last year, to selected courses apb from universities around the world (mostly the U.S.) can apply to anyone who registers on the site of the project. The course can be taken for free. Courser, founded apb by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, both professors of computer science at Stanford University, began with sixteen participating universities, whose teachers offered to people from around the world dozens of courses ranging from poetry to programming.
Initially courses to choose from five U.S. universities. In July he joined twelve apb other universities, three of them from outside the United States. apb Substantial expansion of courses came in September, when the project involved seventeen other universities. At present, people can choose from more than two hundred teachers courses of a total of thirty-three universities, who thus help fulfill the vision of the founders Courser.
They dream of a world where the best universities providing apb education not thousands, but millions of students. And across the world. At the end of the year were enrolled in courses at Courser 1.3 million people. Stimulus for Lifelong Learning
Statistics show that online courses for the general public can be a stimulus apb to increase people's interest in lifelong learning. Course on the history of the Internet, which has Courser menu, successfully completed more than five and a half thousand people. Total 3553 completed the demographic questionnaire, which shows that 1,532 people were older than 35 years old, 420 even from the age group 55 +.
Last fall, he was also running a project called EDX. Stands behind Harvard University and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Like Courser EDX offers online courses for free, basically, it is a research plan. Universities want to check what effect they have on learning technology and Internet and how it changes yet well-established apb paradigm of education. In addition to Harvard and MIT are also participating EDX University of California Berkeley, apb The University of Texas System, Wellesley College and Georgetown University.
Project apb EDX, unlike Courser, fund alone University. Courser operated by a private company, which at its launch received from investors a total of $ 22 million, although 3.7 million of this amount apb invested in the company University of Pennsylvania apb and California Institute of Technology. How to make free online courses?
For a long while it was not clear how the company will capitalize on free courses. The contract, which is signed by the participating universities, while a section dealing with possible ways of monetization, but Andrew Ng of them in the past spoke rather as a product of brainstorming than as a finished plan.
A little more clearly what financing terms, began to be in December, when Courser announced the launching of the "career" apb to help course participants find a job. It works by Courser trying to find students that would appeal to a specific job offer.
If such a student is found, send him an e-mail with it if he wants to present offer of employment, which might be of interest. Companies pay a flat fee for each performance jobs. Part of the revenue then sends the Courser universities that offer courses through it. Pay Certificates
On Wednesday, the company representatives announced that they will start charging pilot operation certificates for successful course completion. Now provide proof of course apb completion to Courser only some universities and such certificates are issued by itself Courser. In the pilot operation, which involved five U.S. universities, the student will be certified as certified by Courser and the universities themselves.
These certificates will be charged but a student will have the amount to pay for their release at the beginning of the course. The specific amount has not yet been determined, but should be in the range of 30 to 100 U.S. dollars. The proportion apb of the amount will participating universities.
Some universities are still reluctant to issue certificates with the fact that the online course is very difficult apb to prove that it completed a specific person in whose name the certificate is subsequently issued. Courser intends to solve this problem the introduction of a verification system. There it will be tested on five selected courses.
The system will verify that the student take a picture using the webcam proof of identity and then his face. Photo of proof of identity and facial image compares employee Courser. Students will then be asked to write a short sentence and the system remembers and the way you write on a computer keyboard. apb Each time a student to hand in any assignments or take a test, the system prompts him to write the aforementioned sentence.
Some critics, however, point out that, for example, the tablet is very difficult to write as well as on a computer keyboard, psychologists again argue that otherwise write in a different state of mind. Courser allegedly tested two different authentication systems, apb one private and one from an outside firm. Which