Atleast uDemy promises Lifetime Access forever despite it being pirated or not... its a Garuantee.
Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
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#172This sort of thing would obviously happen as Coursera is a high-value, VC-backed firm. This sort of thing is best done open and nonprofit. One I know like that is EDX: non-profit with open source software with courses from MIT, Harvard, etc. Check it out people.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
You just don't get it. I can afford to pay for a MOOC and I would consider it, but there are millions of people who can't afford it. Coursera's about page used to say this: "committed to making the best education in the world freely available to any person who seeks it". Now they have removed every instance of the word "free" https://www.coursera.org/about/ Nothing wrong with being a for-profit company, but they went…
So? They have changed their business model. They're entitled to do so. If you care so much about the poor, you might as well subsidize a MOOC for them, instead of demanding Coursera to do so.
Wow, your response is in no way meaningful. Your response adds exactly nothing to the discussion. Nobody "demanded" anything.
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#174Coursera actually converted a course I was enrolled in to paid-quizzes-only, while I was actively enrolled in the course and on the second to last week of eight. They finally converted it back after 2 days of many of us contacting support but never gave me a straight answer as to whether it was accidentally or intentional :-/ Definitely lost my faith in Coursera as a platform over these recent changes.
I never liked Coursera because they offered classes only sometimes... I know a "real classroom" experience is what they were going after but it sucks finding a great looking course that will be offered a year later or worse, no upcoming dates. Sad to see they're going to downhill though.
It's really the worst combination of features from the online and offline worlds: the strict synchrony of offline classes combined with the lack of in-person contact.
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#175I have to blame my procrastination and never having the habit to complete or start any of the courses I had 'enrolled' in. Now coursera shutting down, I'm leaving all my hopes to the knight of the internet to archive these. Will download and hopefully get back.
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#176It 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…
Coursera is willing to have the same amount of money you're willing to keep. How are they greedier than you? Expecting a service without giving anything in return is the definition of "greedy".
The spiritual message was that they were democratizing access to education. That dream has apparently died and this is the mourning process. Go back to your Ayn Rand book.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can someone get the archive team on this?
I don't think that would be legal. Coursera ToS definitely prohibits something like this. I can see a case for a torrent with the courses mysteriously appearing on some torrent site and someone linking it here, though. Man, those cheeky pirates! They can't leave anything alone. (I don't personally have bandwidth for something like that, sadly. Of course I'm also not a pirate.)
A violation of the "Coursera ToS" doesn't imply that something illegal was done. But even if it did I doubt that it would carry any weight outside of the US.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
What course names did you use? I could not find the ones from Prof. Sedgewick, only the one from Prof. Roughgarden
try algs4partI-010 and algs4partII-007
Well... I guess it's too late... they probably noticed already because I can't download any more courses :(
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#179Worthwhile to point out that edX is a non-profit [1] unlike Coursera [2] and Udacity [3]. [1] https://www.edx.org/about-us [2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coursera [3] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/udacity
Kinda. They act more like a for-profit than like a non-profit.
How so? All of their classes are available for free, the only thing you have to pay for is the certificate. Non profit =/= no profit.
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#180If I was a prof, I'd have every one of my lectures recorded and put online for free. I wish I had recorded the lectures I attended in college. Not recalling the lectures means the notes I took in class don't make much sense. Heck, I record all of the presentations I do, and they get posted for free on the intarnets. I put a fair amount of work into them - why hide them?
A bit tangential, but do you mind to share what equipment do you use to record your presentations?