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Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by Noseshine »

Houshalter wrote: post #106
LionessLover wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Percentage matters only if you care about the rest of humanity. If you are happy with having a prosperous minority you are fine. It's a matter of choice, you are right, there is no hard line set by the universe.

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Post by sofaofthedamned »

latenightcoding wrote: post #198
logingone wrote: post #194

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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…

Excellent, you're a great example of how this stuff should work!

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Post by HugoMelo »

HugoMelo wrote: post #235
saganus wrote: post #227

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Not really. I was already enrolled and it didn't work, so not sure what happened.

odd, I shared the 2 courses on google drive https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_H50uBwsok6ZGxzbjU0cUU0OW... https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_H50uBwsok6d2w4YlVQcjNNSG... hope it works :)

new folks: use https://drive.google.com/a/hugomelo.com/folderview?id=0B_H50... and https://drive.google.com/a/hugomelo.com/folderview?id=0B_H50... so it doesn't ask me for permissions, did not anticipate how many folks would ask :)

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Post by macmac »

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…

I am getting a 404 for the algo2-003, but the others work fine.

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Post by fizzbatter »

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 i may ask, the Ng course - how much prior knowledge did you have in the course?

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Post by mohsinr »

markdown wrote: post #222
mohsinr wrote: post #145

Disappointed by Coursera and Udacity (they positioned for free MOOCs and now they are taking everything back they offered). More power to KhanAcademy and MIT Open Courseware! For staying true to their mission of providing Free Courses...

> Disappointed by Udacity (they positioned for free MOOCs and now they are taking everything back they offered). Nonsense. Udacity now have paid "Nanodegree" courses alongside their free ones. They haven't removed their free courses, and in fact continue to release new free ones. Also, their paid courses come with grading and code feedback from humans, so it's not like it was scalable as a free option. Further, they…

Thank you for the correction. I edit my comment about Udacity. Sorry looks like It cannot bed edited anymore. But thanks to your comment, users will not be mislead by comment about udacity. I was browsing from my mobile and could not find free courses easily like it used to be so thought it was gone, but now I see we can still access we just have to look further. Thank you!
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