Academic publisher SAGE has announced a partnership with Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), to expand the availability of high-quality educational resources to more than three million Coursera students. The partnership will grant Coursera instructors the option to supplement their video lectures with rigorously-developed, pedagogical content from SAGE at no cost to their students. The partnership is enabled by Chegg, a student-connected learning platform that Coursera has selected as its exclusive DRM/eReader provider.
While it has been observed that access to quality pedagogical material plays a crucial role in the student-learning experience, Coursera professors were previously only able to use materials that were freely available online as resources for students. This new partnership with SAGE will provide Coursera students with access to high quality educational resources from leading authors, it is believed.
Through this partnership, SAGE will work closely with its authors to provide Coursera-registered students with free access to select textbook content requested by instructors for the duration of the 8-week long MOOC courses, delivered via Chegg's DRM-protected e-Reader. Coursera students will have the option to purchase print and digital copies of SAGE texts and premium resources.
