Coursera: New, free courses Similar to MIT OCW

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<p>Princeton, Stanford, Michigan and Pennsylvania have started a new, free set of courses similar to the MIT OCW except with professors actually teaching the material. Seems like an awesome idea to me.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.coursera.org/%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.coursera.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>One of my old math professors is teaching calculus on it this fall. If anyone feels they need to brush up, I would definitely suggest taking his class. He was one of the best professors I ever had.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/calcsing%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.coursera.org/course/calcsing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Also check out [Udacity</a> - Free Classes. Awesome Instructors. Inspiring Community.](<a href=“http://www.udacity.com/]Udacity”>http://www.udacity.com/)</p>

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<p>Vouch for Udacity. I started the first few weeks of their Google self-driving car class and it was amazing. I wish I could’ve finished it, but my real school got in the way, haha.</p>

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<p>Yeah, that’s pretty much what happens to me as well. These courses are all really cool, but I can’t afford to dedicate a lot of time to them when I have a full schedule of CS classes to take IRL.</p>

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<p>Can you use these online courses as credentials when applying to college…bc i know you get like a certificate or someting at the end of these courses right?</p>

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<p>You would have to ask them. All I know is that they are being offered and that the calculus professor is amazing. Can’t say much beyond that.</p>

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<p>I don’t think you can put these classes on a transcript or anything, but they’re certainly a nice EC. Taking challenging online courses always shows your motivation to learn.</p>

<p>I’m taking my first Coursera class (it just finished up, actually), and I really enjoyed it, so I can definitely vouch for “Model Thinking”. It was a really fascinating course, and I can’t recommend it enough. Any other gems found on Coursera?</p>