Thursday, May 16, 2019

Understanding Coursera

Wikipedia is the first place to look.

This explains (in general terms) what it provides for free, and what it charges for.

It no doubt feels that charging $49 a month for its excellent courses, should not be much of a burden for its online students.

As one of these students, living on my American Social Security retirement income in Costa Rica, $49 a month is a lot.

I am taking several Coursera courses, and when it recently started charging me $49 a month I did not know which course this was for and had no way of finding out. Coursera's user interface does not provide this service. It does not provide a way for a student to leave a course either. Its user interface needs to be improved badly.

It should notify a student whenever it charges for a course, so the student knows what is going on financially, and can opt out.

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