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Coursera: Make Work, School or Life more streamlined with the Introduction to Operations Course!
With MOOC platforms, students in the (virtual) global classroom are not just learners, but doers. The time between learning a new concept in the course and trying it out in practice has shrunk from weeks, months, or years to days. Last week, we told you about a Design Course which prompted students to apply their design skills to create something to improve their lives; today, we want to tell you about another Coursera Course which has taken this concept to practice: “An Introduction to Operations Management”, offered by Christian Terwiesch of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The course will go live for the second time on Monday (4/29/2013). In the first offering, the course attracted some 87,000 students, the strong contingent of them being active as business professionals and university students. They applied the knowledge from the course to operations related tasks at work, school and home. To capture that “From Knowledge to Action&rdq…