Learning with MOOC's

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) bring more and more of the world’s best teachers to anyone with an internet connection, for free. Background on MOOCs in this NYTimes article.

“For anyone, anywhere, anytime” - edX.

Growing competition among MOOC platforms

• edX - Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Georgetown…
• Coursera - Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Duke…
• Udacity - founded by Sebastian Thrun (Google Fellow, inventor of autonomous cars, project lead on Google Glass)
• Khan Academy - since 2006, originator in 8-12 min videos, backed by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Courses I’m taking or completed

• The Challenge of Global Poverty (MIT) by Esther Duflo
• Startup Engineering (Stanford) by Balaji S. Srinivasan & V.S. Pande
• Codeacademy: Ruby
• Codeacademy: Javascript

More interesting courses…

• Electricity & Magnetism Physics II (MIT) by Walter Lewin
• Justice (Harvard) by Michael Sandel
• Human Health & Global Environmental Change (Harvard)
• Gamification (UPenn)
• Global Business of Sports (Wharton)
• Game Theory (Stanford)
• The Science of Gastronomy (Hong Kong UST)
• Physics (Khan Academy)