My friend introduced to me a fabulous free online course on Thursday when I met with him. It is by edX - a non-profit online initiative founded by Harvard and MIT. EdX provides online courses (I believe all are free) from the world's best universities such as MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX and UTx. Anyone can enroll into any course that they want. The courses that I have browsed through so far do not have any prerequisites at all, and they all have a certificate option by completing the course. You can either just register and look at the course materials as and when you want to, join in online discussions with students from around the world, complete homework and get graded, and if you complete all the components of the course, you can get a certificate on completion of the course. You can also sign up for any course any time you want, as long as the course is not over yet.
So this course that my friend introduced is called Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science. I registered immediately when he told me about it since my ambition was something like what edX is providing - to provide free education to whoever wants to learn. Anyway, I registered just in time as the first homework was due next Tuesday. Even though the course started on 8th October (that means I am about 6 weeks behind!) I was still allowed to join, plus the first homework is not due till next week. If I am not wrong, this is a 10 week course with homework (HW) and lab activities (which you perform at home) each week. These HW and lab are then due 6 weeks later. There is no lab for the last 2 weeks, instead it is a final project which has to be submitted by March 15, 2014, when the course closes. Everything regarding the course could be found in the "courseware" tab once you register. For the schedule of this course, click here.
I am really excited to complete this course and get a certificate! I already have my eye on another course - Unlocking the Immunity to Change: A New Approach to Personal Improvement. It starts on 20th January 2014 so I think I will have enough time to complete the course I am currently in first! I have enough time to do 2 courses or more at once anyway!
Do check out edX! I think it's a brilliant idea. Now I can learn anything I want, anywhere, at anytime (as long as I have access to internet)!
So this course that my friend introduced is called Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science. I registered immediately when he told me about it since my ambition was something like what edX is providing - to provide free education to whoever wants to learn. Anyway, I registered just in time as the first homework was due next Tuesday. Even though the course started on 8th October (that means I am about 6 weeks behind!) I was still allowed to join, plus the first homework is not due till next week. If I am not wrong, this is a 10 week course with homework (HW) and lab activities (which you perform at home) each week. These HW and lab are then due 6 weeks later. There is no lab for the last 2 weeks, instead it is a final project which has to be submitted by March 15, 2014, when the course closes. Everything regarding the course could be found in the "courseware" tab once you register. For the schedule of this course, click here.
I am really excited to complete this course and get a certificate! I already have my eye on another course - Unlocking the Immunity to Change: A New Approach to Personal Improvement. It starts on 20th January 2014 so I think I will have enough time to complete the course I am currently in first! I have enough time to do 2 courses or more at once anyway!
Do check out edX! I think it's a brilliant idea. Now I can learn anything I want, anywhere, at anytime (as long as I have access to internet)!
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