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Coursera courses preserved by Archive Team
- enraged_camel 10y agoMaybe I'm missing something here... but where are the actual course titles?
- mihaitodor 10y agoThat's something that I'm currently trying to understand myself. I haven't yet found what exactly is contained in those WARC files...
- detaro 10y agoWARC files are raw recordings of crawler runs, including HTTP headers and other metadata. The raw, archival result of the downloads, that you can extract the files downloaded from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
- noufalibrahim 10y agoDuring my time at the Internet Archive when we were working the wayback machine and related stuff, we wrote an arc/warc python library to parse and unpack these files. The library is over here https://github.com/internetarchive/warc https://github.com/internetarchive/warc. Just in case anyone is interested.
- vram22 10y agoThat sounds like it could be useful. Thanks, Noufal.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoAlso, https://github.com/ikreymer/webarchiveplayer https://github.com/ikreymer/webarchiveplayer
- mihaitodor 10y agoYeah, but they claim that "URLs are directly available in the Wayback Machine too" over here: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Coursera http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Coursera What I don't get is which URLs...
- detaro 10y agoI guess if you go directly to the URL for a course/video via the wayback machine you get the content as well?
- mihaitodor 10y agoSo far, I couldn't find any one that works, but maybe I'm missing something :(
- deftnerd 10y agoI think this is just the unorganized data dumps direct from the archive team. Most likely someone will now go through and combine all the dumps and make it more usable and put it at a different URL
- enraged_camel 10y agoI see. That makes sense, thanks. :)
- ipsum2 10y agoArchive.org does amazing work, I would highly recommend donating to them if you can.
- ris 10y agoThe actual _work_ done here was by ArtchiveTeam, which is not the same thing. Archive.org are just doing the hosting of the end-results.
- white-flame 10y agoIt's great that there's a central place for this, at least once it's organized sensibly. The stupidest, most counter-productive aspect of all these MOOC systems is the artificial schedule imposed on the course. While I've been able to take a couple to completion, I've had to let some by the wayside due to scheduling. Once that happens, you're disincentivized to catch up because of being behind and those that affect scoring. When I've gone back to finish courses that I had to leave by the wayside for the moment, sometimes I've lost access to the materials because the course has shifted to its next "semester". There's absolutely no reason for that. While there are a few courses like music or writing where you are collaborating or cross-reviewing other people's work, most of them are standalone lectures, homework, and tests.
- pyromine 10y agoCoursera actually has a solution to this and it involves rolling over from your enrolled session in to a later one. To tell you the truth, I find it a great system because it gives me a sense of the time frame I should realistically be completed the course. Although, at the same time I tend to do deep dives on a course and complete them as fast as possible blowing past the schedule anyways. If you don't want to subscribe to a self-imposed schedule the audit option basically allows you to learn the material on your own time.
- VLM 10y agoYes and some of the data science courses seem to be offered weekly, at minimum monthly. At least the courses I took. Something that annoys me is courses that are listed in the course list but were once and done and never coming back, or "maybe someday" classes.
- userbinator 10y agoThe stupidest, most counter-productive aspect of all these MOOC systems is the artificial schedule imposed on the course. I think that comes from imitating "physical" courses, which are designed to be completed in a predetermined amount of time. As the sibling comment alludes to, it also gives some motivation for actually finishing them.
- peatfreak 10y agoYou know what would be AMAZING? If there was a Coursera course (or some other MOOC course, books, etc) that explains how archive.org works from the foundational technologies upwards. So, like, you could build your own mini version of archive.org as an exercise. It'd be a fascinating project and could be a great case study in web archiving techniques and information retrieval. Does anything like this exist already?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoNot yet, but if you ask, I assure you Archive.org peeps are going to see it in this thread.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoAnd then archive.org could archive it, and you would achieve inception.
- philippnagel 10y agoIs there a way to torrent/mirror the data from archive.org? Storing all of it in a central repository seems counter-intuitive to me.
- detaro 10y agoIndividual pieces have torrent links. (And there probably are scripts to fetch an entire category somewhere...)
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- nym 10y agoArchive.org accepts all kinds of donations. https://archive.org/donate/ https://archive.org/donate/ Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin. Brewster is an amazing Steward of the Internet Archive. Video Tour: https://vimeo.com/59207751 https://vimeo.com/59207751
- satyajeet23 10y agoThat's really amazing.
- marai2 10y agoThis is incredible, I was just on the Coursera website trying to go to my old courses to continue from where I've left off, but I couldn't get to them. The link to my previously enrolled courses was taking me to the newer version of those courses which haven't started yet. So I thought I'll search HN because I remember reading that someone was archiving these ... and boom! it's the top link on the front page! Yay HackerNews!!! There is some Voodoo-AI going on at HN!
- marai2 10y agoIf anyone wants a quick index of the courses in those 45G webarchive files here is the index of course slugs. Unfortunately it looks like the webarchive slugs don't match the Coursera slugs anymore so I couldn't pair the names with more readable course titles: https://gist.github.com/marai2/b548ce70b6af4789522c6ef5e54c6bbf https://gist.github.com/marai2/b548ce70b6af4789522c6ef5e54c6...
- mihaitodor 10y agoThose slugs that you extracted don't seem to be correct. I wanted to match them with the ones from here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kaWxZG3krI83WfdzlExWL-_S5UBai-CYuofGR5DZcd0/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=1433118913 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kaWxZG3krI83WfdzlExW...
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- eru_melkor 10y agohttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oTmD5K560U2oBbLlerXq-HMSYMXkpiKQyHneZs7SiWQ/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oTmD5K560U2oBbLlerXq...
- mihaitodor 10y agoAh, nevermind. They just had some extra spaces. Here you go: https://gist.github.com/mihaitodor/b0d8c8dd824ab936c057508edec377ad https://gist.github.com/mihaitodor/b0d8c8dd824ab936c057508ed... I also included the quick script I used to generate them, for convenience.
- dhawalhs 10y agoFor those unaware, Coursera shutdown their old platform on Jun 30th [1]. Many of the courses on the old platform are slowly coming back on the new platform. When I built the list [2] of courses on the old platform the course count was 472, now its around 390. Some of the notables that I was excited to see come back are: Neural Networks for Machine Learning with Geoffrey Hinton [3] Computer Architecture from Princeton [4] Programming Languages from UW by Dan Grossman [5] Introduction to Natural Language Processing by Dragomir Radev [6] Many of these courses were last offered a couple of years ago. Hopefully more courses form the list [2] start coming back. [1] https://www.class-central.com/report/coursera-old-platform-shutdown-download-courses/ https://www.class-central.com/report/coursera-old-platform-s... [2] https://www.class-central.com/collection/coursera-old-stack-all https://www.class-central.com/collection/coursera-old-stack-... [3] https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks [4] https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch [5] https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages [6] https://www.coursera.org/learn/natural-language-processing https://www.coursera.org/learn/natural-language-processing
- sharmi 10y agoAll the names are 'Coursera Curses' instead of 'Coursera Courses'. Someone there must have been really upset with Coursera's approach :) .
- ttam 10y agoand the title of the page is "Archive Team: The Coursea Curse" Coursea Curse :p
- gameofdrones 10y agoYup, totally worthless, token effort.
- beardicus 10y agoMost Archive Team efforts are given a punny name (at least for the associated IRC channel), usually the offending organization's name twisted into something mildly negative. Coursera > #cursera, Soundcloud > #soundclown, etc.
- reachtarunhere 10y agoIt is great that someone decided to act on it.
- govindpatel 10y agoHow can i use this? Those file are so big. Is there is any way I can download only courses which I want?
- unreal37 10y agoThis is a collection of torrent links of copyrighted material? Is that right? I guess I'm asking, how is this legal?
- tgarma1234 10y agoI have taken a couple of Coursera courses on R and Stats. They basically give you a brief outline of some topics you might want to pursue more in depth and they give you access to a discussion forum. I haven't found that this method of learning/teaching is very useful. There seems to me to be a huge opportunity waiting to be developed if someone can make a site like that but with more interactive elements AND where the learning/teaching is based on sound educational principles that can be demonstrated to effectively result in skills mastery. As it is now, Coursera is basically skimming cash off of the internet's insatiable google searching for information, like for example someone might google "Learn R" and then fall into the trap of paying $49 for a class that consists of nothing but videos really without having a clue about whether or not the videos really work to communicate knowledge or even whether the videos are touching on anything meaningful. If it hadn't been for the "Johns Hopkins Data Science Course" branding on the class I signed up for I wouldn't have fallen for it I am sure.
- mindcrime 10y agoIf it hadn't been for the "Johns Hopkins Data Science Course" branding on the class I signed up for I wouldn't have fallen for it I am sure. Just to provide a counter-point.. I've taken 5 or 6 of the classes in that sequence, and have found them well worth every penny I've spent so far. Probably you could argue that the same information is available elsewhere for free, but the classes have worked for me, and the way I study and learn. Obviously YMMV, but they've been a bargain from my perspective. I think because, if nothing else, they provide some structure, sequencing and a token measure of accountability... whereas if I just said "Hey, I'm going to teach myself R from this book" it would be a lot easier to loaf around, waste time reading HN instead of studying, etc. That said, I don't argue against the idea that online learning could still be better. In fact, I don't think we've even come close to tapping the full potential of this stuff.
- jclos 10y agoI agree with you, while they are far from the optimal to consume something there is always some need for alternative ways of learning, if only to address the variety of people who would like to learn. I find that I retain content better when I learn it in multiple ways (explore using MOOCs and podcasts about it, go deeper into it using books and practical work if applicable) and I'm sure it's the same for most people.
- avodonosov 10y agoI would pay several dollars to keep some courses I took in their original form (even archived form, no new edits or posts). I guess many other course participants would too. That might be a source of income for coursera, probably enough to cover operational expenses of running the old platform with old content.
- Rondom 10y agoIf you want to help Archive Team in its efforts to preserve disappearing content and have some bandwidth to spare: Run an "Archive Team Warrior"-Appliance! This way you can help downloading all this content that is about to disappear! Or do you have some Digital Ocean promotional credits left, that are about to expire? Spin up a (few) VMs with docker-containers running the warrior on DigitalOcean! http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior
- yq 10y agoI started the warrior VM after seen this message. However it seems whatever they are crawling cannot handle this type of mass distributed crawler, for the past few hours My computer haven't done anything.
- Joof 10y agoThank god. Geoffrey Hinton's RMSProp for deep neural networks is still cited in papers from his slide on his coursera course (the only place it was published AFAIK). It would be a shame to lose that forever.
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- RCortex 10y agoDoes anyone know if they archived the webpages, assignments, and quizzes too? Or did they just manage to download the lecture videos? I'll try downloading it myself and checking, but I don't have the fastest internet connection.
- mihaitodor 10y agoI believe they grabbed everything. Do a quick search through this script: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/coursera-grab/blob/master/coursera.lua https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/coursera-grab/blob/master/cou... If you manage to download one of the archives, please let me know what exactly is contained in it.
- chris_wot 10y agoWhilst I hate some aspects to MOOCs, the fact is that I spent about $120 to learn the basics if SAP, whereas if I'd gotten "proper" training on the same subject matter it would have cost me thousands. I'd love to see a site that specialises in user contributed content along the lines of Wikipedia. It's funny though - take SAP as an example: I'd be just as happy reading a book that explains it all better than what is out there right now! A book that assumes you are into technology but have little skills or knowledge of the business processes that SAP gets intoned in, and which gives you a rundown of this before giving a detailed rundown on how SAP implements these processes. Sadly, no such thing exists, but happily for me I stumbled upon http://www.accountingverse.com/ http://www.accountingverse.com/ and http://www.accountingcoach.com/ http://www.accountingcoach.com/ (no, I'm not affiliated with them in any way) and it turns out they didn't cost anything and I finally "get" double-entry book keeping, financial transaction concepts like the general ledger, journal, accrual method and the fundamental accounting equation. Wish I'd known this earlier to be honest - as I say, I lament that there are no books on SAP core modules that go from concepts to the nuts and bolts of how SAP does things :-(
- suyash 10y agoHow to tell which class is it though? The title doesn't give away.
- mihaitodor 10y agoHave a look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12062989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12062989
- coderdude 10y agoHas this archive been licensed properly? None of the other comments brought this up that I saw and the site doesn't appear to mention licensing whatsoever (which is very odd). I like archive.org but they've always seemed to have had a whatever stance towards licensing and copyright. Is this santioned or just a wild west effort?
- beardicus 10y agoThe Internet Archive is a library, and thus has a bit more flexibility regarding copyright issues. They also tend to have a "save it first and answer takedown notices after" philosophy. The Archive Team (not an official Internet Archive organization,) doesn't give a shit about copyright, or rather they ignore it in a pragmatic effort to save more content.
- 616c 10y agoI will now commit to myself and make it known here: If I am forced to buy one of these new Coursera certs, I will donate every time to the Archive Team.
- gameofdrones 10y agoWelcome to encouraging bitrot.
- united893 10y agoIs anyone able to navigate this at all? I'm looking for Pedro Domingo's machine learning course. https://class.coursera.org/machlearning-001 https://class.coursera.org/machlearning-001 I know there are others but I really like his method of teaching, and can't seem to be able to find an archive of it.