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In reply to the discussion: Free on-line classes from MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and more [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,060 posts)24. I'm currently enrolled in ER22x
"Justice" at Harvardx - a philosophy class. I'm not putting anywhere near the time into it (but that was true of "soft" classes I took in college as well). It is good and interesting - but I'm just doing it for fun.
I took CS50x because I needed to update some of my programming knowledge in connection with analyzing whether a patent granted in the mid-90s was for something that was really newly invented. I could have dropped the course about halfway through - or just listened to the lectures - but I was having enough fun I decided to stick it out.
The stats for the class are kind of fun: https://blog.cs50.net/2013/05/01/0/
As is the heat map with links to videos of each of the final projects: https://expo.cs50.net/
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Can be very useful for personal edification, but not college credit in most cases.
aikoaiko
May 2013
#2
I actually prefer the concept of taking classes to learn rather than to earn a degree.
NYC_SKP
May 2013
#8
It's interesting that a similar "revolution" was proposed when tv/radio became popular...
Sancho
May 2013
#20
Open Courseware Consortium -to offer certification and college credit for online courses.......
Ghost in the Machine
May 2013
#40