Finland offers free online Artificial Intelligence course to anyone, anywhere

May 17, 2018

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The University of Helsinki has offered a course in AI for the past few years. Due to increased interest in the subject, the institution collaborated with Reaktor to create an online course to meet the growing demand. The course, which went live this week, has no prerequisites, is free of charge and open to anyone around the world.

The coursework takes about 30 hours to complete and students in Finland can even earn two ECTS academic credits through the Open University. Thouse outside Finland who’ve successfully completed the course are able to receive a certificate to post on their LinkedIn page.

Source: yle.fi

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Finland offers free online Artificial Intelligence course to anyone, anywhere

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