hi my name is Diana Sunshine and I'm
with the Coursera team working very
closely with the University of Colorado
Boulder Master of Science in Electrical
Engineering team and we're very excited
for today's webinar about our new
program so I went while we're waiting
for everybody to join the webinar we
thought we would start with a poll
to know how did you hear about this
program so right now I'm going to launch
the poll and you should be seeing it and
if you just click on whatever answer
that you want we should be able to see
how people are hearing about it oh this
is so exciting. As people
are joining, I want to have
everyone get accustomed to the zoom
interface if you take your mouse and you
scroll along the bottom you're gonna see
that you can do some chat. So it would be
great right now if everyone clicked on
their chat button and put where you're
chiming in from today.
We're really
excited typically we see people from all
around the world. We have people from
Waterloo, Columbus Ohio, Minneapolis, New
Jersey, Boulder, yay, Los Angeles. this is
awesome so we have a lot of people from
all around the world so good morning,
good afternoon, good evening and from
whatever time zone that you're checking
in with us today. The second thing I
wanted to highlight is that at the
bottom you're gonna see there's a Q&A
button and we would really like it
if everybody would put their questions
into the Q&A button it makes it easier
so that at the end of the webinar when
we're done presenting about the
program that we can answer everybody's
questions. I'm going to end the poll
right now and it looks like that most
people learned about it from the
Coursera website and
after that people learned about the
program from receiving an email.
Excellent. I'm sharing out the results
and I would like to introduce our
panelists. we have two people from the
University of Colorado, We have Bob
Erickson and we have Adam Sadoff. Off to
you guys
Welcome to this webinar this is the
first master science program and
electrical engineering that has been
offered using this format of open
massive sized course so we're very
excited to launch this program and
we're very excited to be working with
Coursera on this so I'm Bob Erickson I'm
a professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and I am the
interim department chair and I'm Adam
Sodoff Graduate Program Advisor for this
program. My name is Robin McClanahan
I'm the operations manager for the
department and I will be monitoring the
Q&A. Just a brief description about we'll
be doing today we will give an overview
of the MSEE degree and then we'll go
through some of the most common
questions that we've been asked in the
last days months and weeks and at the
end we'll entertain the questions you
might have thought of during from during
the presentation. This degree is 100%
online and presented through the
Coursera system. It's designed to be
customizable and flexible and really
designed around the needs of distance
students working profess professionals
and people around the world. It's
highly flexible format it employs
performance-based admissions and this is
a pretty new approach for
admissions to a master's degree in which
you as a student demonstrate that you
can handle the work by earning at least
at the begining a pathway specialization
that's one of the first courses in the
degree program and if you're able to
maintain a B average and choose to be
admitted or request admission then
you're in.
It does not require any other
admissions process at all and to get
started on the process you simply
declare your intent by clicking on the
start now button on the Coursera MSEE
page. It offers the same degree as the
on-campus students so the courses are
taught at the same level as our
on-campus Master of Science degree
program and we assume the same
prerequisites. We assume that students
coming in do have knowledge at the level
of you know someone who learned an
undergraduate degree in electrical
engineering. The court the degree
program is at a high level and the
Diploma is the same diploma that we are
give to our on-campus or resident
students. It confers a master of science
and electrical engineering with no
further qualifications or statements
about this is an online program or
anything else and we've received
questions about the accreditation our
innovative curriculum has received
accreditation from the Higher Learning
Commission. The HLC this means you'll
receive the same high quality
educational experiences as our
traditional on-campus program and if you
choose to pursue the full degree the
credential will carry with it the same
weight as any on-campus CU master's
degree most of the material is available
in non-credit form so you can sign up
through Coursera to take most of these
courses as is non-credit and in fact
it's a good idea if you're not sure
whether you can handle the work to try
it for for non-credit so you can start
in some of the non-credit courses and
special
now and you can upgrade from non-credit
to credit status later if you do that
then material that you complete
assignments you complete in the
non-credit version of the course will be
applied to the for credit experienced so
here's a diagram of how the non-credit
works you can sign up on certain content
for a free trial through Coursera for
more content including for example the
homework assignments you can pay a
monthly subscription fee that's
relatively inexpensive low fee to to
work through the homework assignments
and and this is a good way to try it out
and just see how it goes and whether
you're able to handle the level of the
material and whether it fits in with the
schedule of your for example your job or
your life and if you stay in the
non-credit track then you will earn
completion certificates for the
non-credit courses but those
certificates don't appear on your
student transcript from the University
of Colorado
they are simply non-credit courses but
at any time when you're taking a
non-credit version of a course you can
upgrade to the for credit version and
you'll be able to pay tuition and switch
in extra to discuss tuition students pay
per credit hour rather than by semester
and this allows for maximum flexibility
tuition is assessed a pay-as-you-go per
course basis mini courses invite
students to test their skills through
hands-on labs or exercises these courses
curate sets of lab kits for students to
purchase and use at home the lab kits
are quite affordable at around $20 more
information can be found in the course
description pages
so the registration process is very
simple them we have automated online
enrollment and registration process
connected to the Coursera system and
again as Adam just mentioned it's
pay-as-you-go tuition so you simply pay
by the credit hour when you sign up for
non-credit courses so here's a diagram
of how the four credit process works you
can upgrade at any time from the
non-credit version or you could go
directly into the credit version if
you'd like
again we suggest that if you're not sure
to try out the non-credit and see how it
goes and then upgrade later so you can
take sign up for a four credit course at
any time to gain admission into the MSEE
program as a degree student you need
to complete one of the pathway
specializations for credit and we'll
talk about what those are in a minute so
you this pathway specialization is a
collection of several short say one
month long courses and if you sign up
for credit then they will include things
like exams and grades in preparatory
material for the exams as well as course
facilitators and other support things in
the program so if you get through a
pathway specialization and complete it
with a grade point average of at least B
or higher then you can push the button
to be admitted and you are then
officially a degree student in the
program and there are no further
constraints or requirements. When you are
admitted to the degree program then to
earn the master's degree you need to
complete 30 credit hours within the
program with a grade point average of at
least B
and when you do that then you will earn
the master's degree.
 
You can also earn certificates and these
are graduate certificates issued by the
campus the Boulder Campus graduate
school and we'll have several graduate
certificates and different specializing
in different areas that basically are
our nine to twelve credit hours and
length so they're shorter than the full
master's degree but they are a
credential issued by the department and
you can earn those either stand alone as
certificates or in conjunction with your
full degree right or those along the way
yes yes okay so the degree is designed
to be customizable and flexible to meet
the needs of working professionals many
of us who are professors and staff in
this department have had the same
experience as you raising families
working full-time,
we've designed this to help accommodate
you with the highest amount of
flexibility the duration of the time of
the coursework takes will vary student
by student any given course may require
as much as four to six hours of work in
a week so you may plan on how many
courses you could sustain concurrently
accordingly courses are often are often
offered for fractional credits so we've
taken some of the main elements of our
regular traditional program and made
them into more digestible pieces for you
who are working full time and you need
smaller periods of time to study these
these are we've condensed them down to
to a very manageable amount of time and
this is because we've we've redesigned
our campus curriculum in into these
focused manageable topics if you are
already enrolled in one or more courses
affiliated with a pathway program you
will have to pay tuition and enroll in
the for credit versions and complete any
remaining coursework for credit
in the structure of the four credit
courses is designed around the structure
that Coursera has already adopted so we
have courses now that our short short
segments say a month-long course that
you can take and we found that it
becomes more manageable to divide the
courses into smaller segments so several
courses are grouped together into a
specialization and a specialization in
in this program is approximately
equivalent to a regular semester long
three credit hour course although it it
won't be or need not exactly be that but
a specialization is a group of topics or
a group of month-long courses to
gain admittance into the program. Again
one must complete a pathway
specialization one of our designated
entry specializations with it with this
grade of B or greater graduate
certificate students and we have
certificates that are groups of
specializations and courses and as we
mentioned I mentioned a couple of slides
ago these graduate certificates are
issued by the call the Boulder campus
graduate school and they are generally a
collection of several specific
specializations and perhaps additional
courses. We have in this
hierarchy your stackable curriculum here
we have groups of courses that might be
one credit or even a fraction of a
credit hour each and roughly one month
long each several courses are grouped in
with specialization that is roughly
three credit hours and equivalent
approximately to an on-campus semester
long course we have the graduate
certificates that are available as a
collection of specializations and
courses.
Then we
have the full degree that requires 30
credit hours and eventually we will
offer up to maybe up to approximately
100 credit hours of material and the
program for you to choose from
so you any 30 credit hours of course has
earned through this program with a B
average or higher then will will earn
the degree because it is completely
customizable you choose the 30 hours
that you want for your degree that works
well for your work environment the
skills you need as a working
professional right in October 2018 we
will roll out three limited pathway
specializations for credit and to get to
get started on that process simply
declare your intent by clicking the
start now on our Coursera MSEE
description page in January and across
2020 many more courses in the elective
curriculum will roll out although only
some of them will be additional pathway
specializations so in October 2019 we
plan to to start these three
specializations so when in power
electronics one an optical engineering
and an embedded systems course embedding
sensors and motors so these will be
available for credit in October any one
of these is is eligible as a pathway
specialization that you can complete and
gain an entry to the degree program we
have two other pathway specializations
that will roll out pretty soon after
that one on FPGA design printed systems
and another on semiconductor devices
and then we anticipate rolling out quite
a few additional specializations in
different areas beginning in January of
2020 and the full degree program will be
in operation then in the year 2020 so we
had we grouped these into different
general areas we have specializations in
power electronics on the way so here
they are in addition to the 1st October
power electronics course or
specialization we have specializations
in photonics and optics your so these
are three in addition to the two pathway
specializations we have quite a few
specializations and embedded systems on
the way so here's a list of five of them
in addition to two other pathways and we
have specializations in the works in
other areas including the communications
control systems electro magnetics and
computer engineering areas
approximately 30 specializations
available totaling almost a hundred
credit hours of material and you'll need
30 credit hours to get the master's
degree which is roughly ten
specializations worth of material so
again it's highly elective and
customizable per coulomb and we've been
asked well transfer credits so currently
the embassy cannot accept transfer
credit from another program and may be
able to transfer credits earn for the
MSC here did you take to another
university of program at the discretion
of that receiving institution we get
questions regarding scholarships and
financial aid because of this new type
of degree program and the accreditation
process that we are going through we're
currently not able to offer scholarships
our financial aid for it we do
understand the cost of course is a
consideration for everybody
and what we have done is we've been able
to greatly reduce the tuition that we
charge and so the six hundred sixty
seven dollars per credit hour is a
significant reduction from our regular
on-campus tuition that tuition depends
on the degree program but the this
program is less than half of the tuition
of the on-campus programs also it's a
pay-as-you-go program so if you sign up
for a say point eight credit hour course
then you'll pay point eight times six
hundred sixty seven dollars in tuition
at that time so I think it's by dividing
it into small chunks we try to keep the
cost manageable we do anticipate that if
you take courses close to full-time you
can graduate in two years or as you know
as fast as you can handle the work
of course you can go at a slower pace
according to your own schedule in your
life we do require you to complete
course or complete the degree within
seven years of earning credit for our
course so you can declare your intent to
enroll today by visiting the URL in the
chat box that's so simply complete the
one-minute form and away we go
okay thanks Bob and Adam all right we'll
start answering your
we do have several questions on the same
topic so I might not say your question
exactly but I think by grouping them
together we can get through the number
of questions that we have so the first
question does the MSEE have a first
official accreditation yes it does yes
and does that accreditation work for
people who are outside of the US it does
it is equivalent to any of the standard
degrees already offered for many many
decades on the campus it is completely
equivalent in accreditation great so
what is the time frame that's required
to complete the degree seven years is
the maximum time or the time that's
required that we anticipate that most
people will complete it within two to
two-and-a-half years just like they do
in our regular on-campus program our
tuition benefits available for Cu
faculty and staff or excuse me
are the tuition benefits that Cu faculty
and staff receive applicable to the
Coursera courses as part of the MS EE
program I don't know I don't think they
are we haven't that question hasn't come
up yet so I think that's something that
the campus could be asked another
question that several people have asked
is a master's thesis required some of
the people have said they don't want to
write a master's thesis and others have
said that they really want one because
they want research experience so could
you talk a little bit about that
so the master's thesis and the research
experience is confined to the on-campus
or residential program
that allows the thesis as an option this
program because it's designed for very
high scale is a coursework only degree
great another question how our
specializations converted into
university credits and could you give an
example so in fact every poor credit
course that is earned in this degree
program earns university credit that
then appears on the students regular
university transcript paint another
student is asking
will there be computer security courses
available specifically embedded systems
/ IOT security that's a very good
question and I'm not sure if the current
content that that would be the case but
we can speak with our MSEE faculty and
see what their plans are for that so we
know it's very popular okay I tried to
apply earlier but was told that one must
take the GRE exams is this true you know
it for this program if you applied to
the on-campus residential program the
GREs are required there is no GRE
requirement for this Pro this program
and our only requirement is the the
performance-based admissions that we've
discussed
what are the minimum and maximum credit
requirements per semester firstly this
is not offered on a semester basis this
is more self-paced doesn't follow our
semester timing the the campus there is
there's no per se standard required
enrollment this is this is set by you
and you take on what you're able to do
is specially if you're a full-time
worker you go at the pace that you feel
is comfortable for you to get the work
done it's very customizable and it's not
synchronized to the campus semester and
alright okay it's very novel program so
can you transfer certificate credits
once I decide to become an MS students
student any any courses that you sign up
for credit will count so if it's a four
credit course earned in this program it
can count towards the degree we don't
transfer courses in from other programs
okay
several people have asked about
scholarships and some of the questions
are from people outside the US and some
are domestic could you talk a little bit
about scholarships and tuition again
because we've already using this
Coursera platform we've been able to so
radically lower our regular traditional
degree cost then already this the
savings and for that reason
instructional II we are not offering
tuition assistance is just simply a low
price or the tuition in general and plus
you have that ability to pay as you go
as you can afford and in quite
affordable rate for each course that you
take program
thank you how are exams administered so
generally there will be usually there
will be an exam at the end of a course
so a one month long course will end in
an exam generally these exams are
proctored and we use a a proctoring
service than to run the exam we try to
write the exams to be similar to the
homework experiences although they are
usually a timed exam yeah run through
the proctoring service okay I have an MS
in computer science but I don't have an
electrical engineering undergraduate
degree how many prerequisites would a
non BS EE major have and would those
prerequisites be take it once in the
program or could they be taken now so
what what I would recommend you do is
sign up for a non-credit version of the
course and see how it goes and try it
out now we will have we will have some
sample exams to test your knowledge but
don't count for anything but are just a
way for you to see how you see how your
your prerequisite knowledge is but I
think the best way is to just try out
the non-credit and if it goes well then
then you can upgrade apart from paying
tuition how much extra work is needed to
convert the Coursera specialization to a
cu-boulder
credit so the course the credit versions
of these courses
generally we'll have some preparatory
material for the exams they will have
the exams they will have course
facilitators that provide additional
help and it's up to the course the
instructor of the course as to what else
they will have so we say as a minimum it
should have the exam and the additional
material as far as homework assignments
go generally that they are the same
homework assignments in the credit and
non-credit versions which is why we
encourage you to take the non-credit
version first to get really comfortable
both with the style of teaching the the
means of accessing the teaching
instruction and to feel quite confident
at a certain point while taking the
known non degree portion to switch over
to the degree portion you feel that you
can conclude in a successful manner are
there any non engineering courses that
can be taken that count as credit
towards this degree we don't currently
have any of those in this program so far
all of our courses are offered through
the department the electrical
engineering department how can I
determine the amount of credits in the
introductory specialization course do
you will be listed clearly when you're
enrolling for any given course they'll
say what what how many credit hours is
each one that you're looking it right
the credit hours on the length of the
course yes can you switch from
non-credit to the degree program after
you have completed the non-credit course
you can switch at any time yes before
during and after
is the gap between the undergraduate
program and an MS program does it matter
I'm assuming that it's been a while
since they earned their undergraduate
degree so I think it's just a matter of
can you handle the material yeah and I
think I think again I'd encourage this
question I'd encourage a person to try
it out try out the non-credit and see
how it goes it's my personal experience
nearly a couple decades of great advisor
in the traditional program that can vary
by the individual some people retain
that due to working in industry almost
all that time since their undergraduate
studies and others may have been away
from both industry and their studies for
them they might need to take some
refresher work but the majority people
seem to handle pretty well can I
transfer from this program to be an
on-campus student to do that you have to
apply to the on-campus degree program
and that requires going through the
normal on-campus admission process which
is a traditional mission process
be in pro and courses that are earned in
this program if you want to transfer
those to our campus program you would
have to go through our transfer credit
process to do that so that they are
separate and distinct degree programs in
that sense several students have said
there are in different area in different
countries around the world such as
Canada and India Afghanistan they want
to know if they are eligible to enroll
in this program yes they are any country
where that is served by Coursera
residents of that country can enroll
this is one of our goals for
establishing this program is for
students who it could be a financial
burden to come the United States and to
pay for the visa this go through the
whole process just I believe this
program is very high appeal for
international students and we have built
in large part for you as well as for
working professionals in the United
States and globally what are the
requirements to apply to this program
and how many courses should I take to
complete the entire program so it's a
performance-based admissions process the
only thing you do is sign up for the
credit version of a pathway
specialization and complete that
specialization with a grade point
average of at least 3.0 or be and push
the button saying you want to be
admitted to the degree program that is
the entire admission process and it'll
be roughly 30 courses to complete the
degree but because some of them are
fractional a little bit less it might be
fewer or more depending on how all your
credit hours add up again you just need
a total of 30 course credit hours
however there might be comprised
and that will earn you the degree can
you complete more than one Coursera
specialization that counts toward the
master's degree yes you know again you
need the for credit version of the
Coursera specialization those
specializations are run around three
credit hours each
so then approximately ten of them would
add up to the 30 credit hours needed for
the degree and it's your choice as to
how you want to mix and match any of the
content within the program right do I
need to take only one pathway course
with a B or higher to be admitted or all
available pathway courses you need only
take one yeah to be admitted once you're
admitted you can take the rest of them
if you want to and earn the credits but
one is all it takes to be admitted what
are the prerequisites needed to start
the program I have a math background and
want to be sure that I'll be successful
so I would suggest you I mean the math
background is good you may want to see
you know your knowledge of say circuits
and electronics and again this depends
on the exact courses that you take in
the degree program but for example and
the power electronics course that I
teach we really assume that incoming
students have knowledge of sophomore
levels circuits in electronics and that
that's assumed so again I would suggest
you just try a non-credit version and
see how it goes and if you if things are
unfamiliar and there are problems then
you might want to go take a say a
non-credit
circuits or electronics course that
Coursera offers now to work through that
material will there be a limit to how
many students can enroll in the program
at any given time that is is there the
possibility of the program being full
already when I apply so we are limiting
the first courses in October because
we're rolling out the new program and we
want to make sure that everything runs
smoothly once the program is fully
running in January of 2020 there will be
no limits will this online MS degree be
helpful in pursue a future PhD sure it
is it is equivalent both in
accreditation and content to our
traditional masters programs that we've
had for many many many decades here in
the canvas the way to do that would be
to apply to the on-campus ph.d program
upon completion of a master's program is
there any required TOEFL or GRE scores
for international students no not at all
again just a pathway specialization
passed with a 3.0 GPA and you're in so
no standardized exam scores no TOEFL or
IELTS no GRE
not even transcript ler recommendation
and statement purpose none of that it's
performance based
okay our the pathway specializations on
Coursera as of today work-in-progress
versions of October 2019
not really sure yes they are so for
example these they don't include the
graded portions of the specializations
and I can say in the case of my power
electronics specialization that we have
a second version in the works that will
be available for non-credit in the
non-credit version sometime later this
summer and that one will become the the
for credit version in October can we
start the classes at any time or will
there be a hard schedule for classes the
sessions will have start and stop times
but they'll be continuously rolling so
you can start at any time what is the
process for getting credit for courses
that I have taken before acceptance into
the program if they were courses that
you took for credit offered by this
program and and so you took them and
earned credit before you are admitted to
the degree program then those will count
automatically we don't accept transfer
credit at this time for courses taken
elsewhere now this is an online
automated process that that isn't able
to take transfer credit from other
programs
hello I am currently doing the power
electronic certificate great course by
the way but I am a little bit hesitant
to choose this online master versus
others because I've received little help
from the TA
how do you plan the teaching and student
meetings are there office hours or
punctual questions for example so the
for credit version will have hired we're
not calling them TAS but a basically
they are and there will be times
question and answer times sort of like
office hours that will be available what
if I completed the existing power
electronics specialization on Coursera
before October 2018 well then you should
be primed and ready to go for it if you
want to take the credit version again
the credit version is a little different
so we do recommend you that you wait
until the the version 2 is up having
said that you'll have a good head start
on it will I have access to a University
of Colorado email and student online
resources as well as the library and
others yes you will yes we're working on
that so once you are admitted as a
degree student then yes you will have
that kind of access you'll also have
access to alumni resources and are very
extra services Center many many really
good on-campus resources will be
available to you as well right what
preparation would you recommend for
students who are looking to transition
into the field
they need requisite math Emma's level
applied math or basic university science
as in physics for example for a
background but no engineering and do you
plan on offering any prerequisite
courses or could I take them through an
undergraduate school like basic circuits
for example yes so again where we are
assuming prerequisite knowledge at the
level of a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering we don't require
a credit and credit or transcripts in
that area but simply that you are able
to perform so I would suggest if you
don't have that material again try some
non-credit versions and it doesn't have
to be from University of Colorado I
think there are good circuits and
electronics and similar courses
available today on Coursera in on the
non-credit form a number of people have
written in with basically the same kind
of question regarding who the students
turn to if they need help
will they be able to contact the faculty
for assistance who who's going to be
there to help them if they're having
trouble so we have will we will have in
course facilitators but are basically
graduate students or ta type people we
will have subject matter experts
available we'll have Adam available as
our graduate advisor and there we will
have the course creators available as
well so this is kind of a triage or a
hierarchy so the first line of contact
will be the the course facilitators but
they will be able to escalate question
and things up the line can a student on
the Coursera platform attend career
fairs on campus I believe so I think
that's part of the access to on-campus
services that if you are a student and
over the vectors to Career Service I
don't know about that connecting to
carrier services so they will be they
will have have they'll have access to to
some of the our Career Service office
services the most honorably in handshake
which is an online program the Career
Services offers as far as these other
more detailed things I think we'll have
to look into that and get back to you on
exactly quite career services will be
available in how do we enroll for the
October classes being offered currently
on Coursera it shows all the classes
including the ones mentioned starting in
October as starts April 25 so those I
guess the sessions the four credits
sessions are not up yet we were taking
salt declarations or tents to enroll for
a limited number right as we said we're
gonna cap the thing each of the
introductory pathway specializations 275
students each in the October rollout and
after than that it will open up wide so
you will be able to declare your intent
to enroll in an online form very soon
yeah
what happens if you fail the exams so
the you're able to take the course one
more time to repeat the course a second
time before the pathway for the entrance
to the degree instead of course yeah
yeah any four credit course you can
repeat once so it's a partly in this in
this degree pair we really are again
assuming that foundational strength and
based on our traditional programs people
who do have the foundational strengths
you're just fine in general program do
classes that do not receive in which you
do not receive a B or better need to be
retaken currently our graduate school
will let you count a course with a grade
of C towards the degree as you just need
to have an overall grade point average
over three board of 3.0
will there be more pathways launched
soon or prior to the official program
launch in October so we have five
pathways specializations currently
planned so the the three that were
listed for October and two others
following soon afterwards it's possible
that in the future additional pathways
specializations will be available in
2020 or 20 21 but the current list that
we can promise now is those five does
the online MSE program have an
internship program
no we haven't thought about that again
there's something we can look we can
consult with with the Career Services
said you guys to see how much
integration will be with that right yeah
we we have talked with quite a few
companies including our in Department
industrial advisory board and they've
expressed great interest in this program
so I think this is something that you
can can explore yeah our department
already has very very strong industry
ties you know among the different so
specializations and we certainly aimed
it strengthened that part of this
program as well there are a number of
question a number of questions from
students around the same thing basically
what's the difference between the
courses that are up on Coursera now that
are going to be launched in October and
specifically one person asks what's the
difference between the power electronics
special asian specialization version 1
and version 2 so we figured out that
version 1 has a lot more material in it
than our on-campus equivalent course and
so what we're doing is
removing that extra material and
packaging it into other courses or other
specializations so the version two will
be four courses total whereas version
one has six so version 2 will be courses
one two three and five version one and
of course 4 is going into an all new
specialization under development and
that it's will be available soon a
really a second semester of power
electronics there's a capstone design
course in its course six in version one
that will be a standalone course that
will be part of the power electronics
certificate ok we only have about five
minutes left to answer questions and
there are still numerous questions that
people have asked a lot of them are the
same or around the same topic so I'll
try and pick some that representative
let's see Robyn actually do you mind if
we launch the poll right now so while
people but I listening to the final
questions they can answer the last poll
that's great thank you
so one person has asked if this degree
program is affiliated to the Washington
Accord I don't know what that is either
what kind of advising is available to
help you structure her a degree program
in a meaningful way sorry again I was
read the polls fast
what kind of advising is available to
help students plan their degree program
that works for them this in a large
sense again where we're counting on you
yourselves to have foundational
strengths and we're presenting a lot of
you will be full-time workers who know
what types of skill sets you are looking
for to complement your professional
environment I am a memo to help you with
in general if you're not to lever that
yourself as well as of course
facilitators who have experience as well
in these fields and I would also suggest
that if you're not sure follow up a
certificate program so we have
structured the certificate programs to
give you a good core of knowledge in the
area of that certificate
okay so
can I start taking Coursera courses now
or do I need to wait until October you
can take many of them now of the
non-degree / and then begin taking that
the for credit degree versions in
October but you won't be able to take a
credit version until the credit version
is launched so so far everything is
non-credit so thank you all for your
many questions
fortunately we weren't able to get to
all of them right now during the
presentation but we'll make a frequently
asked question list and send that out to
all of the participants at will as well
along with the recording of this
presentation so you'll be able to get
all of your questions answered and to be
able to review the presentation later
thank you everybody
have a great rest of your day bye bye
now
