Coursera (2012) Coursera hits 1 million students across 196 countries Coursera Blog, August 9

As of August 9th, 2012:

  • 16 participating universities (Stanford,Washington, UC San Francisco, CalTech, Michigan, Illinois, Toronto, Duke, Rice, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Pennsylvania, John Hopkins, Princeton, Edinburgh, and Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne
  • 116 courses, all online
  • 1,000 plus videos
  • 1 million sign-ons
    • 38% (380,000) in USA
    • 6% (60,000) Brazil
    • 5% (50,000) India
    • 4% (40,000 each) China, Canada, Great Britain
  • cost: free
  • completion rates (successful award of certificate): not published and too early to calculate for most courses but:
    •  less than 10% on pilot courses,
    • possibly as many as 100,000 certificates will be awarded within six months.
  • quality assurance: none to date other than prestige of institution/instructors

I hope Coursera will publish similar updates at regular intervals and at the latest by August, 2013.

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