{"id":41918,"date":"2013-10-03T14:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=41918"},"modified":"2013-09-28T11:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T15:59:47","slug":"moocs-on-your-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=41918","title":{"rendered":"MOOCs on Your Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Lisa Huntsha, Head Editor, INALJ Sweden<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

MOOCs on Your Resume<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"lisahuntsha\"<\/a>You\u2019ve heard of MOOCs, right? The acronym stands for Massive Open Online Courses. These are, as the name suggests, large online courses you can take for free, offered by some really great schools and professors. I\u2019m currently taking Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information <\/i>by Jeffrey Pomerantz of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, via Coursera<\/a>. This has been a welcome supplement to my formal education on the subject. However, the question I\u2019ve been toying with recently is: Should I add this to my resume?<\/p>\n

I want to add this course (and the others I will later take) to my resume since taking MOOCs show initiative, interest in continuing education, and the acquisition of specific skills. I do not, however, want to highlight them so much that it looks like I\u2019m trying to equate this supplemental coursework with my actual degree coursework (though, arguably, some of it can be at the same level). So, I turned to my favorite career and job-hunting advice blog, Ask a Manager<\/a> and found that this question\u00a0had been asked before<\/a>. You can read all the comments yourself, but the most helpful ones I found suggest:<\/p>\n