Free Online Courses From Top Universities (Coursera.org)

[Crushdepth]

Thought people might be interested in this: A bunch of top universities have got together to offer online training courses for FREE (www.coursera.org). There are about 200 courses available at the moment, including quite a few related to IT, engineering and robotics. Lectures are typically delivered via downloadable video recordings and assessment is via weekly homework which you submit online.

While current offerings are free, its pretty clear they'll eventually be offering full degrees this way (probably not for free). Regardless, this is going to totally disrupt higher education IMHO and I encourage those with an interest to check it out.

I am doing the intro cryptography course at the moment, so far I'm very impressed with the quality of the lessons, but the homework is a bitch!

[WilliaminBKK]

This is very interesting, I've never done an online course before and I've often wanted to sample something of interest. I think I've found one or two-many thanks for sharing.

[davejones]

Thanks for sharing. I'm going to take a look at this.

[ianwuk]

I am currently doing my degree online with a British university here in Bangkok, with exams at The British Council, it works well.

Thanks very much for this, I will take a look.

[mindo]

I am currently doing my degree online with a British university here in Bangkok, with exams at The British Council, it works well.

Thanks very much for this, I will take a look.

Do you mind to disclose the university because I've being looking for the same thing

[bangkockney]

Doing the machine learning course, which is pretty challenging to be honest.

I'm doing some self-study maths alongside it - I was bad at maths at school and have always wanted to rectify that.

Having to learn another programming environment at the same time is also slowing things down. I find Octave difficult - worked solutions to the homework ala Udacity would be a great improvement IMO.

So yeah, it's tough going but highly rewarding.

[Crushdepth]

Maths, statistics and calculus are on my agenda too (there's a precalculus course, I'll start there). It's been a loooong time, so I have to work pretty hard at the crypto course to keep up and find the proofs somewhat mind-wrenching.

I am really looking forward to the mobile robotics course - I just started messing around with Arduino and various sensors. Very keen to get involved in several open hardware projects - especially the OpenROV (just looks amazing) and OpenPilot stuff.

[mamypoko]

Did the AI course from Stanford - believe it was their first offering. If you're looking for something less formal, the Khan Academy is a fantastic resource.

[Tywais]

I am really looking forward to the mobile robotics course - I just started messing around with Arduino and various sensors. Very keen to get involved in several open hardware projects - especially the OpenROV (just looks amazing) and OpenPilot stuff.

I'm going to take a peek there also. Do a lot of micro designs but use PIC rather than Atmel controllers and design my own boards and sensing/detector systems generally with PICBasic or Proton basic and a smithering of ASM. Arduino language is interesting though.

Thanks to the OP for the information.

[harrry]

I am doing the History one at Coursera at the moment ....had a look at a couple from Udacity too which seemed interesting but a change from computer courses seemed in order now.

[jbrain]

I was also interested in such an online course, but have already serious issues to understand most of what is written in the posts above, so now I'm not so sure anymore if it's such a good idea for me