By ANDY WRIGHT, Bay Citizen
Want to learn cryptography, take a class in finance or a “crash course” in creativity? These are all online classes being offered for free this fall by Stanford University. The university is offering 16 free courses this year on three platforms, including Coursera, which helps colleges create online classes. Coursera was created by two Stanford computer science professors with $16 million in venture capital. No, you will not get course credit or a degree for taking the classes, though Stanford President John Hennessy told NPR that he could “see moving in that direction.” Stanford is not the only elite university to offer free online courses. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offer them as well.
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