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Stanford Announces 16 Online Courses For Fall Quarter
The free online courses for Stanford's fall quarter cover a wide range of fields, including computer science, mathematics, linguistics, science writing, sociology, and education.
Credit: Stanford University
Stanford University launched 16 new online courses and two new home-grown platforms for interactive learning this fall. Stanford's new online courses cover topics in computer science, mathematics, linguistics, science writing, sociology, and education.
The two platforms each have distinct features and capabilities, such as video lectures, discussion forums, peer assessment, problem sets, quizzes, and team projects. Class2Go is a new open source platform developed by Stanford engineers that will host "An Introduction to Computer Networks" and a course on solar cells. The other new platform, called Venture Lab, will host "Technology Entrepreneurship," which attracted 37,000 students when it was first offered last spring, as well as other courses. Venture Lab, developed by Stanford's Amin Saberi, was designed for use by students working in teams.
Meanwhile, the Coursera online learning platform will host nine Stanford courses this fall, including "Writing in the Sciences" and "Human-Computer Interaction." Other online courses include those on machine learning, cryptography, probabilistic graphical models, organizational analysis, and finance.
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