MOOCs certification: Coursera Announces Details for Selling Certificates & Verifying IDs + MOOCs debate | Create, Innovate & Evaluate in Higher Education | Scoop.it

The company, Coursera, plans to announce on Wednesday the start of a pilot project to check the identities of its students and offer “verified certificates” of completion, for a fee. A key part of that validation process will involve what Coursera officials call “keystroke biometrics”—analyzing each user’s pattern and rhythm of typing to serve as a kind of fingerprint.