The Olympics are on. I have _no_ free cycles to read emails. I have been signed up to the MIT courses, and have taken a number of them, for about 2 years.
They are awesome. Thank you for the link! On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is, just way too too busy right now. > > BTW you need to check out the classes they have on neuroscience. Way cool. > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Erika L. Rich <elr...@ruwebby.com> wrote: >> >> 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 learningåoth 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:353283 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
