A reminder to take a break from the mince pies, eggnogs and carols this week - or from the shameless online holiday celebrations of other cultures, if you happen not celebrate western holidays - to check out the many upcoming winter course offerings from Coursera, EdX and StanfordX.

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blues · Answer

Coursera - www.coursera.org - has more than fifty classes starting in January. EdX - www.edx.org - has announced quite a few new classes in the last few weeks so check their website for updates. And Stanford, after a pilot class this fall, has started offering its own courses on a sister to the EdX platform which can be found at https://class.stanford.edu/courses. So I wish Happy Holidays to all. These online classes are a tremendous gift to the world's people, as bright as any gift under any Christmas tree. Hope to see you in some of them and happy studies in the new year. :)

beccaboo333 · Answer

Thanks you too! :D

opcode · Answer

Awesome, thank you for the link @blues :-).
Also happy holidays everyone.

abb0t · Answer

I enrolled in one of those coursera courses out of curiosity and to learn something...yeah NO. Too much work.

blues · Answer

You have the option of just following along with the lectures and readings. As I have done in a few cases. You don't get the certificate at the end saying "hey I did my homework." But I personally think those certificates are next to meaningless in the real world (resumes, college aps, etc) so all you get anyway is what you learn.

lncognlto · Answer

Finally! Someone who knows what mince pies are. LOL
And Merry Christmas to you all. xD