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Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by danso »

LouisSayers wrote: post #20

If anyone else is wondering, MOOC is Massive Open Online Courses. It really gets on my nerves when people don't expand their acronyms when introducing a topic. Of course there are exceptions, but is MOOC really that common an acronym?! I just find it a bit inconsiderate.

It's a pretty common acronym for those of us in education, of course. But it is also known among the startup/hacker crowd because of the well-funded startups in the space.

Also, it's beginning to be big in public policy. A couple of years ago, the California state senate was debating a bill to allow students to use MOOC courses for actual state college credit. That bill has since been shelved: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/01/controversial...

In defense of the submitter, expanding the acronym may have pushed the title over the character limit.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by plinkplonk »

I always wanted to work through the algorithms MOOCs from Princeton but I kept putting it off. Profs Sedgewick and Wayne are phenomenal teachers. Anyone know if this course will be available in the future?

(probably not, since they had no certificates etc, and I don't see them going along with paid-for-quizzes courses, but it doesn't hurt to ask)

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by flamedoge »

BoysenberryPi wrote: post #13
_xhok wrote: post #10

I'll probably get shot down for being that typical negative HN comment, but do MOOCs like Coursera actually do much in the way of making education more accessible or society fairer? All the content offered on Coursera already exists on the internet. Really motivated people will aggressively look for study materials, and they generally don't have a problem finding it. It seems to me that it's actually the internet tha…

As someone has taken a lot of MOOCs, I have no idea if Coursera makes education more accessible but they certainly make certain teachers and professors more accessible and those professors have a lot of knowledge to offer. A lot of universities don't have open courseware and even if they do the recordings are beyond terrible.

I can personally vouch for this having taken Algorithmic Thinking course by Rice Univ.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by riffraff »

sreeramvenkat wrote: post #25

I hope edx does not follow coursera way.

I believe they did in a way, certificates are now available only if you pay, rather than for anyone taking the class. That doesn't bother me but it's the first step coursera took before ending up where it is now.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by wtf_is_frp »

plinkplonk wrote: post #43

I always wanted to work through the algorithms MOOCs from Princeton but I kept putting it off. Profs Sedgewick and Wayne are phenomenal teachers. Anyone know if this course will be available in the future? (probably not, since they had no certificates etc, and I don't see them going along with paid-for-quizzes courses, but it doesn't hurt to ask)

They are available, I have doubts about OP's post.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by 9erdelta »

wonkaWonka wrote: post #40
sotojuan wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even worse, his comment assumes you can't improve your enjoyment of life just by learning about things you like.

After a while, this never ending river of UTF-8 characters and RGB pixels gets a little old. You realize all the time you've spent whiling away so much time, imagining that it's all building up to something even better than yesterday's tide of serialized data streams, that your youth has faded, and you're still just staring at a lightbulb masked behind a screen of wires, listening to air disturbed by oscillating magn…

You're a cheery fella! Maybe have suicide watch on speed dial eh?

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by dhawalhs »

plinkplonk wrote: post #43

I always wanted to work through the algorithms MOOCs from Princeton but I kept putting it off. Profs Sedgewick and Wayne are phenomenal teachers. Anyone know if this course will be available in the future? (probably not, since they had no certificates etc, and I don't see them going along with paid-for-quizzes courses, but it doesn't hurt to ask)

They are currently on the old platform. Officially the old platform shuts down on June 30th.

Maybe they will be moved to the new platform. A lot of courses on the old platform have moved to the new platform over the past year.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by akg_67 »

lovelearning wrote: post #31

I feel Coursera's pricing strategy is located at two opposite extremes and misses out an entire range of options in the middle. They either make an entire course completely free with no option to pay even if the student wants to, or they put it behind a paywall where one can't even start without paying. They along with their institutional partners are missing out revenue from people like me who'd like to pay some amo…

Are there any successful ventures with such "pay-what-you-like" pricing strategy?

Having unsuccessfully tried such a pricing model myself, I have serious doubt about it's viability. Majority will not pay anything, very few will pay reasonable amount, and some will pay very little but will be very high maintenance.

Payer: God dammit, I paid for your service and I want one hour of your support time. Company: How much did this payer paid? 50 cents! We need to hire someone who will take 30 cents to support this payer for an hour.

This is one of those pricing strategy that sounds good and people will claim to support but in reality wouldn't.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by aaggarwal »

akg_67 wrote: post #49
lovelearning wrote: post #31

I feel Coursera's pricing strategy is located at two opposite extremes and misses out an entire range of options in the middle. They either make an entire course completely free with no option to pay even if the student wants to, or they put it behind a paywall where one can't even start without paying. They along with their institutional partners are missing out revenue from people like me who'd like to pay some amo…

Are there any successful ventures with such "pay-what-you-like" pricing strategy? Having unsuccessfully tried such a pricing model myself, I have serious doubt about it's viability. Majority will not pay anything, very few will pay reasonable amount, and some will pay very little but will be very high maintenance. Payer: God dammit, I paid for your service and I want one hour of your support time. Company: How much d…

As far as I remember, edX used to follow this 'pay-what-you-like' strategy for honor-code certificate, along with fixed pricing for verified certificate.
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