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Re:Stanford to host more online classes by frobozz on Thursday November 17, 2011 @04:32AM (#3247041)
What kind of time commitment does it require?
Re:Stanford to host more online classes by larrykubin on Thursday November 17, 2011 @05:18AM (#3247139)
I started out spending closer to 10 hours a week earlier on in the AI course. We initially had a local meetup and I spent more time reading the textbook for the first few units. Had to scale it back to 5 or so hours, which is good enough to get through it, but not enough to spend extra time discussing with others, reading supplementary materials, and coding.
Re:Stanford to host more online classes by lambada on Thursday November 17, 2011 @04:46AM (#3247074)
For me it took 3 or 4 hours a week per course. It doesn't sound like much, but pre-arranged plans made it hard to find a decent sized piece of time (>1 hr) in which to do the work.
Re:Stanford to host more online classes by frobozz on Thursday November 17, 2011 @05:05AM (#3247119)
Thanks. This is the critical nugget of information missing from the course information pages (unless I'm just lacking in observation skills).
Re:Stanford to host more online classes by egor83 on Thursday November 17, 2011 @04:52AM (#3247088)
For me it was maybe 5-6 hours per week (for AI course).

It was quite intensive thinking, though, really requiring concentration and effort; the courses themselves (ie just video) were maybe about 1 hour per unit, and there were two units per week.

Re:Stanford to host more online classes by adestefan on Thursday November 17, 2011 @11:43AM (#3248210)
I've put about 2-4 hours a week into the ML class. However, I know that math (basic linear algebra and calculus so far) and have done scientific computing before so I can churn the exercises out pretty quick. The exercises are the best part. It's nice having a set of problems to work on instead of just watching an hours worth of videos each week.