They do.
Financial Engineering and risk management by Columbia Unversity. They have parts 1 and 2. I don’t know how indepth they are. Description says using “simple stochastic models to price derivative securities”.
https://www.coursera.org/course/fe1
https://www.coursera.org/course/fe2
Also more “advanced math” if you’re interested
Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance – Washington
https://www.coursera.org/course/mathematicalmethods
Asset pricing – Chicago
Hmm, very intersting. May sign up.
The paid certificates kind of guarantee that you took the exams yourself. They make you take a picture and type something so you’ll be recognized. In practice, it means cheaters will have to at least be there to cheat. Prospect employers probably won’t care about this, or about Coursera in general.
I’ve seen some classes. Some are just stripped down versions of ITunesU and university courses while some are very well designed. The basic format is watch lecture, take a quiz, rinse and repeat every week, but there’s latitude for specific courses to do work evaluated by peers and lots of stuff.
It’s quick, free, easy to browse and to watch a few lectures just for the sake of it. I think it’s very worthy of a look, for the possible learning experiences. Maybe useless as a resume building tool for finance professionals though.
Since I saw my old thread brought up, let me answer some recent questions:
If the course is already live, the lectures are housed on the website. You can catch back up, but may not be able to get a certificate.
Certificates show you completed the course. In my situation, I view them as worthless. I’m more after the knowledge and not a piece of paper. But it means you took the tests, HW, etc and did well.
I’ve done a few Coursera courses. My favorite so far has been Model Thinking. I completed half the class last year but work got busy. I signed up again this year to finish the second half. Each lecture is independent of each other, as they cover a seperate model type. It is good to get exposed to relevant models and also teaches you different frameworks for systematic thought. Again, this is the BChad standard.
The courses range in difficulty. Some, like data analysis, are part of a series where doing the first is a pre-requsite for the second. Some start learning R first, then go into using R next. Just read the description of each course to see if you have the knowledge or if there is a prior course.
Coursera is now in the monetization phase. This is why you are seeing premium offerings, as they can’t just be freemium only and continue to do everything.
EDX is good too, but last i checked Coursera had more topics relevant to what my interests are (Finance, Economics, Psychology)
thanks for the notes