Learn on the Go - take free online courses with this unofficial Coursera.org app for Windows Phone 8

Heard of Coursera? It's an didactics company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to have, for free. They have over 5 million students from 190 countries taking free online courses in Humanities, Medicine, Biological science, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Calculator Science, and more than. Feel similar taking a gratis class or 2? There's an unofficial Coursera app for Windows Phone 8 called Learn on the Go.

Y'all can spotter lecture videos and read course notes from your phone. Caput past the break to spotter our walkthrough video.

You demand a free Coursera account to apply the app. At that place's no pick inside the app to sign upwardly, so you lot need to do that from the browser. In that location's too no option to sign up for courses inside the app. What is this app good for? It lets you pre-download the lecture videos, and then you can then watch them later on the train or the bus.

There are over 500 courses bachelor from over 100 institutions on Coursera. Classes you are currently enrolled in prove upwards in the primary folio of Larn on the Become. Swiping left shows upcoming courses. Swipe again to see courses you already completed.

Click on a class to bear witness the materials for the week. The topics are listed with lecture notes and video. You can download each video for the week individually or click the option to download all at the lesser.

Acquire on the Become is a bang-up app for Windows Telephone users who are taking gratis classes at Coursera. There are a couple of things we'd like to run into in the future, though. Nosotros would like an option to stream videos instead of pre-downloading them. It would also be nice to have a carve up view of video with lecture notes. That would be awesome on larger screens like the Nokia Lumia 1520. Nosotros also think the app icon could exist better.

Learn on the Go is a gratuitous app at the Windows Phone Store. Go acquire something new and let us know what y'all recall of this app in the comments!

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