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This is a general issue i have seen as well. We live in 2018 and there is no open source course for everything. Instead there are probably 10-30k universities
by sigi45 9y ago
This is a general issue i have seen as well.
We live in 2018 and there is no open source course for everything. Instead there are probably 10-30k universities who have similar courses and professors who give the same lecture every year.
They get paid often enough by countries to create and do those courses. In germany most of our unversities are paid by all of us germans anyway.
And what do you find online? Always the starter verion like 101 computer science or videos with bad audio or video, no proper exercises, no solution helper etc. Nothing. You have to go to different sites to sometimes pay or sometimes not.
there are no local locations to meet up with people.
There should be a global initiative for global free and open access learning. Sponsored and supported by companies and countries. Build upon a core of a knowledge graph based on topics or 'snippets of knowledge'. Like for example:
math -> add -> sub
Something like 'The Map of Mathematics' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJ-4B-mS-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJ-4B-mS-Y)
And when you wanna get the global accepted math 101 level, you have to take specific topics / snippets.
And those snippets can than be filled with different people who are making a lecture for that topic and you can choose whom you like more or who is better in explaining it to you.
What do i do instead? I ask around for the lecture scripts because they are always behind a simple password protected area or have multiple links to different pages of different universietses who offer different courses for free as videos for there students in sometimes/often bad quality and / or bad video players etc.
It sucks and this is stupid.
- rmorey 9y ago>There should be a global initiative for global free and open access learning. Sponsored and supported by companies and countries. Build upon a core of a knowledge graph based on topics or 'snippets of knowledge'. I like this idea and the framing of it a lot
- dpflan 9y agoHave you seen this? Does this meet your criteria/have enough sufficient resources/curriculum? > http://datasciencemasters.org/ http://datasciencemasters.org/
- sigi45 9y agoNope, not at all. I'm not looking for the next github page with collections of tons of different sites with different courses. I still hope for one platform where all those smart people out there are working together to optimize learning.
- tyu100 9y agoI forget if its the Verge or some other popular podcast but they are always suggesting Apple just put together a fully open and accredited online university. The problem is that there are a lot of people getting paid a lot of money all over the world to work in post-secondary education whom control the keys to accreditation and whom have proven very resilient at resisting any optimization efforts.
- JoshMnem 9y agoApple isn't open. Their stuff has tended to not work on Linux.
- solarkraft 9y agoI don't see why one would need Apple to do it. A consortium would be much better and more likely.
- Bombthecat 9y agoApple is big enough to piss away one billion dollar and create a crazy good online University. Also need done good pr I guess :)
- Double_a_92 9y agoCheck out khanacademy.
- YPBS 9y agoHere is a list of CS courses including many graduate level courses: https://github.com/Developer-Y/cs-video-courses https://github.com/Developer-Y/cs-video-courses