Stanford's classes are specially designed for online education (i.e. not a byproduct of on-campus lectures from 2003). In last years 3 major innovation dramatically increased effectiveness of online education:
1. Special format (found by Salman Khan): short videos, blackboard
I m doing online studies at the University of London ( http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/ ) and we have in some modules to every section a Video to give an overview and PDF for revision and Quizzes for testing yourself. The actual exam can be taken on campus or at your near British Consulate or Embassy.
Its pretty hard studying this way in comparision to study on campus. but far more convient and cheaper.
I assume that this is the same with other US Online studies like at Harvard or Standford. I just notice that the lectures in the Harvard videos that I ve watched, they seem to be aware of Online Students watching this later as an recording, and they are far more appealing to watch.
I'm not sure if you're just trolling or if you have an actual critical comparison to make. Can you elaborate?
There are a number of things you could be referring to when you say the Stanford lectures are "way better". Which Stanford lectures are you talking about? The recent AI, DB and ML classes? The general Stanford open course stuff? Are you talking about the content, presentation, selection of material, structure of classes, file formats, editing, ... ?
I've watched a lot of the Stanford AI and DB lectures, and I've cherry picked from the other stuff. The list of courses here (http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative) includes some things that aren't offered by Stanford, and based on 5 minutes of sampling, the video quality looks passable. Some of the Stanford open course videos are pretty terrible in video quality (check out the web applications one) altho the content seems very good. I can't speak to the content of the Harvard lectures without actually watching them. Have you?
While it would be great if Harvard started to offer structured online classes like the recent Stanford ones, it's pretty cool that these are available at all, given that Harvard is about as old-guard as you can get.
[+] [-] roman_vorushin|14 years ago|reply
1. Special format (found by Salman Khan): short videos, blackboard
2. A lot of quizzes inside lectures (inquiry based learning). See http://t.co/eN9g9MAU and http://t.co/YiXUMs9x
3. Group effects (http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_educa...). If your class has definite schedule and you have thousands of people doing this class with you and communicating while doing it, your results will be much higher.
[+] [-] badalyan|14 years ago|reply
https://www.cs50.net/lectures/
[+] [-] utkarshkukreti|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] missy|14 years ago|reply
Its pretty hard studying this way in comparision to study on campus. but far more convient and cheaper.
I assume that this is the same with other US Online studies like at Harvard or Standford. I just notice that the lectures in the Harvard videos that I ve watched, they seem to be aware of Online Students watching this later as an recording, and they are far more appealing to watch.
This is the Youtube channel to my Online Uni
http://www.youtube.com/user/UniofLondon?blend=16&ob=5
This Video id say is a better one, but many others are bad to watch online.
http://www.youtube.com/user/UniofLondon?blend=16&ob=5#p/...
I wonder what you thought of the British Style in this video to the US ones you have seen.
thanks
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[+] [-] spacemanaki|14 years ago|reply
There are a number of things you could be referring to when you say the Stanford lectures are "way better". Which Stanford lectures are you talking about? The recent AI, DB and ML classes? The general Stanford open course stuff? Are you talking about the content, presentation, selection of material, structure of classes, file formats, editing, ... ?
I've watched a lot of the Stanford AI and DB lectures, and I've cherry picked from the other stuff. The list of courses here (http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative) includes some things that aren't offered by Stanford, and based on 5 minutes of sampling, the video quality looks passable. Some of the Stanford open course videos are pretty terrible in video quality (check out the web applications one) altho the content seems very good. I can't speak to the content of the Harvard lectures without actually watching them. Have you?
While it would be great if Harvard started to offer structured online classes like the recent Stanford ones, it's pretty cool that these are available at all, given that Harvard is about as old-guard as you can get.