Obtaining a Certificate and Payment for MOOC — Massive Open Online Courses

The specialists of ASR Service have developed a comprehensive program for partner training, which includes Business Pack: Start, Business, Premium, Gold, as well as promotion programs Genesis I–IV. The programs are continuously improved and additionally include offers from corporate Partners of national scale.

The mechanism for obtaining a certificate of completion of both free and paid Coursera courses is the payment and transfer to the ASR Service partner of a document confirming successful completion of a MOOC — massive open online course (massive open online courses, MOOC).

In obtaining which three factors play an important role:

• a good product and a symbolic price for the document for the service provided;
• secondly, it is always pleasant to see the material embodiment of one’s efforts, and sometimes to show it to others — certificates are issued only after successful completion of all test assignments and passing the final exam, which requires certain effort and time expenditure;
• thirdly, such certificates are increasingly valued by employers as proof that the applicant can perform a particular job.

A classic example of such a model is the Coursera project, founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. The resource provides free access to 840 MOOC courses on various topics (marketing, business, art, management, exact sciences) from 114 institutions worldwide. After completing the course, subject to successful passing of intermediate assignments and the final exam via webcam, the student of a particular course is issued a certificate of completion, for which a fee of $40–$90 must be paid. The popularity of Coursera is rapidly growing; in September 2016, the number of users of the resource exceeded 23 million people.

ASR Service additionally included in the Business Pack cost for the Partner the fulfillment of the following obligations:

• Training and ASR Service — Coursera certificate;
• Provision and payment of one Coursera course;

To obtain a certificate and payment for the selected course, fulfill the conditions for connecting partners according to the ASR Service compensation plan “Fireball – 7”:

• Upon connecting at least five personally invited Partners — 50%;
• Upon connecting at least seven personally invited Partners — 70%;
• Upon connecting at least ten personally invited Partners — 100%.

To complete the course, it is necessary:

• go to the Coursera website — https://ru.coursera.org;
• choose the course you need;
• copy the link to this course;
• fill out the application form.