FREE Columbia Financial Engineering Course

There's been a few blogs already about the trend in free online courses, but I came across this specific course today that was just added to Coursera taught by Columbia University. The course "Financial Engineering and Risk Management", will be taught by Martin Haugh and Garud Iyengar, with guest lectures by Emanuel Derman. It's a ten week course, starting in February 2013, and I'm considering it.

https://www.coursera.org/course/fe

Call me crazy, but sometimes I wish it would cost something, maybe not an arm or a leg. I've tried some of the courses, and because it was free and I didn't feel financially invested in it, I allowed myself to skip a few lessons. Not because it was bad or anything, just that I had other obligations i.e work, family, other paid studies etc. Also, wouldn't it look more favorably to employers instead of some random free online course? Agree?

I wanted to know if you would take it (I guess depends on your finance field), would it look favorably to employers, and why you would take it (genuine interest or to add to your resume)?

 

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