Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
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Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
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Re: Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
#2Watch out, this guy is about to write a letter.
Re: Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
#3As a stanford CS grad myself, I basically concur. I took this class as a refresher for things I learned back in school. It was perfect for that. But the rigor and difficulty of the class was clearly tailored towards someone like me, who wanted to watch lecture videos over dinner for a few hours a week, rather than a full-time student.
I actually wasn't aware that the online class was being offered for credit in the CS department until reading this. It surprises me that they're doing so.
Re: Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
#4I think there's a great opportunity to take online classes to the masses without sacrificing the quality of a brick and mortar education. These classes don't need to be offered free, just cheap. If they charged $10 for the whole class (a steal really!) they'd make $1,000,000 a semester per class. That should pay for the bandwidth, and teacher, and material. Scale that to less niche classes, you have a real business! I'd personally pay $10 for a class, even if it did not qualify for credit.
Re: Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
#5As a stanford CS grad myself, I basically concur. I took this class as a refresher for things I learned back in school. It was perfect for that. But the rigor and difficulty of the class was clearly tailored towards someone like me, who wanted to watch lecture videos over dinner for a few hours a week, rather than a full-time student. I actually wasn't aware that the online class was being offered for credit in the C…
I did the AI class and that was not the case. Stanford students were clearly separated from the online students. We didn't get the same assignments neither.
Re: Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
#6According to the website http://cs229a.stanford.edu/ there are class meetings, according to the blogpost everything is done solitary?
Another difference with the course offered to the public is that there is an open ended project.
If he really wanted a harder class, why not take CS229 and not CS229A...
If you want something to be harder, to get more out of something you should pursue it yourself, not depend on others.
I see (online) education as a guide, not as the only source of input. Selfstudy and initiative is the most important thing.
Re: Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
#7Put down the pen. MIT, Stanford, et.al. have already done the math on this.
20,000 "certification" exams @ $99.00 each is not insignificant. It's just shy of 40 full-time students @ $50,000 per year.
Heats a lot of buildings.
Re: Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
#8I have watched a few of the online lectures offered by Stanford and I can't help but notice that the audio and video quality of the lectures is terrible. The video will not track the lecturer, and the audio will randomly cut in and out for long periods of time. (If I remember correctly, one lecture was missing half its audio) Also, I am unsure of the class sizes at Stanford but it seems like no one can arrive on time to a lecture.
Re: Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
#9I have watched a few of the online lectures offered by Stanford and I can't help but notice that the audio and video quality of the lectures is terrible. The video will not track the lecturer, and the audio will randomly cut in and out for long periods of time. (If I remember correctly, one lecture was missing half its audio) Also, I am unsure of the class sizes at Stanford but it seems like no one can arrive on time…
The online lectures you are talking about are the ones on youtube. They are not the same as the ones used in ml-class.org. The latter ones are in a completely different format.
It is not just a recording of a "normal" lecture...
Re: Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford Student
#10According to the website http://cs229a.stanford.edu/ there are class meetings, according to the blogpost everything is done solitary? Another difference with the course offered to the public is that there is an open ended project. If he really wanted a harder class, why not take CS229 and not CS229A... If you want something to be harder, to get more out of something you should pursue it yourself, not depend on others…
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