Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses 247
DeviceGuru writes "Stanford University will soon begin offering a series of 10 free, online computer science and electrical engineering courses. Initial courses will provide an introduction to computer science and an introduction to field of robotics, among other topics. The courses, offered under the auspices of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE), are nearly identical to standard courses offered to registered Stanford students and will comprise downloadable video lectures, handouts, assignments, exams, and transcripts. And get this: all the courses' materials are being released under the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license."
So what if you pass the courses? (Score:1, Funny)
You WILL have to pay the Stanford price for the degree, right, LOL! What a clever marketing scheme. Ya almost got me there. Welcome to Costco! I love you.
What a load of BS (CS) (Score:4, Funny)
"The Fourier Transform and its Applications" WTF!!
My employer's lawyers protect us from the liabilities of open source and I don't see the in-house tools I'm forced to use *anywhere* on Stanford's course listing!
How *exactly* are we supposed to find people with expertise in our proprietary crap if no one out there is teaching it???
Universities are soooo out of touch.
Re:Hmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'd be pissed. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'd be pissed. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What a load of BS (CS) (Score:2, Funny)
Guess I should keep my finger a bit farther from the reply key.
looks like you failed
Re:I'd be pissed. (Score:5, Funny)
I'd say an in-class experience, including talking with an instructor, graded homework, and the recognition (towards a degree) is quite a bit of value that ISN'T included in the online version.
Their two different beasts.
Totally agreed. I see that someone learned his homonyms via an online course.
Re:I'd be pissed. (Score:4, Funny)
Economic theory is almost always wrong when it predicts individual human behavior.
Re:IQ bell curve (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdotters are largely made up of people on the far right side of the bell curve distribution of intelligence.
Have you actually read any of the comments on slashdot?
Re:I'd be pissed. (Score:5, Funny)
Their two different beasts.
Totally agreed. I see that someone learned his homonyms via an online course.
I concur. Someone learned their vocabulary via an online course. Their/There/They're are homophones (same sound). Polish/polish and read/read are homographs (same spelling). Bank/bank and stalk/stalk are homonyms (same sound and same spelling). Homonyms are both homographs and homophones.
I attended my university linguistics courses in person.
Re:IQ bell curve (Score:3, Funny)
The solution is obvious: we need to work hard to increase the number of students above average!
Re:Hmm.... (Score:4, Funny)
The first qualification to run for President or any high US office--and I suspect this goes for any current republic/democracy--is that the applicant have no capability to feel guilt what-so-ever.
35! (Score:5, Funny)
They also have to be 35.
Re:Hmm.... (Score:2, Funny)
Personally, I'd argue that you haven't "Studied at Stanford" unless Stanford can issue a transcript with your name & the courses you've taken.
From TFS and TFA:
Each course comprises downloadable video lectures, handouts, assignments, exams, and transcripts.
Emphasis mine. I guess, personally, you could say you've "Studied at Stanford" if you take one of these courses.
Re:I'd be pissed. (Score:4, Funny)
(;-))
Re:35! (Score:2, Funny)
They also have to have an IQ of 35.
fixed