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Videos for the following free Harvard courses are made available by the Harvard Extension School’s Open Learning Initiative. Featuring Harvard faculty, the noncredit courses are open to the public. You do not need to register to view the lecture videos. China: Traditions and Transformations Peter K. Bol , PhD, Charles H.
Education startup Coursera partners with 12 new universities, raises $3.7M and hits 1.5M students
As we wrote back in April, there’s no doubt that the Internet is revolutionizing education , as more and more companies continue to emerge and alter the way we learn. We’ve kept a close eye on edX , Khan Academy , Academic Earth , P2PU , Skillshare and Codecademy , and rounding out that list is Coursera , one of the youngest of the bunch, which recently raised $16 million to launch with 37 undergraduate and graduate-level courses. Now, since starting off with the likes of Princeton and Stanford, Coursera is announcing 12 new university partnerships, $3.7M in equity investments from Caltech, Penn and existing investors, and a total of 1.5M student users from 190 different countries. Update : Coursea has clarified that 1.5M refers to the number of course enrollments, and that there are currently around 680,000 registered students.