Coursera is the world's largest online learning platform. The first authors of the platform were professors from Stanford University. Coursera is a unique platform that unites more than 100 million students, allowing them to take courses from the best universities in the world and gain new knowledge. 

Advantages of COURSERA: 

  • Coursera contains about 12,000 courses prepared by 170 leading universities and 75 leading companies in the world, such as Stanford, Columbia, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Yale, IBM, Google.
  • In particular, about 100 courses are available in Kazakh and Russian, which cover programming and digitalization, mathematics, physics, marketing and other fields. It should be noted that the list of priority courses includes programs from leading universities in the USA, Europe and Asia.
  • The platform's materials are designed in the format of lectures, tests, homework, tests, exams. If the information is unclear, there is an opportunity to discuss the topic on a special forum where students and teachers communicate. Most of the material has been prepared in English. 

Opportunities: 

  • The student has in-demand skills necessary for work, a new field. 
  • No higher education or prior training is required. 
  • After successful completion of the training, receives a certificate.
  • Coursera education is provided through "non-formal education".
  • The curriculum of the student's final year allows you to calculate part of the credits for a certain discipline, if it corresponds to the discipline program. 

ACCESS TO THE PLATFORM: 

Today, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education has provided access to the international educational platform Coursera for students of 94 Kazakhstani universities. Any student (bachelor's, master's, doctoral student) can submit an application to their dean's office to obtain a license for the Soigsega platform. Later, the coordinators of this project will send an invitation to connect to the Soigsega platform to the personal email of the student who applied. You can start studying at any courses by mail and link. A student who has a license issued by the university can take courses on the Soigsega platform for free. Courses on the Soigsega platform can be studied from anywhere in the world on a computer, mobile phone or tablet connected to the Internet.

Zhubanov University is one of the first universities in the country to participate in the Coursera project. Since January 2023, students of Kazakhstani universities have started using the capabilities of the global online educational platform Coursera. In 2023, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan issued 4,500 licenses to students of our university. In just 3 months of 2023, 4,500 students of our university took courses in Kazakh, Russian, and English on this platform and received certificates. And in the summer season of 2024, 900 licenses of the Coursera platform were offered to university students. 1800 students have successfully completed elective courses. 

Contact us for more information: 
Department of Additional Education 
Address: 34 A. Moldagulova Avenue, Main building, office 1B 
Department specialist: Duizhanova Elmira Shambilbekovna 
eduizhanova@zhubanov.edu.kz, phone: 87053978296