Would you like to know more about gamifing? Get the principles of statistics right? Understand the human genome? Explore poetry?
Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with Universities such as Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania and offers free online courses in areas such as humanities and social sciences, computer science, mathematics, biology, medicine etc.
Basically you get access to videos of lectures, reading material and get tested via quizzes and homework, just like in a real class. Except you can do it in your own time, at your own pace.
Here is a video from the online course Internet History, Technology, and Security (maybe you want to find out how come LinkedIn passwords were so easy to hack:)
Here’s a list of interesting courses connected to communications, marketing and social media:
- Social Network Analysis
- Basic Behavioral Neurology
- Introduction to Sociology
- Gamification
- Game Theory
- Human-Computer Interaction
