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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by golergka »

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…

Humble Bundle. Their pricing idea is great and can be applicable to a lot of different businesses.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by orionblastar »

wodenokoto wrote: post #119
orionblastar wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

Thank you, I learned that it is a non-profit now and had donations go to keep them going.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by ikeboy »

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…

Can someone get the archive team on this?

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by mziel »

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…

hetero-004

algs4partI-010

algs4partII-007

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by raldu »

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…

So why not share all the downloaded content through a p2p torrent network, rather than to keep them in our own servers to ourselves, so that everyone else benefits?

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by mohsinr »

haakon wrote: post #100
linux_devil wrote: post #63

There is no point of calling them MOOC , if they are not 'O'pen anymore.

And since it's not 'O'pen, it's most likely much less 'M'assive. Now it's more like a traditional distance learning offering. Nothing wrong with being that, but I wish we could also have MOOCs.

Great point! So MOOCs have become now OCs (Online Courses), Massive & Open stays honor badge of Open Source Software :)

Educators tried to use "OPEN" word from OPEN Source World, but could not keep it that way... Coursera and Udacity guys should stop using OPEN word please...

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by mkl »

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…

How are you finding out the course names?

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by acjohnson55 »

pakitan wrote: post #136
quincyla wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't buy that reasoning. If that were true, they'd cease doing anything for marketing purposes. In reality, a brand and a reputation of educational leadership is something that requires continuous investment.

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Post by rahiel »

mkl wrote: post #148
znpy wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

How are you finding out the course names?

It's part of the course URL when you're enrolled at the course home, e.g:

  https://class.coursera.org/algs4partI-010 -> algs4partI-010
  https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/home/welcome -> machine-learning
(see https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/wiki)
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