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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by aaggarwal »

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…

I had been using such platforms (coursera, edX) since their inception, and they were delightfully helpful to me. They were free of cost at that time and I really appreciated that as a student.

I feel a more apt pricing strategy would be to provide free/low-cost yearly access to students and a free basic course + paid advanced courses to non-students.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by justinhj »

pedalpete wrote: post #28
_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…

Some people learn by being taught, some people learn by doing. MOOCs cater to the first. I know this, because I am in the second (you may be too). I'll dig around looking for the information because I am using it right at that moment and NEED to understand it. I did a Coursera Machine Learning course, my first University level class after being out of school since the early 90s. I learned how about matrices (had very…

Personally I think both needs are met by moocs. If you want to be taught watch the lectures. If you want a more practical self directed approach do the exercises. Most people will do both

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by [deleted] »

wtf_is_frp wrote: post #46
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.

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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by fullshark »

_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…

I've found courses valuable but depends on the instructer and my own level of motivation.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by wibr »

https://class.coursera.org/ml-005/lecture Machine Learning, Andrew Ng

https://class.coursera.org/algo-003/lecture Algorithms 1, Tim Roughgarden

https://class.coursera.org/algo2-003/lecture Algorithms 2, Tim Roughgarden

Edit: https://class.coursera.org/compilers/lecture/preview Compilers, Alex Aiken

What else?

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by quincyla »

latenightcoding wrote: post #55

It is truly sad to see Coursera getting greedier by the day. I can honestly say this website changed my life, I was living in a third world country and still in high school when I enrolled in Andrew Ng's machine learning class and thanks to that MOOC I was able to get a machine learning job building recommender systems for a Canadian company straight out of high school. There are plenty of amazing MOOCs that Coursera…

If institutional partners treated MOOCs as a marketing exercise for their university's brand, instead of trying to monetize courses and certificates, people could continue to have this content for free. Unfortunately, universities don't exactly exemplify long-term thinking.

Most of the content for these MOOCs is created by professors as part of their jobs, so this content is owned by their universities. I bet a vast majority of professors would prefer their MOOCs to stay open.

Most of the work has been done already, and the quizzes and exercises are automated, so there's no practical reason these videos couldn't be hosted on YouTube and thrown into an open source MOOC framework like EdX's and continue to serve millions for a few hundred a month in server costs. Except that Coursera is explicitly forbidding non-private use of these courses.

For what it's worth, Free Code Camp gets about 1/8 of the traffic Coursera does, and our (non-opportunity) costs are pretty minor. I don't think hosting these MOOCs would add much to the burden.

If only the individual professors who created these MOOCs could give us permission to host these courses. But there's no way we're going to get anywhere with the university bureaucracies themselves.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by saganus »

wibr wrote: post #66

https://class.coursera.org/ml-005/lecture Machine Learning, Andrew Ng https://class.coursera.org/algo-003/lecture Algorithms 1, Tim Roughgarden https://class.coursera.org/algo2-003/lecture Algorithms 2, Tim Roughgarden Edit: https://class.coursera.org/compilers/lecture/preview Compilers, Alex Aiken What else?

I also found

https://class.coursera.org/crypto-010/lecture

and

https://class.coursera.org/crypto-preview/lecture

but I think the first one is newer.

There's also

https://class.coursera.org/ml-003/lecture

So I guess yours is newer.

Found as well:

https://class.coursera.org/automata/lecture

https://class.coursera.org/hci/lecture

https://class.coursera.org/pgm/lecture

And others. I just did a Google site search:

site:class.coursera.org

And click around. Some are not available though.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by reachtarunhere »

wibr wrote: post #66

https://class.coursera.org/ml-005/lecture Machine Learning, Andrew Ng https://class.coursera.org/algo-003/lecture Algorithms 1, Tim Roughgarden https://class.coursera.org/algo2-003/lecture Algorithms 2, Tim Roughgarden Edit: https://class.coursera.org/compilers/lecture/preview Compilers, Alex Aiken What else?

They will be removed on 30th June. I guess I should have made that clear in my post.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by wibr »

reachtarunhere wrote: post #69
wibr wrote: post #66

https://class.coursera.org/ml-005/lecture Machine Learning, Andrew Ng https://class.coursera.org/algo-003/lecture Algorithms 1, Tim Roughgarden https://class.coursera.org/algo2-003/lecture Algorithms 2, Tim Roughgarden Edit: https://class.coursera.org/compilers/lecture/preview Compilers, Alex Aiken What else?

They will be removed on 30th June. I guess I should have made that clear in my post.

That's why I posted them, so that people can download them before end of this month.
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