Online Learning Update

June 8, 2013

Coursera to Offer Free Online Learning Textbooks

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

by: Brian Gabriel, Business Administration Information

Coursera, the leading provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), has partnered with Chegg to offer students online textbooks to aid them in the learning experience, according to a PR Newswire release. Chegg is an online student hub that connects millions of students to online tools they can use to help with their classes. The Chegg partnership will enable Coursera to offer eTextbooks from many publishers, including Cengage, Macmillan Higher Education, Oxford University Press and SAGE. According to the company press release, students will have free partial access to online textbooks in certain Coursera courses, with the option of purchasing the full version of the eTextbook for continued learning after the course.

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