On the morning of August 20th, at FPT University’s Hoa Lac Campus, a signing ceremony was conducted between FPT University and Coursera – the world’s largest online learning platform. With this signing, FPT University officially becomes Coursera’s strategic partner, paving the way for cooperative programs in the coming time.
The ceremony was attended by Dr. Le Truong Tung – President of FPT University; Dr. Nguyen Khac Thanh – Rector of FPT University; Dr. Nguyen Kim Anh – Vice Rector of FPT University, along with the heads of functional departments, heads of the faculties of all campuses of FPT University, representatives of different organizations within FPT Education, and representatives of FCU – the internal training center of FPT Corporation. On the side of Coursera, there were Mr. Eklavya Bhave – Sale Lead – Asia Pacific and Mr. Deepak Kumar Gupta – Enterprise Implementation Manager – APAC as the representatives.
At the ceremony, FPT University gave an overview of the University as well as the programs, educational philosophy, and points of difference. Then, Mr. Eklavya Bhave presented a brief overview on the Coursera platform. According to Mr. Bhave, Coursera currently has over 3,000 courses and 310 specializations from many prestigious partner universities such as Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan etc.
In the later half of the program, the two representatives of Coursera provided hands-on training on how to use the Coursera platform to FPTU’s faculty and staff members. The faculty and staff members also had a Q&A session with Coursera’s representatives to resolve their questions on the operations of the system as well as programs of Coursera.
“Becoming a strategic partner of Coursera is one of the activities in the process of digital transformation by FPT Education. With this cooperation, Coursera will help lecturers perform their role as supporters and consultants for students. At the same time, the system also provides students with access to over 3,000 courses on the platform”, said Mr. Phan Truong Lam, Head of Academic Affairs, FPT University.
According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa – Head of the English Department, FPT University, “Coursera offers many great courses taught by professors from the world’s top universities like Stanford or MIT. I myself really like and wish to take many courses from Coursera. The main language of these courses is English, so in order to study on this platform, learners need a good command of English. For students, they can read the subtitles if their listening comprehension is not yet good. This is also a way for them to improve their English.”
| Coursera was founded in April 2012 by two professors of computer science from Stanford University. To date, this online learning platform offers more than 3,000 courses from 150 prestigious universities around the globe, and is attended by 35,000 learners at any given time. Some famous universities in the world that have training cooperation with Coursera include Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania etc. The special feature of this online learning platform is that students can get a Certificate or a Degree after completing a course’s final exam. |