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190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: If you haven't heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. In the past six years or so, over 800 universities have created more than 10,000 of these MOOCs. And I've been keeping track of these MOOCs the entire time over at Class Central, ever since they rose to prominence.
In the past four months alone, 190 universities have announced 600 such free online courses. I've compiled a list of them and categorized them according to the following subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics, Programming, Data Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education & Teaching, Health & Medicine, Business, Personal Development, Engineering, Art & Design, and finally Science. The full list is available in the report. If you need help signing up, there's a report for that too.
In the past four months alone, 190 universities have announced 600 such free online courses. I've compiled a list of them and categorized them according to the following subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics, Programming, Data Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education & Teaching, Health & Medicine, Business, Personal Development, Engineering, Art & Design, and finally Science. The full list is available in the report. If you need help signing up, there's a report for that too.
Education must not be free, it must result in debts so that students can be controlled and funneled into class warfare to promote more Republican nazism.
How about commenting on the utility effectiveness of the classes instead?
Education is now a commodity (or could be).
People who are worthy of pursuing intellectual self-improvement can and will gladly pay their own way.
All the rest should have vocational schools to attend, perhaps with needs-based aid from governments (but preferably charities or special programs at the vocational schools themselves).
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It takes resources to research the effectiveness of the classes. Those resources have already been stolen at the point of a gun in order to fund something stupid, such as a government grant to study the Patriarchal Roots of Newtonian Physics.
Look at the quality lecture hall.
Enjoy our most fun, charming and photogenic academics.
Take out a loan and enrol.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
What is the value of the certificate they provide at the end? Does it hold any weight?
To me, your reply smacks of delicious cognitive dissonance.
There are also many non-university courses available online.
One example is this excellent free introductory data science course which can be done entirely in your browser. "Chromebook Data Science": https://leanpub.com/universities/set/jhu/chromebook-data-science
Let me know when education is education again. The shit that gets passed off as education today is disgraceful. We should not be graduating students without practical skills while being dyed in "progressive" social agendas. Today's classroom is not to educate but to indoctrinate. I would like to think people could get together and come up with a non-partisan curriculum that actually bolsters students into being independent humans instead of propaganda echo boxes.
pay their own way at 25-40K+ year to get piece of paper.
vocational schools have to be 2-4 year with the piece of paper to get past HR.
"Those resources have already been stolen at the point of a gun" - Is this your creative writing class, or are you lying by extreme exaggeration to try to make a realistic point about education as if that wasn't antithetical and stupid?
No French? Or Mari language? Or one of the 900 languages they speak in Indian continent? No development of vocabulary of the modern world? Dammit!
I'm enormously thankful for the expansion of the MOOCs. I've completed 12 to date this year and am currently enrolled in 7. I've already tagged interest in 6 more. I'm auditing only and all have been free of cost. They are generally extremely polished and equal to in-room courses currently taught in universities. Princeton, Harvard, Penn Law, Illinois Law, U Cal Davis Law have all contributed to extending my knowledge. Professors I've only read about have taken their time to teach online. If these had been available before I started college I could have made better choices in my curriculum. When Professor Charles Fried or Professor Erwin Chemerinsky sign up for these classes, I'm greatly appreciative. Hats off and a deep bow.
"A study on the Patriarchal Roots of Newtonian Physics? I'm not paying for that."
Just try saying that to the Tax Man.
Anti-education republican wants to "solve the education problem" again, throw it on the burning retard pile with the rest of 'em. It's patently obvious you never went to college in the last century. Thanks for the role-playing, Rush.
Despite popular beliefs, MOOC are not free to run. The University must appoint teachers to support them. Indeed less teachers per student are required than on a regular course, but it is still a cost. How is it funded here?
One side wants to point a gun around, telling people what to do. The other side just wants to leave people alone.
It's not a symmetric debate; it's not merely a matter of expressing opinions; it's not possible just to agree to disagree.
Civilized Society forbids one of these sides to exist; I'll leave that to the debaters to figure out which one.
When I wrote "smacks", I knew you would riff on it. You didn't disappoint.
The English-speaking world is the creator of all these awesome things; that's why all these awesome things are in English.
There's this newfangled idea called Capitalism, which provides an excellent way to find the value something provides to society, how much it costs, who should pay for it, and how the requisite flows for resources can be organized to keep it sustainable, all without the participants even realizing that they are cooperating in this discovery process.
I wonder if they have a course of Capitalism. You should take it.
Online course materials are free because, like facts, they are worthless. The degree and the organization that prints it is all people want to understand these days to give you a job. It's like racism at another level. Or, if you want a buzz phrase: it's who you know that matters, not what you know.
Some 3 years ago I decided to learn Java, after being an embedded guy for 30 years or so. I learn best by being given problems to solve (I was a math major, learned C/C++ on my own, long story deleted). I could not find a single book, nor course, that would help me. Lots of disjointed tutorials on how to do this, or that. But absolutely nothing to take me from installing java/javac, to learning the libraries (yeah, libraries. They're all C++ like, you'll learn the syntax in a day, but it's the libraries and philosophy of the language that counts.)
/., is the only one that requires them. Stuck on stupid.
Seems we could put off gassing up an F-35 to fail the latest test to pay for a free course on how to learn Java. Hell, for the price of gassing up an F-35, then paying to maintain that aircraft after a 1 hour flight, they could come up with free courses on 3-4 languages, plus another for OO design.
Why do I still have to add markup paragraph breaks between paragraphs? I remember when it was normal, but now the "leading" tech site,
Why don't you try not paying your taxes and see who boots in your door and points a gun at you?
Why don't you try not paying your taxes and see who boots in your door and points a gun at you?
The IRS may garnish your wages and put a lien on your house, but they rarely kick down doors.
Those sound like euphemisms to me.
Keep ignoring those soft euphemisms for armed robbery, and you'll end up with jackboots on your throat.
... lobsters?
You're a moron. Having educated people in society is of society's interest, and worth spending tax money on. It unlocks profits that otherwise wouldn't exist, and that's just for starters. No, education is a positive influence on society.
Your lack of it is on display, not "Marxism" lol. If you don't want to pay taxes, that's fine. Don't make any money though, because society made that possible and society has decided taxes must be paid to pay for it.
Don't like it? Leave. You'll find it's the same everywhere, maybe you can find some backwards education-free place that requires no extra taxes for that effort. Maybe that's exactly where you belong, frankly.
Keeping track of thousands of MOOCs is tricky, and even trickier is finding the good ones. There are some half-assed courses on Udemy for example that are significantly worse than equivalent (but unstructured) offerings on YouTube.
Here's almost an indentical article, from the same site, dated Nov 8 2017. Numbers are different. https://qz.com/1120344/200-uni...
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Why would you invest in something like education when this one particular organization that calls itself "government" sticks a gun in your face and makes you pay for its own version of the same thing? Resources are limited, and the government is already taking your resources to do it.
Capitalism doesn't allow for a government; a government ruins capitalism.