By Molly Schulson, Brown University Daily Herald
The Office of Continuing Education will offer its first free pre-college online course, an introductory course entitled “Exploring Engineering,” starting next month through Canvas Network. The course will be offered through Canvas instead of Coursera, the online course platform that will host three Brown massive open online courses this summer, to allow the University to try out another method of virtual instruction, said Harriette Hemmasi, University librarian and chair of the strategic planning Committee on Online Teaching and Learning. The Coursera massive open online courses, also known as MOOCs, will be free, not for credit and open to anyone. “The more opportunities that we take advantage of and the more experimentation, the better,” Hemmasi said.
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