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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by rahimnathwani »

agumonkey wrote: post #108
draven wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was about to suggest coordinating a bit to make a torrent for each course and avoid generating too much trafic downloading them, but it seems to be prohibited by the ToS ("You may download content from our Services only for your personal, non-commercial use, unless you obtain Coursera's written permission to otherwise use the content".)

Maybe a shared spreadsheet ? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wUt5G0Kst8g5P0ftQqXk... ps: First time I create and share a google sheet, so far I added the 3 that asked, sorry for the delay.

You haven't made that spreadsheet public.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by jaypeedevlin »

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…

Disclosure, I work for Dataquest.io but prior to getting the job was a student and a massive fan.

I believe we offer an awesome alternative for learning DS with a 'learn by doing' approach.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by agumonkey »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #131
agumonkey wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe a shared spreadsheet ? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wUt5G0Kst8g5P0ftQqXk... ps: First time I create and share a google sheet, so far I added the 3 that asked, sorry for the delay.

You haven't made that spreadsheet public.

Ah right, I didn't see the global share option. Let's see how it fares.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

#135

Post by znpy »

znpy wrote: post #116

In 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. =========================== 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 w…

Tested and successfully downloaded (about 30GB):

- recsys-001

- hwswinterface-002

- eefun-001

- experiments-001

- gametheory-003

- crypto-010

- pgm

- cariesmanagement-003

- algo2-003

- analyze-003

- audio-002

- ml-005

- sna-2012-001-staging

- spatialcomputing-001

- organalysis-003

- compilers-004

- modelthinking-006

- ggp-003

- algo-009

- intrologic-005

- automata

- linearopt-002

- matrix-002

Please add below this comment other coursed that can be downloaded.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by pakitan »

quincyla wrote: post #67
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…

> If institutional partners treated MOOCs as a marketing exercise for their university's brand

Top universities already have plenty of brand recognition and get way more applicants than what they can accept. The monetary value of any additional marketing is probably very close to zero for them.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

#138

Post by smarx007 »

draven wrote: post #83
wibr wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I was about to suggest coordinating a bit to make a torrent for each course and avoid generating too much trafic downloading them, but it seems to be prohibited by the ToS ("You may download content from our Services only for your personal, non-commercial use, unless you obtain Coursera's written permission to otherwise use the content".)

Wise Russians downloaded most of them already:

http://imgur.com/rdPhclR http://imgur.com/MzQesnK http://imgur.com/9iN21V7

(from https://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?nm=Coursera)

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

#140

Post by akvar »

znpy wrote: post #135
znpy wrote: post #116

In 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. =========================== 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 w…

Tested and successfully downloaded (about 30GB): - recsys-001 - hwswinterface-002 - eefun-001 - experiments-001 - gametheory-003 - crypto-010 - pgm - cariesmanagement-003 - algo2-003 - analyze-003 - audio-002 - ml-005 - sna-2012-001-staging - spatialcomputing-001 - organalysis-003 - compilers-004 - modelthinking-006 - ggp-003 - algo-009 - intrologic-005 - automata - linearopt-002 - matrix-002 Please add below this co…

- neuralnets-2012-001

- scicomp-003

- mmds-002

- comparch-003

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