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≡ Category: Stanford | ≅ 2 Comments
What is a liberal education? And how can it help you live a more authentic and purposeful life? They are timely and timeless questions that get answered by The Art of Living, a team-taught course presented to Stanford freshmen. The first lecture (above) addresses these questions head on. And the remainder of the course (17 videos) [...]
≡ Category: MIT, Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 5 Comments
It happens at least a few times a day. Students look through our list of 400Â Free Online Courses, and ask us whether they can get a certificate for taking a class. And, unfortunately, our answer has been no — no, you can’t. But that may be about to change. Earlier this fall, Stanford launched a [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 17 Comments
Two weeks ago, we mentioned that Stanford will be rolling out seven new courses in its experiment with online learning. Fast forward to today, and yet another seven courses have been added to the winter lineup, bringing the total to 14. Immediately below, you’ll find the latest additions. All of these courses feature interactive video [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 4 Comments
This fall, Stanford launched a highly-publicized experiment in online learning. The university took three of its most popular computer science courses and made them freely available to the world. Each course features interactive video clips; short quizzes that provide instant feedback; and the ability to pose high value questions to Stanford instructors. The response? It has been nothing [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPad, iPhone, Stanford | ≅ 4 Comments
Back in 2009, Stanford University started recording lectures given in its iPhone Application Development course and then placing them on iTunes, making them free for anyone to view. The course hit a million downloads in a matter of weeks, and now, two years later, here’s where we stand. The course remains the most popular item on [...]
≡ Category: History, Stanford, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
As the French like to say, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Before there was Twitter, Facebook and Google+ (click to follow us), Europeans living in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had to deal with their own version of information overload. Emerging postal [...]
≡ Category: Stanford, Technology | ≅ 3 Comments
This fall, professors from Stanford’s prestigious School of Engineering will offer online three of its most popular computer science courses: Machine Learning, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Introduction to Databases. (You can sign up by clicking on these links.) The courses will feature short, interactive video clips that students can watch whenever and wherever they want; short quizzes [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Science, Stanford, Video - Science | ≅ 17 Comments
First thing you need to know: Before doing anything else, you should simply click “play” and start watching the video above. It doesn’t take long for Robert Sapolsky, one of Stanford’s finest teachers, to pull you right into his course. Better to watch him than listen to me. Second thing to know: Sapolsky is a MacArthur [...]
≡ Category: Science, Stanford, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology at Stanford University, famously focuses his research on stress above all else. (Don’t miss his book, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers.) The video above features Sapolsky presenting the Pritzker Lecture at the California Academy of Sciences on February 15, 2011. The full lecture can be seen on Fora TV. In this excerpt, Sapolsky amusingly tells [...]
≡ Category: Books, History, Literature, Stanford | ≅ 2 Comments
Read 12 of the greatest Sherlock Holmes stories for free, courtesy of Standford.
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