Stanford University launched 16 new online courses and two new
home-grown platforms for interactive learning this fall. Stanford's new
online courses cover topics in computer science, mathematics,
linguistics, science writing, sociology, and education. The two
platforms each have distinct features and capabilities, such as video
lectures, discussion forums, peer assessment, problem sets, quizzes, and
team projects. Class2Go is a new open source platform developed by
Stanford engineers that will host "An Introduction to Computer Networks"
and a course on solar cells. The other new platform, called Venture
Lab, will host "Technology Entrepreneurship," which attracted 37,000
students when it was first offered last spring, as well as other
courses. Venture Lab, developed by Stanford's Amin Saberi, was designed
for use by students working in teams. Meanwhile, the Coursera online
learning platform will host nine Stanford courses this fall, including
"Writing in the Sciences" and "Human-Computer Interaction." Other
online courses include those on machine learning, cryptography,
probabilistic graphical models, organizational analysis, and finance.
(From Stanford University News, September 7, 2012)
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