My State of E-Learning #elearning #coursera #udemy #udacity
Recently I’ve gotten the online learning bug back, not that it’s ever away for long, so I’ve been busy again on Coursera. And thanks to a HTML 5 course I also started to use Udemy. An Eric Ries course is waiting on Udacity for me to start it. In the past I used to use iTunesU to follow online university courses, such as Yale’s Game Theory Lectures by Benjamin Polak.
Coursera
I’m currently enrolled in 6 courses, and I’ve followed a number of courses here, yet none to completion within the time period set by the tutor. Often the amount of time I would need to set aside for the course can be between 6 and 12 hours each week, this is entirely possible and I often do manage to do a couple of hours in the evening. Another issue is that to receive course credit these Problem Sets need to be in at a certain date, or courses which have been running over 1 week it is often impossible to submit these on time to be eligible for course credit.
Coursera does allow you to download all the video’s, so it is possible to view these at a later date, or even from the beach somewhere. And they sometimes offer the course multiple times, so in the example of Model Thinking I have enrolled a second time so I can complete easier.
Posterous Migration [UPDATE]
I just migrated all my posterous posts to here, it decided to post all the drafts I had in posterous. This might take a little time to fix. 
UPDATE: if it isn’t all fixed respond to this post and I’ll fix it.
In-vitro bacon anybody?
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In-vitro bacon anybody?
Inside the meat lab: the future of food
With billions of mouths to feed, we can’t go on producing food in the traditional way. Scientists are coming up with novel ways to cater for future generations. In-vitro burger, anyone?
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Social Permissions for 2013
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Social Permissions fo 2013Last year I found myself overwhelmed by changes in the privacy settings in many of my most used Social Media applications. I decided then, what I’m going to tell you now: Just set everything to open, and don’t post stuff you don’t want on your??permanent??record online.If you are rather more lackadaisical to the issue of privacy you might want to try MyPermissions, which has an overview of all the settings.
Alternatively you could use PrivacyFix which can automate this for…  |
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Crowdbooster Killing Freemium
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Crowdbooster Killing Freemium, Gives Free Alternatives
Crowdbooster??is killing there freemium model, according to Ricky Yean??this is because we started falling behind on our promise to give you the highest quality service and we hated it.??Naturally they don’t want to leave their free customers – who may be unlikely to ever pay – hanging. So they made a list of services where they can get their analytics fix without bogging down the system.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiA_xls996Kw…
Changes coming to Crowdbooster: replacing freemium with paid-only subscriptions – Crowdbooster Blog
We have recently made the very difficult decision to discontinue Crowdbooster’s free service and replace it with a paid subscription at $9 a month starting on March 1, 2013. We understand that this is…
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Printed Books Not Dying
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Printed Books Not DyingLast week I read an interesting post by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten - although I am not able to find it back on The Next Web - who’s basic gist was: dead trees are dead, read electrons.After reading the statistics below, I’m not so sure…
Will Gutenberg laugh last?
It has been taken on faith by many, including your benighted scribe, that the future of book publishing is digital, that the e-book will displace the printed codex as the dominant form of the domin….
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Killing Big Data, About Time
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Killing Big Data, About TimeThat sounds like a very good idea. At The Next Web conference I was talking to an investor about a project I was involved in, I laughed and said it was a Big Data project. I brought out the cliché: I was in Big Data before it was called Big Data. The main issue I said with many of the Big Data projects I was being told about that they were actually Data Warehouse projects.
Why We Need To Kill Big Data
It’s the New Year and along with resolutions about eating healthier, being kinder and exercising more frequently, I’d like to add one more to the list. Let’s banish the term big data with pivot, cloud…
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