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Coursera Relaunches Classic Computer Science Courses (i-programmer.info)
"Many of the Computer Science courses that we feared had been assigned to the scrapheap have reappeared in Coursera's catalog," reports i-programmer.info.
Slashdot reader mikejuk shares this update on his original story:
Coursera has a list of 90 courses that have transitioned to the new platform since the old one shut on June 30th and it includes 25 Computer Science ones and the all important [Geoffrey] Hinton course on neural networks. Most of the courses are free but there are no certificates of completion or anything else. While they have specified start dates and cohorts of students will be encouraged to complete them within a set number of weeks, without graded assignments there may not be the same impetus as for the original courses or as for newer courses designed specifically for the new platform.
Coursera says "As has always been our intention, we are working diligently to relaunch the vast majority of the courses from our old platform on the new one." i-programmer.info has apparently removed their original article, and their reporter writes that "I am now willing to retract my accusation of 'cultural vandalism'... Why [Coursera] managed to convey the opposite impression for such a long time may just have been a failure of communication."
Coursera says "As has always been our intention, we are working diligently to relaunch the vast majority of the courses from our old platform on the new one." i-programmer.info has apparently removed their original article, and their reporter writes that "I am now willing to retract my accusation of 'cultural vandalism'... Why [Coursera] managed to convey the opposite impression for such a long time may just have been a failure of communication."
I am not sure what these courses do, if anything, to at least let you know if you are failing or succeeding at learning the material. But a lot of the computer science courses I took had automatic grading. They had an online script capable of testing the correctness of submitted executables.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Certificates, or degrees for that matter, are over-rated and doesn't hint at all at a person's deductive reasoning.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
He should have retracted his comments regardless of what happened. Having a company stop hosting content for free, with notice, and allowing people to archive a copy of the content before hand is not and never was cultural vandalism.
Their reporter was just an over entitled twat who needed to reach his clickbait quota. If he cared at all he would have downloaded all the culture and preserved a copy.