More Stanford Computing Courses Go Free

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 21, 2011 @07:56AM from the get-your-learning-on dept.

mikejuk writes "Following on the recent Slashdot item on the availability of a free Stanford AI course there is news that two other Stanford Computer Science courses are also joining in this 'bold experiment in distributed education' in which students not only have access to lecture videos and other course materials but will actively participate by submitting assignments and getting regular feedback on their progress. The subjects are Machine Learning with Andrew Ng and Database with Jennifer Widom. This open approach looks as if it might be a success with well over 100,000 prospective students signing up to the AI course alone."

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Re:Distance Learning? by vlm · 2011-08-21 08:12 · Score: 5, Insightful

Online education is ok, but there's no substitute for being able to ask questions in realtime and address issues with an actual teacher.
However, its good practice for post-graduation education, where you're lucky if you've got google and possibly an oreilly book.

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Re:URLs for courses by Megahard · 2011-08-21 08:58 · Score: 5, Funny

I signed up my home desktop for the machine learning class.

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