Massive Open Online Courses in Coursera and its Potencial Use in Latin-America for Engineering Programs
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Massive Open Online Courses, Distance Education, Engineering, MOOCAbstract
Massive Open Online Courses have changed the way in which education is conceived, especially in certain subjects and countries. The authors present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the languages and topics covered by the courses of Coursera, a leader in this field. We demonstrate that there are many courses with potential impact in the engineering careers in Latin-America. The topics are not restricted to Information and Computer Engineering, but they also include Mechanical, Civil, Hydraulic, Electric and Electronic Engineering. We show that several hundreds of courses are relevant for engineering. This number is growing and this is also the case of number of courses in the languages with more importance to our region.Downloads
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