[Hamara-devel] Re: Have people tried coursera and other such MOOC sites ?

[shirish]

addition at bottom :-

On 05/21/2015 08:08 PM, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently tried out coursera because one of my friends had tried it out
> and had a good opinion. Co-incidentally came to know about coursera-dl
> which is a download manager for Videos from the Coursera website for
> oneself.
>
> It took me sometime to figure out how the system works, see :-
>
> https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera/issues/340
>
> but once I knew how, went across to a friend's place who has high
> bandwidth and was able to download the same course from his end in
> around 2-3 hours, the whole thing came to 7-8 GB for the single course
> for the on-demand recommend course.
>
> Co-incidentally or not, rbrito or Roger brito is a DD and he is thinking
> of packaging coursera-dl for Debian as well.
>
> I have lost the link atm but apparently there are third-party service
> providers who have partnered with coursera, they download the courses +
> web-pages and sell them to students with some mark-up to the courses
> mentioned in local currency. If I find those links again will surely
> forward them.
>
> This is directed more as in a higher-education product but could still
> be useful as well.
>
> I have seen some pretty interesting courses on the coursera site,
> although there are quite a few competing MOOC's out there as well.
>
> Look forward to knowing what you all think.

Found this, interesting as well

https://chronicle.com/article/Providers-of-Free-MOOCs-Now/136117/

While I don't necessarily think that MOOC's will be end-all of education 
or pedagogy there is possibility of finding interesting content and 
perhaps adding those to our repertoire. The education-headhunter service 
is also something that we could evolve once we are in business 
ourselves. When and how we should do that is matter of timing, strategy, 
management bandwidth, the works. For now though, have to work towards 
getting an .iso that can be tested among other things.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org