University taster sessions attract thousands
The university became the first in the UK to join the Coursera consortium, set up by academics in the US last year to provide web-based undergraduate level courses to anyone who wants to access them.
The five-week courses, which will begin in January, cover six disciplines across the humanities, engineering and science.
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Hide AdPrincipal Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea said: “Our success in attracting learners to experience what Edinburgh has to offer, at no cost to themselves, complements our expanding efforts in providing other forms of online learning including full postgraduate and other distance-learning courses.”