Want to learn from the best lectures in the world? Then you should start using online courses.
From last few years, there is a new trend in education. In earlier times, people were travelling great distance in order to get quality education. But with Interenet that's no more required. With Interent you can learn anything sitting in home. Most of the time these courses will be free or will be charging very less money. These kind of courses are called as MOOC- Massive open online course.
Whenever people hear about the online courses, there will be some questions arise. Particularly around the quality of the teaching and content. The following are few of FAQ asked by students
The courses provided by the MOOC companies like Coursera and Udacity are top notch.They are usually taught by the best in field. Most of the instructors hold Phd in the field and respected lecturers in the top colleges.
One of the advantages of online courses is they don't cost too much for the universities or companies to offer them to large amount of students. There are many great free courses in Coursera and very less costly courses in Udacity. So you should get your money worth.
Almost every computer related MOOC course will have extensive hands on. You will have sample examples and exercises for every week. These exercises should be submitted and will be evaluated by instructor for their correctness.
Yes. If you follow the course and complete the exercises you will get a certificate with marks by the time of completion.
Yes. These courses not just videos recorded by the lecturer. Every week there will be quizzes and exercises which will be evaluated by the instructor. There will be also group where you can ask instructor or fellow students any doubt about specific topic.
Coursera keeps the videos and exercises even after the course is completed. So if you don't care about the certificates you can watch videos and follow the course in your own pace.
No. There are variety of courses which cover business,fashion,psychology etc.
Most well known sites are coursera, udacity and khan academy
MOOC are the new way of learning. These courses offer high quality content with very cost effective way.
The following are the few courses you should start with. Once you become comfortable, you can explore more courses in future.