Cours online & gratuit : Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Fall 2011

[Franck Dernoncourt]

Encore une grosse annonce :

MIT and Harvard announce edX

Joint partnership builds on MITx and Harvard distance learning; aims to benefit campus-based education and beyond.

Harvard University and MIT today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

EdX will build on both universities’ experience in offering online instructional content. The technological platform recently established by MITx, which will serve as the foundation for the new learning system, was designed to offer online versions of MIT courses featuring video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, student-ranked questions and answers, online laboratories and student-paced learning. Certificates of mastery will be available for those who are motivated and able to demonstrate their knowledge of the course material.

MIT and Harvard expect that over time other universities will join them in offering courses on the edX platform. The gathering of many universities’ educational content together on one site will enable learners worldwide to access the course content of any participating university from a single website, and to use a set of online educational tools shared by all participating universities.

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EdX: The Future of Online Education is Now - YouTube

EdX: The Future of Online Education is Now - YouTube

[Franck Dernoncourt]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Coursera Staff <team@coursera.org>
Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM
Subject: 12 World-Class Universities Join Coursera!
To: franck.dernoncourt (at~~#) gmail.com


Dear Courserians,

We are THRILLED to announce that 12 universities -- including three international institutions -- will be joining Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania in offering classes on Coursera.

On Coursera, you will now be able to access world-class courses from:

California Institute of Technology
Duke University
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Georgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
University of California, San Francisco
University of Edinburgh
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Washington
You'll be able to choose from more than 100 new courses, from learning how to program in Scala (taught from the creator of Scala, Professor Martin Odersky from EPFL), to Professor Dan Ariely's course on irrational behavior, to the legendary UVA course "How Things Work" with Professor Louis Bloomfield. You can check out the most current course list here -- keep in mind you can enroll in a class even if the start date is to be announced.

To date, 700,000 students from 190 countries have participated in classes on Coursera, with more than 1.6 million course enrollments total!

To everyone who has taken a class on Coursera, or who has recommended us to your friends and family -- thank you! Education is starting to look very different, and we're excited and humbled to be part of it.

Very best,

Your Coursera Team | www.coursera.org

[bertry]

Il y a même un cours en français : Introduction à la Programmation Objet (in French).

... Personnellement, bien qu'êtant francophone et ne parlant pas couramment l'Anglais, je ne trouve pas que ce soit une excellente idée!! Si tout monde se met à faire de cours dans sa langue, c'est la régression façon tour de Babel : on ne se comprendra plus les uns les autres!! ( si des cours sont en allemand, en espagnol, en arabe, en chinois,... je ne pourrais pas les suivre!! )

[Franck Dernoncourt]

100% agree!

[bertry]

Salut,

Vous trouverez ici une présentation de Coursera par Daphne Koller (co-fondatrice du site avec Andrew Ng) diffusée sur CNN

[Franck Dernoncourt]

no mention of Seb Thrun!

[bertry]

Sebastian Thrun n'est pas sur Coursera mais sur Udacity.

[Franck Dernoncourt]

I know but still...
anyway, great talk, thanks for sharing.

BTW another potentially important player in MOOC: Google Open Course Builder, which was announced a few days ago.

• article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/goo...ourse-builder/
• official website: https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/

By the same token, Stanford announced their own open source MOOC platform Class2Go a few days ago as well.

• Article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/17/cla...ine-education/
• Official website: http://class2go.stanford.edu/
• Source code: https://github.com/Stanford-Online/class2go

FYI here is a list of existing open source platforms (found in a TechCrunch comment):*A-LMS, Anema, Atutor, Avatal Learn Station, Bodington, Brihaspati, Canvas, Chamilo | Claroline | CloudCource | CommSy, COurse Builder, Docebo, Dokeos, EdoWorkSpace, eFront, Eledge, ForeL, Formagri/Ceres, ILIAS, Litw3,.LRN, LON-CAPA, metacoon, MILESS, Moodle, Nicenet, NTER, OLAT, openelms, OpenUSS & FSL, Quality Assurance, Sakai, Spaghetti, Stud.IP, SuperX, TinyLMS, Uni Open Platform, Virtual University, WebAssign.

Also, I have recently heard of a French MOOC initiative: http://mooc.fr/lneap/

[egann538]

Bonjour Franck,

J'ai voulu t'envoyer un message privé mais apparemment ta boîte est pleine. Heureusement il reste le forum:

N'oublie pas l'une des 1ères règles du forum: "Ce forum est un forum francophone ".

Sinon, et puisque j'ai l'occasion de t'envoyer un message, j'ai pu apprécier à plusieurs reprises tes interventions à propos de l'intelligence artificielle sur développez.com. Et pour ça je te remercie.

Bonne journée.

[Franck Dernoncourt]

Thanks. Reasons on the top of my head why some of my previous messages are in English:

• I'm using voice recognition, got some new gear and haven't trained it again for French as I prefer first to improve my recognition in English (recently moved in the US)
• some of my messages (such as the last one) were already written English
• this thread deals of classes in English (since the French education system is barely beginning to discover MOOC)
• Google translate
• The title of the forum also says that people here are supposed to be IT professionals. For me this implies that they also speak English.

To contact me: http://francky.me/contact.php
Sorry, there is unfortunately no way I can display my in address on my DVP profile, and I don't like using the DVP inbox.

[Franck Dernoncourt]

The growing connection between AI and online education: http://chronicle.com/article/From-Se...opters/134666/ W