Do online courses good on CV or they just trite and useless?

[Hobaboba]

Hi,

Do online courses as coursera and others offered by universities to be taken online good on cv or they became useless as many people take them? And some people just take them for lisence renewal?

[xypathos]

Unless you get academic credit for them, they're worth next to nothing (other than personal enrichment).

 

That said, why would you list individual courses (you've taken, I presume?) on your C.V.?

[DeleteMePlease]

I would only list them if you received some form of certification. For example I have a certificate for project management from the PMI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Institute ) that I might put on my CV.

[TakeruK]

For courses that are not part of a degree program, you should only list them if they provide a relevant certification (like what GermanStudent said). Many schools also offer online / distance-education versions of their regular courses which count for credit towards a degree program -- i.e. one might take 4 courses on campus and 1 course distance-ed/online. In this case, there's no point listing the individual course on your CV. 

[LastGradStanding]

Just list the individual skills of interest to the employer without saying where they came from.