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The Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and the Registrar attended the Coursera Partners Conference

March 28, 2016
The Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Julio Fernández, and the Academic Secretary of the School of Technology in the Faculty of Engineering, Víctor Paulós, attended the Coursera Partners Conference, which took place from March 20 to 22, 2016, in The Hague. The event was organized by Leiden University and co-organized by the University of Geneva.

Coursera is the world's largest online course platform, with over 18 million students, 1,800 courses, and 140 partner institutions.

March 9 marked the one-year anniversary of the launch on Coursera of the free online course in Spanish and English, titled ¡A Programar! and ¡Code yourself! respectively , developed jointly by the University of Edinburgh and Universidad ORT Uruguay. To date, more than 135,000 students from 197 countries have registered for both versions.