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Do we really need coursera? Most universities are uploading their lectures into youtube anyway.

• smsm42 11y ago
  Depends on your preferred learning model. If you can learn by just absorbing the narrative lectures, fine, but not everybody prefers it. For some, like myself, a degree of structure and interactivity provided by Coursera, helps a lot.
• aikah 11y ago
  Well a lot of coursera courses come with : - a community where you can discuss courses like in a real class - exercises,source,... that are often reviewed by real teachers or peer-review which absolutely invaluable at least for me . I learned a whole lot because of this. So it's way more than a youtube channel with a bunch of videos. Course are shot specifically for coursera.