{"id":3923,"date":"2020-06-22T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:28:45","slug":"student-experience-joining-free-edx-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/2020\/06\/22\/student-experience-joining-free-edx-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Experience: Joining Free EdX Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard of MOOC? It stands for <a href=\"https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/2019\/09\/22\/moocs-wur-free-online-courses\/\">Massive Open and Online Courses<\/a>. As Wageningen Students, we can get free access to several courses with different topics, from food technology to animal sciences. These courses are developed by Professors from Wageningen University &amp; Research and are based on the latest scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>To have a productive stay-at-home, I joined online courses. The reasons are because I am now in my second year and I do not do any courses anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I learned that WUR also offers certified edX online courses!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wageningen University and other top institutions joined forces to make each other\u2019s students and staff can access the online courses. Besides, we can get a certificate and access all contents in the courses.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of online courses being offered by top institutions, such as Delft, MIT, Harvard University, etc. There are also various themes and topics of online courses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>How to enrol to these courses?<\/h4>\n<p>What I did; Firstly, I register to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/\">edX<\/a> with my WUR Email and browse all the courses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3926 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course-1-e1592314928418-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course-1-e1592314928418-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course-1-e1592314928418-1024x517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course-1-e1592314928418-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course-1-e1592314928418.jpg 1364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">Several choices of courses at EdX website<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then, I read carefully about the course guide, the list of teachers, and make sure that I have sufficient background to do the courses.<\/p>\n<p>You also need to check the list of participating institution, so you can use the discount voucher from the University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3925 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course2-e1592314853785-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course2-e1592314853785-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course2-e1592314853785-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course2-e1592314853785-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weblog.wur.eu\/international-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/06\/EdX-course2-e1592314853785.jpg 1378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">More information you can find at WUR Website<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then, I enrol to the courses and I read the instructions from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wur.nl\/en\/Education-Programmes\/online-education\/Virtual-Exchange\/edX-remote-Access-Program.htm\">WUR website<\/a> about these offers. I sent an email to the University to ask for the voucher code to the course that I enrol.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>My experience!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>After one week enrolling for a course from edX and got the voucher code from the University, I realized that it is a bit of struggle for me to learn from the online platform in the stay-at-home situation. I need to focus on and regularly following the classes.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the voucher code from the University, I have a target to fulfil the course before the deadline and get the certificate of completion.<\/p>\n<p>My tips are: being discipline to yourself and set your target to achieve the completion certificate!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For further info, you can check the information from WUR! Good luck with the online course and have a great stay-at-home period!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard of MOOC? It stands for Massive Open and Online Courses. 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