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The ML course has quite some time ago been made available as an untimed "always-on" course at https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
Are the quizzes etc free still? My impression from the post was that the new site has stripped access to the exercises unless you pay up.
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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…
I'm a bit confused about which courses will be removed and which ones will stay. Is there a list of courses that are present on the old platform but not on the new platform? Also, I don't know where I'd access the old platform and where I'd access the new platform. Am I right in thinking this is a course on the new platform?
https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
If so, where do I go to see the old platform?
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It doesn't make it fairer - studies have shown that overwhelmingly those already privileged take online courses (no, individual examples to the contrary don't count - this is about numbers, statistics, not the edges of the distribution). Especially for the better courses you should really already have had quite an education. And you need time and fast Internet access. But it certainly makes it more accessible! Myself…
>studies have shown that overwhelmingly those already privileged take online courses Why does the percentage matter? If 100 million people take MOOCs, and only 1% of them are poor and actually need them, then they still helped a million people! That's nothing to sneer at. Second, what is your source, because I'm skeptical of that. And just because someone is "privileged" doesn't necessarily mean the courses have no v…
[1] https://www.edx.org/about-us
Wow. Really? Do I want to even read what this is about? Fine.
"Of late we have seen MOOC providers caring less about the students and more about the $$$".
Oh boy, here comes the assault on reason.
"they should stop the game of telling people that they care for students and are here to “provides universal access to the world’s best education”."
Yeah, that's enough for me. Tarun Vangani needs a reality check.
Coursera has brought much good to the world. It has to provide good to the world in an economically sustainable way.
It would be great if the Macarthur Foundation gave its $100 Million grant to Coursera so that it could continue to focus on its mission. Hopefully, Coursera qualifies and applies for it.
The author of this blog post has taken to a soap box to shout out, "The Golden Age of MOOCs is over" and that he hates Coursera. Wow. Really? Do I want to even read what this is about? Fine. "Of late we have seen MOOC providers caring less about the students and more about the $$$". Oh boy, here comes the assault on reason. "they should stop the game of telling people that they care for students and are here to “prov…
I hope edx does not follow coursera way.
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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 ?
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I don't have any problems. I used the standard options with `coursera-dl`. It's all been downloaded without a hitch now. cd /D/Videos/Courses/ ./coursera-dl/coursera-dl -u > -p > compilers-004
With 'compilers' only there's an issue in the video URLs, thanks for the suffix tip. ps: 004 didn't work, only 003 pps: tested these: - progfun1 - proglang-002 almost worked.
proglang-002 didn't even begin downloading.