Coursera Helps College Students Amid the Pandemic With 3800 Free Courses

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The platform offers the possibility to choose among various specialization programs, diplomas, and professional certifications for free.

Coursera Helps College Students Amid the Pandemic With 3800 Free Courses
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Students can choose among various specialization programs and professional certifications free of charge until July 31

Most college students are preparing for the end of this semester, having been interrupted by the COVID-19 contingency. Among doubts about the continuity of the next school year, the possibility of a semester with hybrid classes, or a completely online semester, Coursera has come to the support of hundreds of millions of students who were affected by the health crisis.

Until July 31, those students who wish to carry out a program within their catalog of more than 3800 courses, specialization programs, and professional certifications can do so for free, as long as they register with their institutional email. Students will have the opportunity to complete these courses until September 30, 2020.

Coursera offers a world-class learning opportunity thanks to the collaboration with more than 180 universities and businesses, including Yale, IBM, Duke University, Google, and Tecnológico de Monterrey, among other participating companies, colleges, and universities.

The offer is useful for all people who want to expand their skills on their resume. They can develop their competencies taking courses in creative writing, business, instructional design, artificial intelligence, physics, arts, plastics, guitar lessons, and even certificates of cybersecurity and public health. Coursera’s extensive list of varied educational topics fits the profile of most of its students and invites them to invest their time, even more, to develop the soft skills that in the new post-pandemic normality will be so necessary.

Coursera, founded in 2011, seeks to be a network of help and support for all those students in need of quality education from their homes. The platform recently unveiled CourseMatch, a new feature that matches its online programs with the subject catalogs in higher education institutions, thus leading to the development of higher education unified with expert developers of engaging online learning.

For more information visit: https://www.coursera.org/for-university-and-college-students

Paola Villafuerte

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