Wow. I so thought this group would find this cool. Especially the Ruby on Rails class.
meh. On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Erika L. Rich <elr...@ruwebby.com> wrote: > Harvard, Berkely and MIT are offering a few heavy duty courses online, for > free. Successful completion gets you a nice little certificate to brag > over. I noticed that several (if not all) of the courses offered are > actually the online course offered at the actual school for big bucks. So > these are not simply pared down, lightweight freebies. > > This one looks particularly interesting for those that want to dip their > toe into a fast paced structured look at SaaS > https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/CS169.1x/2012_Fall/about > > This is the exact course being offered by Harvard Extension right now for > the fall semester. Cost $2000. You can take it for free here: > https://www.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/CS50x/2012/about > > The other Harvard course is also available for cost (and credit) at > Harvard Extension. > > It's a pretty cool initiative. Check it out. > > "EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard > University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features > learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Based on > a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions, the > founders are creating a new distance-learning experience. Anant Agarwal, > former Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence > Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX. Along with offering > online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students > learn and how technology can transform learningboth on-campus and > worldwide. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT > and Harvard." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353280 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
