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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by visarga »

veddox wrote: post #157
sotojuan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, it did suck when a course you wanted wasn't available any time soon, but I have to say their model did make sense. I took part in a timed/dated course (however you want to call it) and it did actually give one something approaching a "classroom feeling", as compared to doing a course completely on your own.

Holding people off from enlisting in a course is only useful if you're going to offer the course eventually, and sooner rather than later. Otherwise, it just doesn't make sense to keep it locked.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by visarga »

zhte415 wrote: post #86
sotojuan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Indeed. I feel a gamefication theme to some of it. Think of the opposite: Socrates had his teachings and live lectures online, with recorded classroom, and feedback, for all to comment on, with his replies. It may have only been 'live' for 20/40 years of his life/teaching life/sharing life, but it would be amazing today. MOOCs offer this opportunity for humanity, to record teachings in increasingly diverse formats th…

What MOOCs need is deep understanding of human learning, as it relates to specific fields. In other words they need to keep track on a per-user-basis of the level of mastery they have on all the relevant concepts. They need to map out how relevant concepts rely on each other, and be able to make recommendations.

It often feels like an avalanche of books, courses, materials - we need simple paths through this mess. We need to keep people right in the sweetspot - not giving them too difficult material, but also not too easy, just right enough to maximize learning. And this perfect gradation of difficulty can be reverse engineered through machine learning over student activity logs.

Another area they need to invest in is the practical side. Course takers need more examples, tests, problems and projects. Only by applying the concepts in reality will students gain firm confidence in their abilities.

I don't think the "short course" format is the best. It might be better to have a graph of concept nodes, each equipped with its own instructional materials, problems and tests. The graph can be expanded gradually to include more concepts and to reduce the gradient of difficulty for the more problematic ones.

People who bang their heads against difficult material and don't grock it might feel discouraged and give up. But if they can build confidence that everything is taught gradually and without too violent jumps in difficulty, they might improve the dropout rate.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by glogla »

raybb wrote: post #239
dhawalhs wrote: post #188

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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...

Some I managed to download are missing:

audio-002 eefun-001 experiments-001 hci model-thinking-006 recsys-001

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by shareknowledge »

shareknowledge wrote: post #229
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…

http://pastebin.com/ESiirEjU list of available courses, in format: course_session_id, course_link

found that list contained closed for enrollment sessions, new list http://pastebin.com/1N8ijd7p

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by mmishu »

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…

Can I do this with plural sight courses?

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by edraferi »

quincyla wrote: post #67
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 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…

Hadn't heard of FCC before, just checked it out. I really like the idea of parntnering with nonprofits to solicit practical capstone exercises. Seems like a good way to croas the production deployment barrier.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by tdullien »

cgrubb wrote: post #216
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…

My downloads: - ac-005: Analytic Combinatorics - aofa-006: Analysis of Algorithms - neuralnets-2012-001: Neural Networks for Machine Learning - nlp: Natural Language Processing

Hey there,

I was enrolled in the 2013 edition of Analytic Combinatorics, but it seems that I am out of luck - no access to the materials either way. :-/

Does anyone happen to have the name of the 2013 edition? Or is it by design that these can no longer be accessed?

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by avodonosov »

bad_user wrote: post #197
avodonosov wrote: post #12

Script to save course materials: https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl I haven't tried it yet. Just was asking around how to save course materials (videos, slides, notes, etc) of an old platform course I want to return to sometimes. Got this advice: > app which can help you download all the > materials at one go. > https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl > Doesn't work all the time, but for old > courses shou…

Thanks for the hint. I've downloaded about 4 courses. Time to put that 1 TB of online storage to good use :-)

don't forget to share the links

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by mattfrommars »

This is bad to hear. I never managed to do a single course in the past due to other commitments. Only thing I did manage was to enroll with them. What can I do now? I wanted to learn to code and become good at it and land a job or atleast get involved in local software development companies. Is this still possible with coursera shutting down? I'm getting a little stressed in being 'late to the party'.
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