Coursera vs. SAI360

The Coursera platform can be a useful part of your overall learning content portfolio if utilized correctly. It's fantastic for asynchronous courses that don't necessarily need a dedicated faculty member (though I'd highly recommend at least having some discussion moderators/student workers) and for offering MOOCs. The ability for the learners to contribute translations really makes it ideal for the international learning community - I am always amazed to see a course we launched with 2-3 languages to quickly have 10-12 more added. This feature really helps expand the audience reach and Coursera has such a large following already that it can grow seemingly overnight.

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The usage of ROAM, as well as the integration of external programmes through API and import functions, has almost reduced duplication of work. One thing to keep in mind is that your use cases must be very clear. There are a lot of SAI solutions, and their titles don't always correspond to what they actually perform.

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• Interaction: the student learns by doing. For programming courses, this means programming!
• Assessments: the courses I'd taken ask students to grade each others work with a rubric. This is hugely effective and permits tests and quizzes to be other than multiple choice.
• Creativity and enthusiasm of the instructors. Some of the approaches demonstrated real out-of-the-box thinking by the instructors. For example, the Rice Python course was a self-contained website requiring no installation of IDE on one's computer, and the final project was a working version of Asteroids.
• Low cost of entry: most of the course I enrolled in were free, with an optional fee for certifications. This really gives people the freedom to explore learning. It's almost like a Public Library of Learning.
• Coursera forces a weekly discipline on the user with lectures and assignments and this really motivates one to put in the effort.

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• Customized unified design platform
• Modules that fit your organization
• Low technology involvement with information department.
• Built on foundational platforms some bidirectional in the ERM framework with TPRM contracts
• Single sign-on web-based applications

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• Some of the courses (very few) have some old information (more than 2 years), and in some areas like technology the information has to be very new and updated.
• Some professors or people doing videos are not good in front of the camera, they should train their people a little bit more for those things.

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• Integration with SAP for continuous control monitoring.
• Control mapping to standards: ISO; COSO; COBIT; HIPAA; SP800_53 (NIST); FedRAMP; PCI_DSS; BITS; GAAP; AICPA; BSI; CCM; COPPA; CSA
• Surveys.

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Constantly renewing already. One of my favourite MOOC platforms.

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BWIse is very flexible, and an affordable GRC tool.

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User-friendly and developer-friendly Web UI.

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Overall it is a very versatile system that does help to keep our processes automated and secure. We are able to streamline our day to day activities.

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I’ve used it a couple of times and... that did great. They take their time, but in the end they solve your issues.

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BWise support is knowledgeable and responsive. Bug fixes and development are also timely and ongoing.

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Coursera is familiar, intuitive, compatible and easy to use and implement.

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The main issues were managing the internal conflicts and competing objectives, rather than the capability and implementation of BWise itself.

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I think Coursera has the best overall interface. I think you will find that different platforms go in different directions, and have different specialities. For the most part the differences are more in the types of courses they offer than one being particularly better than the other, so it comes down to content for me.

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Wasn't personally involved in the vendor selection process. I am aware that one of the main drivers for selecting BWise was cost (I believe BWise total project cost was several times lower than MetricStream's).

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• The greatest benefit of Coursera is access to quality courses on various subjects that you can either browse or dive in deeply. Customizable, flexible and accessible.
• Helps our department to recommend trainees courses on this website and gain important knowledge. Also, the courses are provided by big-name universities which helps students in their careers
• Developing and exploring professional skills.

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• Pre-built training courses for certification that have a higher ROI than building your own courses.
• Helped customers training their personnel to achieve multiple management system certifications.

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