Would anyone here try one of these courses?

aligator_am

Firstly, mods, I'd say this may not be the correct location for the thread but I couldn't see a relevant location in the Edu section, also hopefully some folks will see it here and maybe they'll give it a shot.

I read about this a while back but it seems M.I.T. and Harvard Universities are in the process of offering some of their courses free online, from what I understand you don't get a degree but if you pay a fee you will receive official accreditation but I'm not 100% on that.

Looks like the course options are very limited at the moment but they are slowly releasing more courses, hopefully it would be a good way for folk here to motivate and educate themselves, and sure it's free so it's not like you're down thousands of Euro

Anyway, the site is https://www.edx.org/courses hopefully it's of use to someone here.

pm1977x

Looks interesting, never heard of this, cheers!

Where To

Signed up to all of them.

If only my Mammy was still alive to see me enrolled in Harvard, MIT and Berkley all at the one time.:)

aligator_am

Where To wrote: »

Signed up to all of them.

If only my Mammy was still alive to see me enrolled in Harvard, MIT and Berkley all at the one time.:)

Have signed up to the introduction to computer science one, am afraid if I sign up for too many me brain will melt

Samich

Thought this was about golf

aligator_am

Samich wrote: »

Thought this was about golf

I roared laughing at your post but felt bad at the same time, sorry

Samich

aligator_am wrote: »

I roared laughing at your post but felt bad at the same time, sorry

Nothing to be sorry about

Pilotdude5

Signed up. I am now a Health sciences Student at Harvard. Class starts Oct 15, 2012.

Lando Griffin

Hopefully the agency formally known as FAS will send out a few representatives to see just how much these courses are.

kfallon

Ffs thought the OP was gonna cook for us, fookin' starvin' too

brummytom

Signed up a few weeks back. So, yes.

Boombastic

Pilotdude5 wrote: »

Signed up. I am now a Health sciences Student at Harvard. Class starts Oct 15, 2012.

Me too, along with computer science:pac:

aligator_am

brummytom wrote: »

Signed up a few weeks back. So, yes.

Good stuff, from what I've seen there's not a lot of advertisement for this, was hoping it would be of use to some folk, and hopefully it will be

Out of interest, what course did ye sign up to?

aligator_am

Boombastic wrote: »

Me too, along with computer science:pac:

Lol, lash it straight on the CV

eth0

No. Not into e-learning courses.

aligator_am

eth0 wrote: »

No. Not into e-learning courses.

Fair enough, I can imagine that it's fairly difficult to motivate yerself to get stuck in, I know what I'm like, if I've something to do and I stick on the kettle, whatever was meant to be done suddenly becomes tomorrow's work

Sure I'll give the course a try, I'll let ye all know either way, haha sure the slagging I get may make it in to the legendary boards thread

marnie d

On the computer science one at Harvard, some of the lecturers are really young and cute! Why can't they make them like that in Ireland!! Think I'll sign up too.

eth0

aligator_am wrote: »

Fair enough, I can imagine that it's fairly difficult to motivate yerself to get stuck in, I know what I'm like, if I've something to do and I stick on the kettle, whatever was meant to be done suddenly becomes tomorrow's work

Sure I'll give the course a try, I'll let ye all know either way, haha sure the slagging I get may make it in to the legendary boards thread

Whatever course I'd pick would lead me to becoming the world's greatest tea drinker

aligator_am

marnie d wrote: »

On the computer science one at Harvard, some of the lecturers are really young and cute! Why can't they make them like that in Ireland!! Think I'll sign up too.

You should probably check if a web cam is a prerequisite for the course.

aligator_am

eth0 wrote: »

Whatever course I'd pick would lead me to becoming the world's greatest tea drinker

Ah man don't start, I'm fairly sure that if I ever donate blood then it will be in Insomnia or Starbucks!

marnie d

aligator_am wrote: »

You should probably check if a web cam is a prerequisite for the course.

I don't have one!! But I may as well learn more about computers, I use them all day for feck's sake! I love the way the titles on two of them are 'Head Teaching Fellow', could they not have thought of a better title?!!

BASHIR

Two of my friends did the Artificial intelligence course. they said they learned loads. Iv no clue about it other than that sorry OP. But I doubt it could hurt if you have spare time on your hands.

kowloon

marnie d wrote: »

On the computer science one at Harvard, some of the lecturers are really young and cute! Why can't they make them like that in Ireland!! Think I'll sign up too.

We have young and cute people teaching all the courses. They're called postgrads.

Lapin

Samich wrote: »

Thought this was about golf

I thought it was about Horse Racing.

shoos

If you have the discipline, there's a huge amount of resources online through e-learning.

You only have to look here: http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

TG860

There's another similar site with a lot more options and similar universities called Class Central

Ficheall

Here's another with a few more options:
https://www.coursera.org/

omg applied cryptography
gime

Nulty

bluewolf wrote: »

omg applied cryptography
gime

I did that last time it was available...its not easy by any stretch of the imagination. If your already committed to a course irl, be prepared to make plenty of time available.

Btw, coursera.org

Lollipops23

I signed up for Computer Science. I'd love to see health science or cryptology, but can't see them on the page??

Nulty

Nulty wrote: »

I did that last time it was available...its not easy by any stretch of the imagination. If your already committed to a course irl, be prepared to make plenty of time available.

Btw, coursera.org

of course it's not easy where's the fun in that

Professional Griefer

Already doing a CS course..do another on the internet.

:P

Lollipops23

I signed up for Computer Science. I'd love to see health science or cryptology, but can't see them on the page??

charlietheminxx

This is really interesting..... I've never done e-learning before. I'd love to hear some opinions on what it's like and how much you actually learn....

holystungun9

eth0 wrote: »

No. Not into e-learning courses.

Me neither. It is the equivalent to having a course book where you know that at the back there is a section on sexy birds having sex.

RacoonQueen

Where To wrote: »

Signed up to all of them.

If only my Mammy was still alive to see me enrolled in Harvard, MIT and Berkley all at the one time.:)

https://www.coursera.org/

Make her real proud with Princeton, Stanford and Duke aswell.

Colmustard

To right I would thanks for the link.

biko

Poster RUCKING FETARD did a good collection of courses here that almost no-one saw.

Colmustard

biko wrote: »

Poster RUCKING FETARD did a good collection of courses here that almost no-one saw.

Thanks for that link.

jester77

Courses here, some are very good:

http://www.udacity.com/
http://www.khanacademy.org/

JohnMarston

There must be some sort of a catch, like your qualification being useless

JohnMarston

JohnMarston wrote: »

There must be some sort of a catch, like your qualification being useless

it's about learning, not the qualification
i don't think you get one

narfsnonsense

Thanks for that. Just signed up for Introduction to Sustainability.

JohnMarston

bluewolf wrote: »

it's about learning, not the qualification
i don't think you get one

Figured as much about a minute after i posted

Seems like a fantastic resource actually

I-Shot-Jr

I signed up for the Harvard computer science course. You do get a certificate at the end so at least there is some kind of qualification involved. I am lucky enough to have gotten my foot in the door with a giant web company already without qualifications so this will be a great to have, a nice cert from a renowned school basically proving I have knowledge. It will also be able to test me, I'd love to do a degree part time in the evenings however I'm not sure if I can commit. I reckon if I can stick with this then I'll know whether or not I'd be able to commit to a four year program.

Lollipops23

Lollipops23 wrote: »

I signed up for Computer Science. I'd love to see health science or cryptology, but can't see them on the page??

Oh they are there, you just have to answer the clues first...

Sykk

Damn some of those look tempting. A pity I'm already working and studying Maybe next year!

readyletsgo

This is pretty interesting, thanks for the link OP!

One thing, there is not too many details on the courses on the site, is there any more details on each course and what it intails? Just a couple of details to the right on each course.

Has anyone done one of these, from this website, before?

SusieBlue

I've just signed up for a few, thanks so much to everyone for posting the links.

I understand that there is no qualification at the end, but what do you get? An email confirming you did the course? A cert? Or nothing? :P

Pdfile

signed up, hopefully i can get a fetac lvl 3 outta this.

jackie1974

I came across that site a few months ago, it sounds great. So many e learning courses charge ridiculous fees so for anybody with time on their hands and not much money, which is half the country at the moment, that is the way to go.