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Old 06-18-2016, 05:59 PM   #591
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Coursera Removing Over 400 (FREE) Courses. Are You Prepared?

UPDATE: I'm reading things that seem to contradict one another. On one of Coursera's webpages, it indicates that 417 courses will no longer be available after June 30th. But on another one of Coursera's webpages, there is an update from them about this change. It states that "there are a few dozen courses on the old platform that will not migrate to the new platform" (emph. mine, G). That update is dated June 17, so I have to believe that the information contained within it supersedes the information on the first webpage that I referenced above. Now the question is: which courses are part of the "few dozen" that will not be available after June 30? I haven't found an answer to that, yet.

One piece of good news: I read, on one of Coursera's webpages, that the procedure to save the courses is or can be a batch process. In other words, you can select the courses that you want to save, and do them all at the same time. You don't have to save each course individually.


Sometimes I get the idea that I'm the only one on MobileRead who cares about this kind of thing, but here goes . . . .

Coursera, a participant in the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) initiative, is changing the platform that their free courses are delivered on, to a new platform. This is set to occur on June 30.

That might not be bad news, in fact it might be good news, except for one thing. When they shut off their old platform, over 400 courses that are a part of what they call now the "old stack" will go the way of the passenger pigeon and dodo bird. That's right, they're going to disappear. This even includes courses that a person may have taken in the past. Here is a complete list of the courses that will be removed.

But no worries. There is an organization called Class Central that is providing a free guide on how to save the course materials (videos, slides, transcripts, etc.) before they disappear on June 30. You can find a link to that guide, as well as to other information about this development on Class Central's website.

I know that I've got to get busy now. Frankly, I have never downloaded any courses of MOOC that I know of (I've downloaded a few from iTunes University and other sites, though). But, I want to go through the list of courses that will disappear at Coursera and make sure that there aren't any that I would like to have. The passenger pigeon and dodo bird aren't coming back, and neither may any of those courses.

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