A MOOC Point
“There is no dearth of knowledge on the internet, its only the desire to learn that is lacking.”
MOOCs(Massive Online Open Courses) are all the rage these days.
Every major university has put almost all of its course content online. In a world where social distancing will become a norm, online education is all set to boom.
Professor ‘Gautam Kaul’ had made an online course almost 5 years ago on the site ‘Coursera.org’ titled “Intro to Finance”. He is a professor of Finance at the Ross School of Business, Michigan University.
We took that course a few years ago and the lessons we learned from it will help us understand our personal finance better for the rest of our lives.
Professor Kaul’s teaching style, as well as the course content are ideally suited for any lay person to get a good understanding of the finance world.
It really puts into perspective the financial decisions we have to take in our day to day lives. Trade-offs such as Renting vs Buying a home. Taking a loan vs fronting up the capital.
Most of all, I loved the part about valuations, where we learn to put a value on projects that last over a long period of time, be it personal projects such as this blog, or publicly listed companies on stock exchanges. We learn valuations both financially as well as philosophically.
This is a good time and the perfect course to set out on your journey of personal finance. The course has been modified into a full blown “specialization” broken up into 4 courses. But the content and the teaching still hold the same value.
And its Free!
Kick-off your journey into personal finance, understand the basics of compounding, of time value of money, of valuations and risk assessment.
Check it out —
Foundational Finance for Strategic Decision Making | Coursera
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