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A list of 600 new free MOOCs (qz.com)
121 points by onderkalaci on Nov 20, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments



The current title is '200 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list.'

But apparently:

-'just' means 'in the last 3 months'

- 'universities' includes companies that aren't universities

- 'launched' means 'announced'

e.g. 'Sequence models' hasn't yet been launched and, when it is, it won't have been launched by a university


Thanks for the feedback. I didn't want to change the title of the text.


This same post was posted on r/programming 14 days ago. Not long ago, a user in that subreddit posted a big list of courses like this all with affiliate links at the beginning of each month. S/he was informed that was against the subreddit rules and they stopped posting directly to the subreddit, opting instead to write up these blog posts and link to that instead. I don't know if this is the same person, but it's a strong case of correlation.

No problem at all clicking on affiliate links, but it feels sleezy when neither the website nor blog post are up front about it. You could generate so much goodwill with just a small disclaimer at the top of the blog post and somewhere on the website letting readers/users know that all the links are affiliate links.


You can also use http://mooc-list.com/ to search by subject, department, etc.


A standardized list is also on coursebuffet.com


Found a course, signed up, clicked join, was redirected via affiliate link to Coursera where I need to pay for a membership.


Did you try the link at the top of the article that explains how to sign up for Coursera courses for free?


Doh!


Good link. Though these courses have been there for a while online.


What a gem! Thank you




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