They should implement per region pricing depending on GDP PPP or similar. Paying for a course means commitment; while it's no big deal for me to shelve $50-100 on their course, it's a big deal for Eastern Europe, Africa, majority of Asia etc. If they adjusted prices to locally reasonable levels, they could increase both profit and completion rate.
Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#212In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes. Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry. =========================== 1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean. I am using the 40$/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…
If anyone wants these steps fully automated you can use this script: https://gist.github.com/bburky/40317e6375b1262b1a1fc31072acf... Just use it as a User Data file on DigitalOcean or elsewhere. Edit: After doing this, I realized coursera-dl has a Docker script already. You may prefer it: https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/tree/master/deplo...
A complete list of the courses cited so far in this thread can be obtained via this shell one-liner:
curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11881767" | grep -Po "[a-zA-Z0-9-]*-0\d{2}" | sort | uniq
curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11881767" | grep -Po "[a-zA-Z0-9-]*-0\d{2}" | sort | uniq | awk '{print "# " $0}'
Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 This amazes me. Are you leaving out more significant details? I cannot begin to imagine this happening where I live, in London. Being hired based on a MOOC? Did you go on to do some impressive projects which got you the job?
I had a couple of cool personal projects, but what really impressed them was that I sent them a minimum viable product of what they were trying to build. It was a music company so I put my hacky Perl skills to work and crawled youtube, songkick, musicbrainz and made a small music discovery website with cool features such as predicting the popularity of an artist based on social media metrics. I was like "I can do tha…
So, even better than showing a degree issued from a prestigious and expensive school is to show your previous work.
Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
If anyone wants these steps fully automated you can use this script: https://gist.github.com/bburky/40317e6375b1262b1a1fc31072acf... Just use it as a User Data file on DigitalOcean or elsewhere. Edit: After doing this, I realized coursera-dl has a Docker script already. You may prefer it: https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/tree/master/deplo...
A complete list of the courses cited so far in this thread can be obtained via this shell one-liner: curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11881767" | grep -Po "[a-zA-Z0-9-]*-0\d{2}" | sort | uniq better: curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11881767" | grep -Po "[a-zA-Z0-9-]*-0\d{2}" | sort | uniq | awk '{print "# " $0}' You might might want to update your script :)
Done.
Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't buy that reasoning. If that were true, they'd cease doing anything for marketing purposes. In reality, a brand and a reputation of educational leadership is something that requires continuous investment.
Correct, and top universities do that through investment in research and publication rather than populist fads. Every once in a while people call into question the value of higher education and ask whether MOOCs mark the end of traditional universities. I find it ironic that when top universities flex their muscles and start asking those people to pay up for classes - the same classes that you otherwise would have ha…
Maybe we should have a Coursera-like site exclusively for non-US universities, then. Meaning the courses are taxpayer funded and free for students (or, in some places, you might be paid to take them ;) ).
Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#216In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes. Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry. =========================== 1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean. I am using the 40$/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…
My downloads:
- ac-005: Analytic Combinatorics
- aofa-006: Analysis of Algorithms
- neuralnets-2012-001: Neural Networks for Machine Learning
- nlp: Natural Language ProcessingRe: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#217It 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…
Perhaps this is a good point in history to create an open repository of problems authored by contributors with some sort of CC license. Basing it on the material of existing MOOC courses would provide focus and relevance. Also long term insurance against changes in openness of MOOCs.
Problems need to be original authorship and not copied from textbooks for obvious reasons. Thoughts?
Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#218It 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…
> Please don't be like Udacity
Huh? Udacity has numerous free courses. They've never made a free course non-free. Any new paid course is developed with new material, and they're still churning out free courses.
Here's one of the gems from the early days of Udacity - Peter Norvig's Design of Computer Programs: https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...
And here's one of the early machine learning courses: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud...
Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 This amazes me. Are you leaving out more significant details? I cannot begin to imagine this happening where I live, in London. Being hired based on a MOOC? Did you go on to do some impressive projects which got you the job?
I had a couple of cool personal projects, but what really impressed them was that I sent them a minimum viable product of what they were trying to build. It was a music company so I put my hacky Perl skills to work and crawled youtube, songkick, musicbrainz and made a small music discovery website with cool features such as predicting the popularity of an artist based on social media metrics. I was like "I can do tha…
Did they pay for the flight to Canada and accommodation for the interview, or did you?
Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
#220It 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…
Did udacity block access to any of the earlier courses though? I can still access all free courses I've ever found on the site (and with the videos available on youtube)
Not only did they not block them, they've added more free standalone courses alongside their paid "Nanodegree" courses.