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Coursera: My Coursera Experience: Empowering Local Communities through MOOC
Editor’s note: Sharon Watkins is a Coursera student who runs an Ohio-based Non-Profit “The Learning Cafe”. She’s empowering her local community by encouraging people to take courses together & improve their careers. The Learning Cafe (TLC) is an evening hours community ‘learning environment’ housed in our public high school located in a high poverty community. The purpose of our program is to raise community engagement in education by providing fresh enrichment and advancement learning opportunities.We do what many community schools do: offer a dinner, transportation, access to social services and childcare along with a wide range of classes. We want to entice reluctant learners back to school while we challenge our seasoned students with new learning choices as well. My husband brought MOOC’s and Coursera to my attention last fall. We host TED Talk discussion groups at TLC and so I watched Daphne Koller’s talk on Coursera. T…