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Tentativo di vedere quali dei corsi Coursera che offrono soltanto la certificazione "Signature Track" a pagamento sono e non sono disponibili per la traduzione nella Global Translator Community di Coursera 14 signature-track-only couses not on GTC: - New World, New Map: GPS for Today's Music Industry https://www.coursera.org/course/gpsmusic . West Virginia University - Re-Enchanting the City - Designing the Human Habitat https://www.coursera.org/course/city . UNSW Australia - Pre-Calculus https://www.coursera.org/course/precalculus . University of California, Irvine - The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art https://www.coursera.org/course/south . The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Foundations of Virtual Instruction https://www.coursera.org/course/virtualinstruction . University of California, Irvine - Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination https://www.coursera.org/course/forensicaccounting . West Virginia University and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners - What's Your Big Idea? https://www.coursera.org/course/bigidea . The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - The Magna Carta and its Legacy https://www.coursera.org/course/magnacarta . University of London - Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy https://w

8 signature-track-only courses on GTC: - The Art of Teaching History https://www.coursera.org/course/teachinghist . Rice University - What a Plant Knows (and other things you didn't know about plants) https://www.coursera.org/course/plantknows . - The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem https://www.coursera.org/course/jerusalem . Tel Aviv University - The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World https://www.coursera.org/course/ucimacroeconomics . University of California, Irvine - Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects https://www.coursera.org/course/learning . University of California, San Diego - Learning to Teach Online https://www.coursera.org/course/ltto . UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales) - Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship https://www.coursera.org/course/innovativeideas . University of Maryland, College Park - The Emergence of the Modern Middle East | Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/modernmiddleeast . Tel Aviv University

January 9, 2013 by Jeffrey R. Young "...Setting the Price The company also revealed more details about how it would award certificates and how much it would charge for them. Students who want a verified certificate will have to decide early in the course and pay upfront. Paying that fee will put students on what the company is calling the "Signature Track." The company and colleges are still struggling to decide what to charge for the certificates, though in its latest announcement Coursera said the price would run $30 to $100. "It's a huge decision: You're essentially setting a market," said Daphne Koller, a co-founder of Coursera, in an interview this week with The Chronicle. "No one has ever priced this before." Officials also stressed that they would offer financial aid to students who demonstrated that they could not afford the fees but could benefit from the verified certificates. Ms. Koller said Coursera would continue to offer free unofficial certificates to students who passed some of its courses. So why would someone pay for the verified certificates? Peter Lange, provost at Duke University, which plans to offer one of the courses in the new pilot, said each free certificate would have a clear disclaimer on it: "It says something to the effect of, We cannot vouch that the person who got this document took the course or did the work." The new Signature Track could mean serious revenue for Coursera, and for the 33 partner colleges that will get a cut of it. Exactly how the colleges will divide that revenue is still being worked out, it seems. Mr. Lange said the question was on the agenda at the next monthly meeting of Duke's Advisory Committee on Online Education." So, when Coursera staff offered free Statements of Accomplishment as "Recognition" to the volunteers of the Global Translator community, they did so in full awareness of their lack of value and of the mentioned disclaimer

"If there is no signed written agreement, then the work isn't for hire, and you start out with all the rights. If there is a written agreement, it should be entered into before you create the work. Beware of after-the-fact attempts to take away your rights by calling the work "for hire," for example by sending you a check whose endorsement line says that your signature is your agreement that the work was for hire."

Cf. https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/translations%2FCoursera%20Translator%20TOS.pdf , l'accordo imposto da Coursera ai volontari che traducono i sottotitoli dei video di lezioni.