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UAB first university in Spain to join the Coursera platform

Coursera, the internationally renowned platform for free online courses, has picked three courses at the UAB to widen its offer. This makes the UAB the first university in Spain to offer MOOC courses (Massive Online Open Courses) internationally on a high-prestige platform. Coursera, with 2.8 million users, is increasing from 33 to 62 the number of educational institutions taking part in the project, picked from among the best in each country.

21/02/2013


Calculus, Egyptology and Histology, taught by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona lecturers, were added on 22 February to the course offer of Coursera, the renowned international platform for MOOC courses - online, free, and on a massive scale.
 
Coursera started life in April 2012 as an initiative by two Stanford University lecturers and now has 2.8 million users, 1.45 million enrolments per month and 322 courses in practically all areas of knowledge. Coursera has added 90 new courses at a total of 29 universities from 13 countries. This prestigious platform picks courses only from the best universities in each country.
 
The UAB is offering (https://www.coursera.org/uab) courses in Egyptology, on the language, history and culture of the Egypt of the pharaohs, taught by Josep Cervelló and José Lull, professors of the Department of Sciences of Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Basic Histology, focusing on differentiation between epithelial tissues, connective tissues, muscle tissues and nerve tissues, taught by Bernardo Castellano, a professor at the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology; and Pre-Calculus, to acquire basic skills in calculus (complex numbers, polynomials, differential and integral calculus, and differential equations), taught by Juan Jesús Donaire, a professor at the Department of Mathematics.

The following 29 institutions join the 33 that are already offering courses with Coursera:
 
● California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
● Case Western Reserve University
● Chinese University of Hong Kong
● Curtis Institute of Music
● Ecole Polytechnique, France
● IE Business School
● Leiden University, Netherlands
● Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München
● National Taiwan University
● National University of Singapore
● Northwestern University
● Penn State University
● Rutgers University
● Sapienza Università di Roma
● Technische Universität München (TUM)
● Technical University of Denmark
● The University of Tokyo
● Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
● Universidad TecVirtual del Sistema Tecnológico de Monterrey
● Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
● University of California, San Diego
● University of California, Santa Cruz
● University of Colorado, Boulder
● University of Copenhagen, Denmark
● University of Geneva, Switzerland
● University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
● University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
● University of Rochester
● University of Wisconsin-Madison