Anybody taking Free Stanford Classes this Fall??



yes please do - the entrepeneur I said it had several successful ventures launched (out of 10k plus students)-

very interested in level II which is for operations which are already launched although not sure how i feel about a random person "being on my board of directors actively" lol that can be an exercise in trust.

I think for anyone who has been out of school for a while can benefit from this for the sheer reason that it immerses you in an elearning environment which carries through to "our world" depending on what class it is...and from the looks of it quite a few of the classes are relevant (business, development, design, ALGORITHMS OH MY!)
 
Paper_Chase said:
Awesome! Which course did you take? Can you share some more about your experience?

Thanks!
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Machine learning.

The professor is one of the smartest guys in machine learning and unlike a lot of really smart technical guys he is able to articulate concepts and thoughts really well.

Essentially these courses are "what it would be like to have one of the smartest people in field [X] spend 80 hours of their time explaining [X] in a way that anyone can understand". Which is different from usual intro classes at universities where you are being taught by some no name teacher (as the smartest professors all only want to teach the interesting/complicated stuff).

But of course on the flipside the info wasn't nearly as in-depth as an actual compsci class at Stanford (or for my frame of reference, Carnegie Mellon). But that's because most people don't have enough time to keep up with a class that would move at that speed. Which makes it much more informative/useful for somebody who wants to get a lot out of a class without knowing an epic fuckton of data/prereqs going in.
 
boatBurner said:
This is one hell of a share. iamjon and Paper_Chase, +1. Thanks guys.
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Coursera has over 120 free courses as well: https://www.coursera.org

These are the ones I'm taking...

An Introduction to Operations Management: https://www.coursera.org/course/operations
Grow to Greatness Smart Growth for Private Businesses Part I: https://www.coursera.org/course/growtogreatness
Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part II: https://www.coursera.org/course/GTG
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue: https://www.coursera.org/course/thinkagain

There are alot of Computer Science/Programming courses on there aswell.
 
Paper_Chase said:
Coursera has over 120 free courses as well: https://www.coursera.org

These are the ones I'm taking...

An Introduction to Operations Management: https://www.coursera.org/course/operations
Grow to Greatness Smart Growth for Private Businesses Part I: https://www.coursera.org/course/growtogreatness
Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part II: https://www.coursera.org/course/GTG
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue: https://www.coursera.org/course/thinkagain

There are alot of Computer Science/Programming courses on there aswell.
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I was wondering if you guys had found Coursera yet.

Here's a great TED talk by the lady that helped build Coursea about the multifaceted uses for online courses that have hundreds of thousands of students at one time (Imagine the data obtained!!) and the opportunity it presents for molding learning patterns in the future.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6FvJ6jMGHU]Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education - YouTube[/ame]



Edit: looks like this one starts Monday. Might interest some here. https://www.coursera.org/course/networks
 
if it weren't for the designation of getting a degree i wouldn't have paid 50c of the thousands it cost for a professor to lamely guide me thru each textbook. will hunting had it right.
 
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