[cwhittle]

The new courses are great, but there's something I don't understand about these course websites. I'm doing probabilistic graphical models, but I just want the content to learn, and I don't really care much about some certificate. I also don't have a lot of time this particular month. I'm guessing that this is true for the majority of people taking the course (I'd be interested to see how many people who signed up actually kept up). What is the point in making time limited offerings for an online, recorded course?

[jberryman]

I think they want the social aspects of a bunch of people doing the course and having discussions/QA on the course forums. Personally I found visiting the forums during the ML course last year to be pretty depressing. seemed to be a mix of entitled whining and nauseatingly giddy excitement, both of which killed my learning boner. Overall great experience though.

[rhizome]

Think DeVry more than Khan.