[Year 12 SofDev] Free online course

[Claudia Graham]

Hi all,

Received this from someone today and thought it was worth passing on.


Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, peer-to-peer forum discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed and, most importantly, absorbed.  Daphne Koller is bringing courses from top colleges online, free for anyone who wants to take them. Full bio ><http://www.ted.com/speakers/daphne_koller.html>
We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity ... by actually talking with them." (Daphne Koller)


http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html


You might want to enrol straight away? Follow the link!                  https://www.coursera.org/


I had a quick look and Princeton has a course starting in two days on Algorithms.. but there are a number of other IT related courses.

Regards
Claudia
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