Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past decade you’ll already have heard of on-line courses. Probably in the form of spam emails and banner ads. Until recently they’ve been relatively expensive and not very highly regarded.
Over the last few months a large number of heavyweight universities have entered the playing field in a big way. Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Edinburgh, U.Penn, U. Michigan, U. Virginia, U. Washington, Caltech and a host of other universities have all unveiled completely free offerings using the shared Coursera platform. Harvard, MIT and now Berkeley have teamed up to unveil EDx, a suite of completely free top level courses that promise the added bonus of interactivity. The courses will obviously lack important elements for some disciplines such as lab time and one-to-one tuition however if these courses are able to capitalise on their interactive potential they could even prove to be more conducive to learning than traditional methods in many respects.
The giddying introductory video to MIT’s flagship computer science course set for launch in October:
The Edx project trailer (which the title from this piece was pinched from):
Below is a complete compiled course list for both EDx and Coursera. I must admit I’ve got exceedingly button happy myself. It’s going to be an interesting year!
EDx:
Circuits and Electronics
MIT Sep 05, 2012
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
MIT Oct 01, 2012
Introduction to Computer Science I
Harvard Oct 15, 2012
(If you’d like a taster, check out Harvard’s current online comp-science offering here)
Health in Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Clinical & Public Health Research
HarvardX Oct 15, 2012
Coursera:
Jun 11th 2012
6 weeks long
6 weeks long
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1
Tim Roughgarden, Associate Professor
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Jul 23rd 2012
10 weeks long
10 weeks long
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World
Eric Rabkin
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE
Sep 24th 2012
Computer Vision: From 3D Reconstruction to Visual Recognition
Silvio Savarese, Assistant Professor
Fei-Fei Li, Assistant Professor
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
DUKE UNIVERSITY
October 2012
6 weeks long
6 weeks long
Vaccine Trials: Methods and Best Practices
Karen R. Charron, Amber Bickford Cox
October 2012
6 weeks long
6 weeks long
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2
Tim Roughgarden, Associate Professor
Oct 15th 2012
8 weeks long
8 weeks long
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Joe Warren, Scott Rixner, John Greiner, Stephen Wong
RICE UNIVERSITY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
January 2013
6 weeks long
6 weeks long
An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health
Robert S. Lawrence, Keeve Nachman
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
January 2013
5 weeks long
5 weeks long
E-learning and Digital Cultures
Jeremy Knox, Sian Bayne, Hamish Macleod, Jen Ross, Christine Sinclair
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
January 2013
5 weeks long
5 weeks long
Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences
Jerusalem Makonnen, RN, MSN, FNP
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
January 2013
6 weeks long
6 weeks long
Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Katie Clark, MPH, RD, CDE
Jan 28th 2013
7 weeks long
7 weeks long
Introduction to Philosophy
Dave Ward, Duncan Pritchard, Michela Massimi, Suilin Lavelle, Matthew Chrisman, Allan Hazlett, Alasdair Richmond
Jan 28th 2013
10 weeks long
10 weeks long
Introduction to Computer Networks
Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall, John Zahorjan
Jan 28th 2013
5 weeks long
5 weeks long
Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part I
Edward D. Hess
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
TBA
4 – 5 weeks long
4 – 5 weeks long
Cardiac Arrest, Hypothermia, and Resuscitation Science
Benjamin Abella, MD MPhil
TBA
Introduction to Genome Science
John Hogenesch, John Isaac Murray
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
TBA
8 weeks long
8 weeks long
Natural Language Processing
Dan Jurafsky, Professor. Christopher Manning, Associate Professor
TBA
7 weeks long
7 weeks long
Game Theory
Matthew O. Jackson, Professor
Yoav Shoham, Professor
Sera communiqué ultérieurement
8 semaines/weeks long
8 semaines/weeks long
Introduction à la Programmation Objet (in French)
Enseignant: Sera communiqué ultérieurement
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