1. What is the purpose of the website?
Answers:
Coursera is referred to as one of the most widely used and one of the world’s best online course providers. This website is partnered with different museums, universities and many other institutions. The purpose of this website is to deliver online courses for the willing students.
This website offers online courses on engineering, humanity, medicine, computer, marketing, data science etc. Thus, the audiences of this particular website are students.
- What is the information served in the website?
After analyzing the official website of Coursera it is defined that, two different categories are available in this website both for the students and for the business person also. Additionally, it also provides the detail of courses with top specialization and subjects related to other popular courses, data science and computer science as well.
- What kinds of information are provided in this website?
The detail of the study courses and the additional textbook for featuring the pre recorded videos and quiz are also illustrated in details in this website.
- Would the information on the site be considered academically reliable? Why/why not?
As this paper offers online courses to the students thus this website is referred to as academically reliable in nature.
- Why might you choose to access this site?
I found that this particular website is very much reliable in nature because it offers details of different courses to the students. Additionally, the students have opportunities to take admission in more than 2 courses at a time.
- Why might you choose to access this site?
I have selected this particular website because it offers different online course details on different subjects.
- Would you recommend this site to your peers? Why/why not?
Yes, I would like to recommend this site to a peer. The users of this website could use this for academic purposes and as many teachers are associated and linked to this site thus the students could ask for additional queries through the online platform.
References
Coursera (2017). Coursera | Online Courses From Top Universities. Join for Free.
[online] Coursera. Available at:
https://www.coursera.org/?utm_campaign=elearningindustry.com&utm_source=%2F8-inspiring-elearning-websites-offer-students-inspiring-educational-alternatives&utm_medium=link [Accessed 20 Oct. 2017].
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