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I've taken several coursera courses and maybe the good ones are hiding in there somewhere but I'm really unimpressed by the ones I've seen.
by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I've taken several coursera courses and maybe the good ones are hiding in there somewhere but I'm really unimpressed by the ones I've seen.
- Simucal 13y agoWhich courses have you taken? I've completed the Machine Learning course and I'm currently taking Cryptography 1 from Coursera. They both have been great.
- jjoonathan 13y agoMachine Learning, Drug Development, Nuclear Energy, VLSI: Logic to Layout, Computer Architecture, and Analytical Chemistry were all somewhere between "good" and "great" in my book. ML and NE were aimed at non-specialists and weren't rigorous. Maybe that's the objection?
- sanskritabelt 13y agoThat's part of it, yeah, lots of courses out there but they tend to be things like survey courses, etc. Some of this is that the video content turns out to be the equivalent of only a 1 or 2 credit course.
- sanskritabelt 13y agoThere's a Stanford professor that has the videos from his class about the Fourier Transform on youtube, go compare that to (just about?) anything on Coursera.
- jjoonathan 13y agoIt's unfair to criticize Coursera for having survey courses if they also have deep courses, which they do. It would be nice if they had more, but that's not really a criticism.
- vacri 13y agoI've had fun with the intro to python courses, but on searching around, there's not a lot for intermediate-level classes in the several topics I've looked for.