MOOC giant Coursera will provide online video discussion with professors function

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Coursera, which has a massive public course video, recently announced that they are exploring the ability to provide online video discussions to students, in addition to video classes, to communicate and discuss video with professors in real time, and even to hold a small seminar online. If this function is successful online, students will be charged a certain fee.

The news was announced by Coursera's new masters, Rick Levin, at Wall Street Journal's WSJD conference that the product would be online next year. This is not the Coursera launch of the first billing product, as early as 2012, the MOOC giant began its own way to become a cash.

2012:headhunting

At the end of 2012, when Coursera had 2 million users, it launched a fee-based career service to Coursera excellent students and excellent companies on the platform. Coursera to interested companies to charge a certain fee to provide them with potential talent resources. Companies that have used this service are mainly technology companies, such as Facebook,twitter.

But the project has been shut down, and even you can't find traces of it in Coursera's official website. But this is the first step of Coursera to make use of its own products.

2013:verified certificate/signature Track

Shortly after the launch of the Headhunting project, Coursera introduced verified Certificate/signature track products (previously reported here). Coursera courses are still open and free, but if you want to get an authoritative certificate, you'll have to pay a fee. Although the price of each certificate is only 49 U.S. dollars, but the introduction of this product to Coursera in a short period of 9 months to the revenue of 1 million U.S. dollars.

2014:specializations

In 2014, Coursera a step forward on the way out, and they launched a new curriculum project specializations, where students can learn a subject by specializations several sets of courses. For example, if you want to know how to make an Android application, you will be presented with a course package that teaches students a series of knowledge about the application (the previous report point here). Coursera fees for all course items on specializations, 49 dollars a group of classes.

According to the data provided by Coursera, specializations products have been online for 5 months, more than 14,000 have purchased specializations paid projects, while specialisations projects have stimulated verified Certificate/signature Track product sales, the current conservative estimate, specializations for Coursera brought 1 million of dollars in revenue.

More and more people in China join Mooc's Entrepreneurial brigade, and Coursera has been one of the objects of their reference and catch-up. Coursera how to explore the course of the value-added profit business from a free MOOC website may be able to provide some new ideas and ideas for domestic entrepreneurs.