Coursera

[RoboDesigners]

Hey everyone–just poking my head back on these forums to share something I recently found.

Website: https://www.coursera.org/

About:

We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.

Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.

I thought this would be of interest to some people here, as the Computer Science classes appear to be somewhat beyond the basic procedural course (i.e. Cryptography, Algorithms, Machine Vision, AI, Quantum Computation (!?!), and others).

I’m planning on taking the Algorithms 1 course that starts sometime in August.

Has anyone here heard of or taken a class from this site before?

//Andrew

[MarkO]

I signed up for the Algorithms and Cryptography, but ran out of time to actually follow through with the Course work…

They look real interesting, and I would think they should be a benefit to anyone’s skill level…

[JohnWatson]

I have not taken any of these course (yet) but will be signing up for some now. To supplement this, MIT also offers free online ‘archived’ versions of their courses through their OpenCourseWare program:

MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials

I’m going to stop talking now before I go on a (good) rant about how awesome I think free online courses are.