Free Education

Free online education from top Universities!

Many of these online courses require you to turn in homework and complete quizzes.  Has anyone taken a Coursera course?  If so, what did you think of it?


Here are a few courses on my short list

• Functional Programming Principles in Scala
• Networked Life
• Computing for Data Analysis
• Web Intelligence and Big Data (this is a huge growth industry!); and of course
• Social Network Analysis

If you've been following my reading list on LinkedIn, you will see a lot of books on community building and human networks.  I find the whole subject of how humans self-organize to be absolutely fascinating.  One book I strongly recommend on the subject is The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell, followed closely by Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler.

Happy Learning!