

In fact, we built Class Central’s MOOC Tracker as a notification service for online courses specifically to help students cope with the lack of start date information. There would be no indication of when (or if) the course would be offered again. It was quite common to encounter a course that you liked, only to discover that the course had already finished.

Timing was left to the university and its professors. On the old platform, the courses were session-based, and had no predictable schedule. In 2014, Coursera started re-building their platform from scratch in order to accommodate self-paced “on-demand” courses. The Great Abandoning View post on įirst, a quick history lesson. This guide will show you how to hurry up and legally download as many courses as possible before June 30th. Aside from recommending that students “take screenshots,” Coursera provided no guidance on which courses would become unavailable, nor how students could go about download their materials. Originally called “ Massive Open Online Courses,” these courses will no longer be open - or online, for that matter - because Coursera’s terms of use will prohibit students from sharing their materials once these courses go dark.īut we can still learn from these courses privately - if we can get ahold of them.

Coursera is shutting down their old platform on June 30th removing dozens (if not hundredsof courses from the internet on June 30thĬoursera is removing 472 free online courses from the internet on June 30th.
