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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 vardhanw »

mmishu wrote: post #245
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?

I found this useful https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-ways-to-download-videos-f.... Of course it works only if you have an account.

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Post by krick »

tokipin wrote: post #237
krick wrote: post #228

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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.

Yes, thank you very much. That's exactly it!

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Post by dhawalhs »

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...

Ahh...just saw this. I already updated the original document with the slugs.

Thanks!

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Post by dhawalhs »

glogla wrote: post #243
raybb wrote: post #239

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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

I only listed courses that haven't been moved to the new platform yet. So courses like Model Thinking and Recommender Systems have been ported over. I suspect its the same for other courses that you listed.

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Post by zodiac »

nborwankar wrote: post #217
quincyla wrote: post #67

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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…

Perhaps this is a good point in history to create an open repository of problems authored by contributors with some sort of CC license. Basing it on the material of existing MOOC courses would provide focus and relevance. Also long term insurance against changes in openness of MOOCs. Problems need to be original authorship and not copied from textbooks for obvious reasons. Thoughts?

I think so too - are you thinking of building such a thing? I noticed you had some open data science ipython notebooks on GitHub.

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Post by smith5555 »

I don't know about the old Udacity, but I love the new Udacity the way I use it. I load up on topics that might interest me, and run thru them at top speed. I get a quick (and very useful) overview by what appear to be very skilled communicators. I don't think I'll ever go for the project based learning model, too much potential for copy, paste, get reward like Codeacademy. Re Coursera, I've never found a class that held my attention till the end. I don't think they are challenging enough, but good information.

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Post by plinkplonk »

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 :)

Google Drive says you need to grant access to download this. Clicked on the 'ask owner for permission' button. Hope you grant it.

Thanks!

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by plinkplonk »

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 :)

Got permission thanks. Will download to local storage tomorrow ish.
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