Darden Expands Online Educational Experience with MOOCs
By Anelle Mensah
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business offers a variety of massive open online courses (MOOCs) on subjects such as leadership, management and business strategy. These self-study online courses are taught by Darden faculty on online platforms, like Coursera through which online learners have access to a world-class educational experience anywhere in the world.
Darden’s Center for Global Initiatives recently wrote on its Global Voices of Darden blog about the impact Darden MOOCs are making for learners around the world, including reflections from some of the online course graduates:
Design Thinking for Innovation, instructed by Professor Jeanne Liedtka
“The instructor was very articulate in her presentation and the teaching was smooth flowing and well connected among the modules of study. Among the various schools of thought I have learnt in thinking, I find Design Thinking very refreshing, practical and coherent in its structure of understanding and application. I just love the course – very easy to follow and inspiring indeed!
Many thanks to instructor Jeanne — you are a superb presenter!!!!!” — learner from Singapore
Marketing Analytics, instructed by Professor Raj Venkatesan
“Dear Professor Venkatesan,
I am Thu from Vietnam. I am currently a student from Aalto University in Finland. I want to say thank you to you about the awesome Marketing Analytics course you teach here on Coursera. It is very informative and engaging. I took this course originally because I love marketing, and I don’t have course in Marketing Analytics in my university. That’s why I took this course, and I never regret it. Your course gives me more motivation to delve deeper in the area of Marketing Analytics.
It is also fun learning all the materials with you. Now whenever I want to revise some milestones in Marketing Analytics, I open your online course and skim through it again. It is very useful.
Thank you for making this course happen!” — learner from Finland
Read the full blog on Global Voices of Darden.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences. Darden’s graduate degree programs (MBA, MSBA and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area and a global community that includes 18,000 alumni in 90 countries. Darden was established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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