I don't know why such courses have arisen - of course one can speculate. Ultimately they're intended to make money by monetizing the user base - either by charging directly or by recruitment services (we already see some of this). Some courses are very high quality (of course others are not). I've done a few and learned a lot in the process.
On 5 January 2015 at 23:15, Grant Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've never contributed to these lists but Voxra's recent message has prompted > me to speak up - I usually sit in silence taking in what everyone else has to > say. Hope you don't mind the intrusion! > > I thought some people might be interested in this Cryptography course, > offered by Stanford via Coursera (all free): > > https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto > > The course started today and seems like it might be quite good for those of > us interested to understand the mechanisms of cryptography. > > As an aside, I'm quite interested to know what people think about the fashion > for these kinds of "MOOG" courses. There's a lot of hype surrounding them, > and they attract the attention of some very high profile institutions. > So what do you think? Where have these popular courses sprung from?Do the > courses have any cultural or social value? Or are they just some tedious fad? > > Well, that's it from me. Hopefully everyone's enjoying a good start to 2015! > > Grant. > -- > Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future: > https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join > > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to > [email protected] > or use https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-discuss -- Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] or use https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-discuss
