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Coursera is a global online learning platform that offers massive open online courses (MOOCs), specializations and degrees. Users can build skills with courses from universities like Yale, Stanford and New York University and companies like Google and IBM.

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    Reviewed July 6, 2015

    The format of the Coursera course I am taking is unclear and clumsy. Sometimes parts or it lock up or crash. I don't know if it is the course (Python for Everyone) or the platform that is so cumbersome, since this is the first (and maybe the last) Coursera course I've tried to take. Peer feedback seems like a good idea, but many of the fellow students fall into one of two categories: IT-savvy people who are adding Python to their list of languages and write in ways that are too complicated (i.e., assume too much) for the "everyones" who are taking the course on the assumption that one does not have to know more than the prerequisites listed, or good-meaning people who do not write coherent English sentences.

    Compared to a live class, where the instructor can interact with me, this MOOC format is really weak. Also (again, I don't know if this is just this course or Coursera in general), we are not allowed to give even partial answers (code lines in this case) to other students. The idea is that giving us an answer won't help us. Well, not giving us an answer sometimes sure hurts us. The frustration this course raises a high effective barrier. Instead of asking a question and waiting a few minutes to several hours for a sometimes opaque, cutesy or snarky -- or useful but intentionally partial --response, it would be nice if I could get some help, as I can in a live classroom, even when an instructor does not give the answer. All in all, this is a struggle, with a slow-moving (technical) platform and an awkward (soft) set up that is not organized in a way that is intuitive to me and doesn't seem to have a clear structured guide as an alternative.

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    Coursera Company Information

    Company Name:
    Coursera
    Year Founded:
    2012
    Address:
    381 E Evelyn Ave
    City:
    Mountain View
    State/Province:
    CA
    Postal Code:
    94041
    Country:
    United States
    Website:
    www.coursera.org