New free online computer-science courses from Princeton, Stanford, UMich, Penn start Monday
April 20, 2012
Coursera is launching six new free pnline courses on Monday April 23: Automata, Compilers, Computer Science 101, Computer Vision: The Fundamentals, Introduction to Logic, and Machine Learning.
Coursera is partnering with Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania to offer about 40 free online courses on Computer Science, the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, and many other topics.
You’ll watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises.
Comments (1)
by GatorALLin
…love this idea….. but curious if the students can rank the videos or teachings…? In summary, you want the best way to teach each topic to float to the top over time… it would be cool to have the worlds best teachers each proving that their method of teaching was the best (somehow rank the students who do well rank higher when they say thumps up or 5 stars, vs. those that don’t take the tests, or do poorly, or just rank them differently). Love that this is free… some kid in Africa may watch this on his cell phone…. and change the world…. Love the basic idea!!!