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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by thoralfskolem »

hatsunearu wrote: post #75
saganus wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also found https://class.coursera.org/crypto-010/lecture and https://class.coursera.org/crypto-preview/lecture but I think the first one is newer. There's also https://class.coursera.org/ml-003/lecture So I guess yours is newer. Found as well: https://class.coursera.org/automata/lecture https://class.coursera.org/hci/lecture https://class.coursera.org/pgm/lecture And others. I just did a Google site search: site:cl…

> https://class.coursera.org/crypto-010/lecture Speaking of this, I got an email about the following issue: The Coursera boneheads decide to do this. What does this mean for the crypto II class? DELAYED AGAIN! It's been delayed for YEARS. YEARS I say. Another delay because of asinine greed.

Professor Boneh is pretty busy... I've been waiting for a while for this too. This has been the never-starting tease course.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by 0xmohit »

haches wrote: post #125

Worthwhile 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

One may find Introduction to Functional Programming [1] by Erik Meijer interesting.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programmi...

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by j_s »

glogla wrote: post #151
ikeboy wrote: post #143

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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.)

I wouldn't be surprised if they already had it. It would (unfortunately) be surprising if they chose to redistribute it, though.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by aladine »

jaked89 wrote: post #154
latenightcoding wrote: post #113

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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.

I think they will change to monetize everything very soon. Right now is the transisition period where by you still able to seek for financial aid and get approved.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by HugoMelo »

saganus wrote: post #227
HugoMelo wrote: post #226

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you have to enroll in them and accept their honor rolls first. Does that work?

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 :)

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by raybb »

dhawalhs wrote: post #188
znpy wrote: post #135

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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…

Made a list of 220 courses that are still open for enrollment: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kaWxZG3krI83WfdzlExW... I will work on figuring out the slugs next. For you now, you will need to signup for the course and figure it out. You can also find the same the list on Class Central where you can filter by subjects or sort by rating: https://www.class-central.com/collection/coursera-old-stack

If you go the page where all your archived courses are and run this code it'll give you a list of the slugs :)

//////////Grab archived urls

var archived = document.getElementsByClassName("link-button primary"); var archivedUrls = []; var slugs = []; for (var i = 0; i 

  function getDatas(LLL){
    $.ajax({
      url: LLL,
      dataType: 'text',
      success: function (data) {
        var re = /F[a-zA-Z0-9-]*-0\d{2}/;
        var info = data.match(re)[0];
        var fixeInfo = info.substring(1);
        slugs.push(fixeInfo);
        console.log(fixeInfo);
      }
    });
  }
var ii = 0; // set your counter to 1

function myLoop () { // create a loop function setTimeout(function () { // call a 3s setTimeout when the loop is called console.log(archivedUrls[ii]); getDatas(archivedUrls[ii]); ii++; // increment the counter if (ii myLoop(); // start the loop

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by tokipin »

krick wrote: post #228
znpy wrote: post #159

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As someone else pointed out, that is not allowed by the TOS. But quite frankly... now that such content is not freely available anymore, I expect that to begin circulating on the p2p networks anyway.

Speaking of which: a few years ago there was quite awesome astronomy course, which I didn't have time to finish in real-time, and the content was deleted as soon as the course ended. I liked it wa-ay better than any other astronomy-ish stuff they had (and still have) later: it was more about actually modelling the celestial sphere and understanding the movement of the planets, than vaguely speaking about contents of…

you're probably thinking of "Introduction to Astronomy" by Ronen Plesser. that course was awesome.

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Post by userbinator »

shock wrote: post #153
raldu wrote: post #146

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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?

The Coursera TOS prohibit this. Specificaly, "You may download content from our Services only for your personal, non-commercial use, unless you obtain Coursera's written permission to otherwise use the content."[0] [0] - https://www.coursera.org/about/terms

ToS and even copyright law never stopped SciHub and LibGen.

An old saying I remember from my days in the ebook scene: "Those who want the knowledge will always find it."

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by raybb »

dhawalhs wrote: post #188
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…

Made a list of 220 courses that are still open for enrollment: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kaWxZG3krI83WfdzlExW... I will work on figuring out the slugs next. For you now, you will need to signup for the course and figure it out. You can also find the same the list on Class Central where you can filter by subjects or sort by rating: https://www.class-central.com/collection/coursera-old-stack

Here's a list of slugs for almost all of the courses! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W1PZEQbb1jnNh-EeFUoB...

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by dimdimdim »

Dear Coursera,

Thanks for all the free courses for the last couple of years. I understand the need to be profitable and make this a real business so you don't have to fire all your good employees who have helped provide free education for so long.

I for one welcome what you are doing - as I understand that's is impossible to sustain a free model forever.

All the best!

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