Stanford courses in Jan 2012

[bin3]

Due to the success of the previous courses, Stanford will be doing a bunch of new free and online courses in January 2012

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/3361-stanfords-free-computer-science-courses.html

The ball had been started rolling by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig's free online version of their Stanford AI class, for which they hoped to reach an audience in the order of a hundred thousand, a target which they seem to have achieved.
Then two more courses were announced for the Fall 2011 Semester and now we have news of another batch of courses that will follow the same model for the forthcoming Spring Semester, starting in January or February 2012.
The model is that courses are delivered as lecture videos, which are broken into small chunks some of which will contain integrated quiz questions. There will be approximately two hours worth of video content per week over 10 weeks.
There are no textbooks to buy, although there may be some recommended reading; and no tuition, although there will be forums for asking questions and receiving feedback and answers.

 

[Devill]

I got this via email from a friend and wondered how real it is.

I think I will take/do the two newly added courses.

 

[smb3]

I also seem interested in this ....

quick questions:

* are there any exams associated with it?
* more personal question, would you enrol with your real name? ... lol asking because I might not take this seriously which may have negative effects in real life?

 

[^^vampire^^]

I also seem interested in this ....

quick questions:

* are there any exams associated with it?
* more personal question, would you enrol with your real name? ... lol asking because I might not take this seriously which may have negative effects in real life?

* From what I could find they give you a "Badge of Completion" so it's kind of just an acknowledgement that you did the course. They don't give you credits towards any of their courses if you complete it.
* Not sure about exams but they do give you weekly projects to complete.
* Don't think anything negative would result from using your real name. If you see the stats of how many people originally registered versus the amount of people that completed the course there would be no point. Personally I think they would only worry about this if you were a paying student.

 

[smb3]

* From what I could find they give you a "Badge of Completion" so it's kind of just an acknowledgement that you did the course. They don't give you credits towards any of their courses if you complete it.
* Not sure about exams but they do give you weekly projects to complete.
* Don't think anything negative would result from using your real name. If you see the stats of how many people originally registered versus the amount of people that completed the course there would be no point. Personally I think they would only worry about this if you were a paying student.

Ah thanks very much for this info