I might take the class in the first link because one of the course members is none other than Captain Jean-Luc Picard.. heh
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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:353284 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
