Coursera provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online.Coursera.org is one of the many sites that provides free courses to the people who are in absolute need of it. The courses range from various disciplines from Literature, art to many of those engineering ones an undergrad or even a post-grad, for that matter would look in for.
The design of the website is pretty delightful and imposes a sense of goodwill and harmony to get to start any new course. The course work is duly syllabic and is organised well to fit in as per an individual’s requirements. To get started with you need to create your own account on the website. Account creating is pretty easy. Just the thing is that you need to provide a certain ID proof and submit your photo on live feed for the account confirmation. This doesn’t take much of a time. Once done you are ready to go
There are video tutorials that one has to undertake and there are no fixed classes. Yes that means you can easily log in to your account and complete your course as an when is suitable to you. Now they are quite particular about the user accounts since Coursera.org offers various courses that are from well known universities from around the globe.This means that at the end of the course you are bound to get a certificate for your course work. Well that of course means that you have to do the assignments and answer the weekly tests given by them. After completing a certain number of assignments and term work the course concludes with the Varsity certificate(University that offers the course) .Not all courses can get you a certificate. But then you skills are a notch high once you take one of these classes and are able to complete them.
The duration of a course can last for over 2 months or 2 weeks depending on the course requirement and the amount of time one is comfortable to spend on completing it.Some of the courses offered for engineering students are basic C and C+ and they can go on to something as interesting as music signal processing using Digital Signal Processing and System and Signals techniques.
All and all coursera.org is really good in harnessing one’s skills and adding that little required waitage to your resume.