Does anyone here know of an automated solution to get a faithful save of a whole course?
As I recall it coursera-dl doesn't capture quizzes and forum, for instance.
Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
It probably depends on what the product or service is, and how it's sold. Coursera already provides some courses for free, and even those attract some high maintenance types from what I've seen in the forums. Does providing a pay-what-you-want option increase the number of nasties or the degree of nastiness, for example, inviting legal risks? I don't really know. But I feel Coursera should atleast experiment and gath…
Leanpub co-founder here. We're really happy with our minimum price + suggested price strategy, and have no plans to change it. When coupled with our sliders which clearly show the (very high, 90% minus 50 cents) royalties that are earned by the author(s), and with our free update distribution, we get a lot of benefits for our authors, including: 1. When there is a low or a free minimum price, readers who otherwise co…
Encouraging.
Your page for Roger Peng's R Programming book also contains a link to Lulu for those who prefer print.
Does following that link bypass your system or are you collecting some kind of fee for that? I'm assuming Dr Peng gets a reasonable chunk of coffee money from Lulu directly as usual.
Cheers
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#113It 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…
Coursera is willing to have the same amount of money you're willing to keep. How are they greedier than you? Expecting a service without giving anything in return is the definition of "greedy".
You just don't get it. I can afford to pay for a MOOC and I would consider it, but there are millions of people who can't afford it.
Coursera's about page used to say this: "committed to making the best education in the world freely available to any person who seeks it".
Now they have removed every instance of the word "free" https://www.coursera.org/about/
Nothing wrong with being a for-profit company, but they went from optional paid certificates to deleting old MOOCs and making new ones exclusive for those willing to pay, every day their monetization tactics get more aggressive.
Also check this video from 3 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUO3Pk0nOCM
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#114So I spawned a virtual server and I am downloading some courses I wanted to take.
What a shame. Farewell, free learning.
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#115If I was a prof, I'd have every one of my lectures recorded and put online for free. I wish I had recorded the lectures I attended in college. Not recalling the lectures means the notes I took in class don't make much sense.
Heck, I record all of the presentations I do, and they get posted for free on the intarnets. I put a fair amount of work into them - why hide them?
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#116In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes.
Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry.
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1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean.
I am using the 40$/month in order to have 40GB of space, but my plan is to shut it down in a day or two.
The advantage is to have storage space AND super-fast connection.
If you don't want to spend money, here is my referral code:
https://m.do.co/c/867be540644c
This will give you 10$ credit for free.
2) Install screen, python-virtualenv, python3, python3-pip
3) edit ~/.bash_aliases:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
alias download="./coursera-dl -u > -p >"
alias download_preview="./coursera-dl -b -u > -p >"
name the virtualenv "coursera", and place it in the root home directory
5) patch to use python3:
* pip3 install -r requirements.txt * patch coursera/coursera.dl:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
Add this lines at the end of the file:
cd coursera
source bin/activate
cd coursera
The setup process is done. Here is how to use it:
1) Start a screen session: `screen -S coursera`
download_preview compilers-004
you can download more courses in parallel by creating another window (C-a c) and typing donwload_preview $coursename.
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#117I just got a somewhat confusing email canceling my enrollment in the ever elusive Cryptography II course. I guess this is what that's about. If so, it's too bad, I had a great experience in the Crypto I but it wouldn't have been nearly as good without the quizzes and assignments.
I've given up waiting for that now, will find another way.
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#118This is opportunity for free courses.
Freemium doesn't just entice customers; it also denies oxygen to competitors.
The specific difficulty for courses is reputation - but wikipedia has managed it, so it's possible.
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#119I'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…
Khan Academy started out with Youtube videos and grew into a web site with quizes and tests. I don’t know if you can call it a MOOC but it teaches subjects well enough. I guess they rely on donations, and advertising on Youtube?
According to Wikipedia it's a non-profit. I believe Google donated ad-free YouTube for the channel. Income is indeed donations.
"The project is funded by donations. Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,[8] now with significant backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Broad Foundation, Google, the O’Sullivan Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and other philanthropic organizations."
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#120https://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:cl…
I can't get to download the "C++ for C programmers" course via coursera-dl... anyone had some luck ?