Re:University of Reddit
by QuantumGuy on Monday August 20, 2012 @05:06PM
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In that event there is always https://www.coursera.org/ or https://www.edx.org if the university of reddit doesn't pan out.
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Coursera is awesome. I'm 4 weeks into an introductory finance class and professor Kaul is doing such a good job of introducing concepts to us (I have no finance background).
I second that. I am following the same course and while I have some prior finance training this is nevertheless very useful to better understand some stuff I simply applied before. Great, great stuff.
Yes the Finance class is going well for me too. I tried taking the SaaS class but I didn't like it.
The Finance professor is just right, I can watch the videos on 1.75x speed, and I'm finally getting the hang of the confusing, unintuitive and restrictive Coursera UI.
Udacity has some challenges as UReddit too. I took a "software testing" class recently, and you can tell the instructor ended the course earlier than planned.
A 6 week class was effectively only a 3-4 week class. The first two weeks had embedded quizzes, and homework. By the end, it was watch this short video and no homework.