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Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. They envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Their technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students. Through this, they hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. They want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.

Back to School with 29 Courses Dear Coursarians, It’s been a wild month—launching 12 new university partners, kicking off Coursera Meetups with a massive BBQ, finishing our first peer-graded course (Human Computer Interaction) and announcing that over 1 million students have signed up to take courses. We also know that we are still very much in our early days. There is still so much that we want to do to improve our platform to make it an even better learning experience for you and still so many courses that we hope to offer. We are also excited to welcome you back to school in a big way with 29 classes starting between now and the end of September. From Gamification, to Statistics, to Modern Poetry, to Big Data, to Social Network Analysis and more! Grab a friend, find a local study group and learn with students from all of the world through the forums. Happy back to school! Andrew, Daphne and your Cousera Team | www.coursera.org follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | Google+ | visit our Blog Upcoming Courses Enroll by clicking here (or any of the below links). You can sign up for classes even if they haven’t started yet - you’ll get a reminder email when the course is about to start. Machine Learning Stanford University Andrew Ng, Associate Professor Aug 20th 2012 10 weeks long Introduction to Sustainability University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jonathan Tomkin Aug 27th 2012 8 weeks long Intelligence and Big Data IIT Delhi,IIIT Gautam Shroff Aug 27th 2012 10 weeks long Gamification University of Pennsylvania Kevin Werbach Aug 27th 2012 6 weeks long Cryptography Stanford University Dan Boneh, Professor Aug 27th 2012 6 weeks long Model Thinking University of Michigan Scott E. Page Sep 2012 10 weeks long Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics University of Washington Eric Zivot 2 Sep 2012 Social Network Analysis University of Michigan Lada Adamic Sep 2012 8 weeks long Networked Life University of Pennsylvania Michael Kearns Sep 2012 10 weeks long Securing Digital Democracy University of Michigan J. Alex Halderman 3 sep 2012 5 weeks Statistics One Princeton University Andrew Conway 3 Sep 2012 6 weeks Modern & Contemporary American Poetry University of Pennsylvania Al Filreis 10 Sep 2012 10 weeks Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes Princeton University Mung Chiang 17 Sep 2012 10 weeks A History of the World since 1300 Princeton University Jeremy Adelman 17 Sep 2012 12 weeks Introduction to Mathematical Thinking Stanford University Keith Devlin 17 Sep 2012 7 weeks Neural Networks for Machine Learning University of Toronto Geoffrey Hinton 17 Sep 2012 8 weeks Functional Programming Principles in Scala École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Martin Odersky 18 Sep 2012 7 weeks Human-Computer Interaction Stanford University Scott Klemmer, Associate Professor 24 Sep 2012 5 weeks An Introduction to Operations Management University of Pennsylvania Christian Terwiesch 24 Sep 2012 6 weeks Learn to Program: The Fundamentals University of Toronto Jennifer Campbell, Paul Gries 24 Sep 2012 7 weeks Computer Vision: From 3D Reconstruction to Visual Recognition Stanford University Silvio Savarese, Assistant Professor Fei-Fei Li, Assistant Professor Sep 24, 2012 Greek and Roman Mythology University of Pennsylvania Peter Struck Sep 24, 2012 10 weeks Computing for Data Analysis Johns Hopkins University Roger D. Peng 24 Sep 2012 4 weeks Heterogeneous Parallel Programming University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wen-mei W. Hwu 24 Sep 2012 6 weeks Organizational Analysis Stanford University Daniel A. McFarland 24 Sep 2012 Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp Johns Hopkins University Brian Caffo 24 Sep 2012 7 weeks Introduction to Logic Stanford University Michael Genesereth, Associate Professor 24 Sep 2012 7 weeks Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach Duke University Roger Coke Barr 24 Sep 2012 8 weeks Probabilistic Graphical Models Stanford University Daphne Koller, Professor 24 Sep 2012 11 weeks