Coursera | More Initial Reactions

Course: Introduction to Sustainability, Week One

- Reviewed all of this week's course material
- Participated actively in a few forums and quizzes
- Researched the team at Coursera working behind the scenes
- Connected with Intro2Sustainability peers in multiple countries

1. I would like to determine what percentage of content my subscriptions exposes me to compared to total available content.  The average user? What information does Coursera track about user behavior? Any publicly available analytic?

2. Questions regarding quality standards, discusdion monitoring...groupthink and traditional critisisms of virtual forums.

3. Coursera facilitates hyperspeed merging of academic interests and the establishment of associations between people whom might otherwise not have met due to a variety of given barriers (institutional, linguistic, class, ethnic, situational, etc.) -- It is doing what study abroad, professional exchange, and international aid are doing, but a gazillion time faster, more equitably, and at a fraction of the cost!

4.  Coursera is a progressive company, not unlike Google, but comparatively, a very small and tech-y team. 

5.  24,000+ students enrolled in #Intro2sustainability !!

6.  Forums, feedback and frustrations!