[Challenge] Day #18 -- Review Coursera

Did you like to learn? Did you want to learn any subject with free?
Have you ever hear MOOC? Or website like Coursera, Udacity, or EdX?

If you ever heard that website, I can tell that you know what are those website.

Those website are Learning Website with MOOC method. What is it MOOC?
MOOC or Massive Open Online Course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In this course, all of the materials such as filmed lectures, readings, quiz, and exercises was provided by interactive forums to support community interaction between students, teachers, and teaching assistants (TAs).

Coursera is one of the MOOC that massively used by every people in the world. Coursera becomes one of the biggest MOOC that dominate an online course. Coursera has the largest catalogs of courses from many subjects and well known university. It gives students so many choices to choose a subjects and have an experience to learn that subjects from the best universities in the world.

I already become the student for almost 2 years and I can tell that I get a new knowledge and also an experience from this type of learning.

Good Side:

• It is easiest to login and become a new member
• We can choose what we want to learn from any category (art, technology, social, etc)
• It is good place to meet another friend (academia) from around the world
• The site has a good organization to make the students learn the material effectively.
• Overall, all of the subjects have
• Syllabus and introduction to guide a new student and give information about a basic outline of materials.
• A set of lectures (in form of video lectures). It will give students a 3-9 videos each week that include a concepts, basic problems, and examples about the topic for that week. Students are encouraged to discuss difficulties in the Forum.
• A problem set/assignment/quiz that required to submit to give a grade for a following topic. Student can discuss the assignment with professor or teaching assistant and also a fellow student.
• The assignment will be given for the following week after a new set of lectures are released. The same process is repeated for a 6-10 weeks.
• At the end of the course, there will be a Final Exam as a final result from all of the topics that learned from entire weeks.

Need Improvement:

• Too structured for some learners. You have to go at the pace of professor releases the video and assignment. It is difficult for a learner who didn't have time and want a flexibility to learn. Because, one you pass the assignment time, you can't get a certificate.
• Need more variability in quality.
• Must wait a while until the course you want is active.

But, for overall, I think this site is good for whoever want to learn a subjects (a basic subject) from well known university that best for the subjects.

If you love to learn, you can choose this site and try this type of learning. It is free and also you can meet a new friend from another country.

It is never late to learn. 

You only stop learning when you are dying.

DAY 18 -- Even if I didn't write for five days, I still try to finish this writing challenge