It could be cool to have like code4lib MOOC study groups. Like if there are
people taking the same courses and they have a loose affiliation with one
another through C4L that could be a much better starting point than
randomly trying to meet people.
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Timothy A. Lepczyk*
Digital Humanities
I think this is a great idea. I've got some training that I do
face-to-face and people have been bugging me to turn it into an online
course. But in the classroom the best learning takes place when people
do the exercises in groups. I've watched the class go from passive
listening to very
MOOC study groups is a great idea. I've dropped off on the MOOCs I tried,
largely bc they cut into my social life. Social life doesn't have to be all
in person and face to face, but traditional university has a huge
social component.
Education without classmates is not going to result in the
Another little quick comment, adding to the chorus of lurkers and people who
aren't sure if they're coders. Someday I hope to get to a code4lib conference
(if only to tell people in person I knew Jonathan Rochkind way back when), but
in the meantime I've been on this list on and off (but
I'm taking this course
http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253/CourseRev/apr2012 along with a
ComSci professor at my institution. He took a robotics class and found it
extremely useful.
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Timothy A. Lepczyk*
Digital Humanities Pedagogy Fellow
Hendrix College
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at
I've 'audited' a bunch of classes on Coursera, just to get an idea for what
they're doing, and the CS stuff is definitely better suited for online
learning. (I think people are still trying to figure out the right model
for humanities classes through sites like this).
Specifically, I think the
I took a Software Engineering for SaaS: Ruby on Rails Coursera course
over the summer through UC Berkely. I got a little more than 1/2 way
through and could not finish it.
I've been hacking for over 10 years (mostly PHP and Javascript among
others) so I've got a decent amount of programming
Amy --
I'm a lurker on Code4Lib. I don't consider myself a coder, but I have been
trying to learn as much as possible to help with my effectiveness at work.
I just completed a Coursera course on programming called, Learn to Program:
The Fundamentals (https://www.coursera.org/course/programming1).
I started taking the Functional Programming in Scala course offered a couple
of months ago, but it was an enormous time commitment. I had a week-long trip
to the office (in the UK - my job is a long and confusing story) which got me
so far behind (two weeks, the way the lessons ran), that I
