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190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses

Posted by BeauHD on from the knowledge-is-power dept.

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.

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  1. Republicans are against this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Republicans are against this by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Trump Derangement Syndrome, modded up to +5 on Slashdot. So disgraceful.

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      Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
  2. This could be a good thing by Snotnose · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.)

    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, /., is the only one that requires them. Stuck on stupid.

  3. Re:It's time to stop funding universities by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People who are worthy of pursuing intellectual self-improvement can and will gladly pay their own way.

    Public universities are not funded for the benefit of the students. They are funded for the broad benefit of the public. A thriving research university can bring enormous benefits to a region.

    If you think education is too expensive, you should do a cost-benefit analysis on ignorance.