Royal (Dick) School to run equine nutrition course
Dr Jo-Anne Murray
Online course to be free of chargeEdinburgh University has been announced as the first university in the UK to join the Coursera consortium - an organisation which will provide free online undergraduate-level courses to anyone who wishes to access them - and an Equine Nutrition course will be one of the courses on offer.
Taught by Dr Jo-Anne Murray of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, the course is designed to provide knowledge of equine digestion and nutrition, including studying the anatomy and physiology of the equine alimentary canal. The course is expected to be 5 weeks long.
To date, the Coursera group of universities have taught more than 650,000 students from 190 countries and there have been more than 1.5 million course enrolments across 43 courses.
Professor Sir Timothy O'Shea, Principal of The University of Edinburgh said: "Enabling wider access to excellent higher education is part of the core mission of the University of Edinburgh. We are therefore excited to join with our peers in North America in the Coursera consortium to offer Massive Open Online Courses on topics in which we have particular strengths."
For more information on the equine course, click here.
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