Jan 20, 2017 07:00 PM
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I came to know about coursera in my second year of college. Back then coursera used to offer all the courses for free, but unfortunately I didn't do any of the courses at that time. When I felt the need of enhancing my techinal and soft skills through some online courses, I found that material on coursera was great but it no longer had free courses. It asks for huge amount of money, around 3000-4000 per course. Although it has financial aid but it's just for name, and is not available for everybody. I tried to apply for financial aid, which demands hell lot of details and even after waiting for some 2-3 weeks for the application to be accepted, it most of the times, ends up being rejected. It has in a way, become profitable organization from being non profit organization. Although it has wide range of subjects and courses nut the course material on coursera can be substituted with that on udacity atleast for technology courses(computer science oriented), and that too free of cost. Although the the way of teaching and the course material was good and informative but it is of no use to students who can not afford to pay its fees.
So, yes I would other sites like NPTEL which is a government site and provides courses and certifications free of cost, and Udacity, which allows to take courses for free but demands money for certificates.
