Stanford Engineering Everywhere, or SEE is an initiative started by

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at Stanford University to offer a number of Stanford courses free online. SEE's initial set of courses was funded by

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, and offered instructional videos, reading lists and assignments. The portal was designed to assist both the students and teachers across the world. This is similar to initiatives like

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, where some of the courses are available for viewing for the online students community at no charge.

Project

SEE initially offered ten courses from the

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, including three course introductory sequence from

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. The courses offered are from the fields of

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