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Old 01-11-2019, 06:05 PM
morls (Stephen)
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Old 02-11-2019, 01:52 PM
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If I may add a suggestion to check out this website as well. https://www.edx.org/


I assisted in teaching the first couple classes during the prototype run back in 2012/13. It's grown from about 27,000 students during the second prototype run to over 15 million people today. Something I am particularly proud of contributing a small part to.



It's quite polished now with a lot more of the big named schools involved. It originated as M.I.T./Harvard initiative starting with one class, I think we are now over 2,000 classes being offered. Its the real deal.
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Old 02-11-2019, 07:26 PM
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Hi spaceout,
I can see why you'd be proud to be involved, looks great.

These kinds of projects remind me of the positive things humanity is capable of.
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Old 06-11-2019, 05:34 AM
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Interesting...
Couple of years ago I (and couple of others from this forum) did Coursera's free course "Introduction to Astronomy" (Duke Uni, Prof. Ronen Plesser).

There was also one from Edinburgh Uni, but nothing since.
I will certainly look at this
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