SEE's initial set of courses was funded by Sequoia Capital, 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 MIT OpenCourseWare, where some of the courses are available for viewing for the online students community at no charge.
The courses offered are from the fields of databases, artificial intelligence and computer programming.
In Fall 2011, the SEE program was expanded to offer full online courses in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Databases.