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Anyone can tell me is there any certification upon completing a free online course from coursera

No. You must pay to receive a certificate. Capstone courses that are not free include a certificate. L3X1 (distænt write) 15:23, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

i am very poor. i cannot pay that much money.i do have 3 sisters. we belong to poor family. i want to read and be successful in future so i want to apply for coursera.

Swarnima shrestha (talk) 15:08, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gratis or for a fee?

After reading this article, I am still confused: are the courses (ignoring the certificates for now) gratis or for a fee? Or does this vary between individual courses? Even signing up to coursera doesn't clarify this. Their webpage contains conflicting information on this. There is a mention of a 7 day free trial period, suggesting courses cost after this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.215.204.201 (talk) 13:33, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Does the recently-added Coursera#Pricing and Fees section answer your question? (If I understand correctly, yes, it *does* vary between individual courses). --DavidCary (talk) 04:28, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Last I knew, if you didn't need the certificate, you could request "financial aid", which got it for free. I don't know if all will accept the request or give the free version. Gah4 (talk) 12:51, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can apply for Financial Aid (it takes 15 days for Coursera to approve your request). You will get access to full version of the course and a certificate at the end, provided you do all the required assignments and Peer Reviews (if present). They used to give access for 6 months so you don't need to complete the course in the same session, you can reset deadlines. Important: if you are applying for Financial Aid, don't start a Free Trial as it will cancel your Financial Aid application. Just go to the course (select the tiny link saying "audit this course"), start watching videos and doing assignments. You can preview them, you can mark the answers on the quizzes - you just cannot Submit them without full access - but the system should remember what you have marked so you can just go and Submit, Submit, Submit one quiz after another when you get your Financial Aid approved. You can apply for Finnacial Aid for up to 10 courses at the same time so e.g. you can apply for the whole Specialisation, except when there is a Capstone project. To apply for Financial Aid for a Capstone project, you need to have completed all the previous courses in a Specialisation. And, apart from the majoirity of courses that are paid, some courses are actually free - they are labeled FREE in the catalogue. --Legion23 (talk) 23:01, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Last I knew, it was pretty fast at giving aid, but that was some years ago. I am not sure by now, specialization vs. non-specialization, though. I forget now how "audit" works. Gah4 (talk) 01:22, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Audit" is just enrolling in the course for free without being able to submit quizzes and other graded assignments, and no certificate. "Auditing" gives access to most of the material (if not all). Non-specialisation courses work in the same way. Same with Professional Certificate courses. Legion23 (talk) 07:03, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Who updates with accurate info if a company/employee is not supposed to?

How does this get updated with accurate info if the company themselves are not supposed to edit? Follow up question. Is it frowned upon or is it actually not allowed? Does this mean factual information like partner numbers, enrollment numbers, degrees offered can only be done by a virtual stranger and since it's not a public company how would a stranger have that info? And why would a stranger care if the info is accurate and spend their own time fixing it? I'm not sure where I'm supposed to type four tildes but LittleMidg219 (talk) 23:50, 20 November 2019 (UTC) . (What does that do?)[reply]

That's a fair question. Well, you found this Talk page, so you're 90% of the way there. Even as an interested party, you can offer as much advice on changes and references to back them up as you like here, and a disinterested editor can then follow up. That may seem circuitous, but it allows for independent review before any changes hit the live article. --Steve Foerster (talk) 17:49, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Secondary (and tertiary) sources are preferred, but some things never get to those, yet are worth having. One important thing is that it isn't supposed to look like advertising, and that is for any editor, but especially for people connected to the subject. As above, if you post here, someone will likely copy it over. Reference to published sources, even primary sources, is better than none at all. Gah4 (talk) 18:55, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]