Have you heard of the MOOCs?

Dear all, I decided for once to post a "rave" instead of always complaining. And today is, indeed, another day to complain: I don't know if you've heard, but Brussels has shut down completely, due to a terrorist threat. No metro, shops closed, and people advised to stay inside.

Anyway, here's the rave: I don't know if you've heard of the Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs. They are free university courses you can take online, virtually on anything you want, and you don't pay anything unless you want to get a certificate.

I followed one beginner's class of programming the Python language, which was absolutely fantastic! Then I did a more advanced course on interactive programming, still in Python, which was very, very hard for a total newbie in programming like me, but at least I finished the first part and actually wrote a "Pong" game -- for those who've heard of it . Now I'm following a (more relaxing) course on Internet History, which is one of the most fascinating things I've ever learnt. As I don't want a certificate, I haven't paid anything.

The site I use is Coursera, and if offers classes from many different universities: two of my courses are from the University of Michigan and the interactive programming is from Rice University.

Anyway, I just wanted to rave a bit about it...

I'd be interested to know if anyone else here is following a MOOC -- and on what

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This is the first I`ve heard of the MOOCs specifically...sounds a bit like Khan Academy. At any rate, it`s good that you have something to keep your mind occupied while everything is shut down. Take care of yourself during this hard time!

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*hugs*

I took a free introductory music class through there. Was quite fun!

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Thank you, everyone!

On Coursera, I like the idea of just taking random courses, as Mylari said, and seeing how they turn out -- I'll see if they have any language courses I could take, after the Internet one.

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I've heard of MOOC's. If I had more time, I'd want to take art classes or language classes.

P.S.: I saw a story on how the people of Brussels were posting cat pictures on Twitter during the lockdown so the police could do their job. I love this reaction-combating evil and fear with cuteness.

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Originally posted by msannomalley I saw a story on how the people of Brussels were posting cat pictures on Twitter during the lockdown so the police could do their job. I love this reaction-combating evil and fear with cuteness.

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