Study at Stanford. For free.
Ever wanted to study at a prestigious school like Stanford? Now you can, through their free series of online classes.
To highlight Stanford’s free online offering, they will be delivering free classes online for sixteen courses covering topics as diverse as Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning, Intro to Logic, through to a Crash Course in Creativity.
Students interested in registering should go to the course websites listed below or to theStanford Online website, where updates will be available as new courses appear.
Here is a list of fall quarter classes, with instructor, course title, start date and platform:
Andrew Ng, Machine Learning, Aug. 20, Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
Dan Boneh, Cryptography, Aug. 27, Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
Keith Devlin, Introduction to Mathematical Thinking, Sept. 17, Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/maththink
Daphne Koller, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Sept. 24, Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm
Scott Klemmer, Human-Computer Interaction, Sept. 24, Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/hci
Michael Genesereth, Introduction to Logic, Sept. 24, Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/intrologic
Dan McFarland, Organizational Analysis, Sept. 24, Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/organalysis
Kristin Sainani, Writing in the Sciences, Sept. 24, Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/sciwrite
Tim Roughgarden, Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2, October, Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/algo2
Chuck Eesley, Technology Entrepreneurship, Fall, Venture Lab
http://venturelab.stanford.edu/venture
Tina Seelig, A Crash Course on Creativity, Fall, Venture Lab
http://venturelab.stanford.edu/creativity
Paul Kim, Designing a New Learning Environment, Fall, Venture Lab
http://venturelab.stanford.edu/education
Kay Giesecke, Finance, Fall, Venture Lab
http://venturelab.stanford.edu/finance
Clint Korver, Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship, Fall, Venture Lab
http://venturelab.stanford.edu/advanced_venture
Bruce Clemens, Solar Cells, Fuel Cells and Batteries, Oct. 8, Class2Go
http://solar.class.stanford.edu
Nick McKeown and Philip Levis, An Introduction to Computer Networks, Oct. 8, Class2Go
http://networking.class.stanford.edu
Source: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/september/online-courses-fall-090712.html