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Re: Coursera - online university.

Wheylous — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:55:59 GMT

It's not formal - you don't have to sign up, I don't think. You can just go to the website and see all the course material + homework etc.

Re: Coursera - online university.

EmbraceLiberty — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:39:40 GMT

Wheylous, does Saylor Univ have classes or does it have a format that you could just walk in and learn similar to Khan?

Re: Coursera - online university.

Wheylous — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:26:17 GMT

Anton - no, I haven't. But I've looked through a few of them and they seem interesting. Do note that you don't get credits for them, however. Still, if you learn the material you might be able to test out of some classes.

Re: Coursera - online university.

Anton — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:04:37 GMT

kelvin_silva:

khanacademy.org

Thanks, I used this incredible site to prepare for my finance exams last year (Khan explained backwardation and contango like nobody else in my university) and I watched a couple of history videos, but I haven't visited this site for a long time, mainly because of its orientation on high school material.

@ EmbraceLiberty

As far as I know, no Coursera course offers college credits, but plenty of them award a signed certificate on successful accomplishment, though I see no big value in them.

@ Wheylous

Thanks a lot for suggesting Saylor University. Have you taken any courses from it?

Re: Coursera - online university.

Kelvin Silva — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:45:03 GMT

khanacademy.org

http://www.khanacademy.org/library

Ive watched his videos on chemistry, and geometry/agl2, they are pretty good.

yaymath.org is good for highschool mathematics too.

its not really that you have to enroll.

its just a depository for this guys videos on various subjects. you can jsut go on the website watch videos and start learning right away,

its not really structured so you can jump around other places (though you can go thorugh a structured route if you want).

Re: Coursera - online university.

DanielMuff — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:33:32 GMT

It's pretty fun. I like the gamification aspect of it.

Re: Coursera - online university.

EmbraceLiberty — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:29:39 GMT

Have you attended Khan?

Re: Coursera - online university.

Kelvin Silva — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:25:02 GMT

khanacademy

more high school level though.

Re: Coursera - online university.

Wheylous — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:23:52 GMT

I don't think so.

Re: Coursera - online university.

EmbraceLiberty — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:05:06 GMT

Do you get college credit?

Re: Coursera - online university.

Wheylous — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:25:14 GMT

This and many others (such as Saylor University).

I plan on writing an article about alternatives to state education.

Coursera - online university.

Anton — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:08:13 GMT

In the early August I've watched this TED talk and registered on the https://www.coursera.org/. I was impressed with the variety of topics and courses that one can attend here for free, so I decided to share it with you. I've recently signed up for this History course that seems to be very promising.

(Please visit the site to view this media)

(Introduction video that can be accessed once signed up for the course is much more interesting, imo)

That said, does anybody know similar education resources? (Except for Khan Academy :))