There are some finance ones, so figured I’d share in case anyone is interested:
Computational Investing by Georgia Institute of Technology
Princples of Obesity Economics by John Hopkins
Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics by University of Washington
Game Theory by Stanford University
Data Analysis by John Hopkins
Financial Engineering and Risk Management by Columbia
A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior by Duke
I’m enrolled in a few of these. Figured I’d give it a shot and if I don’t like it, there is no commitment.
rawraw, thanks for posting. I signed up for Intro to Comp Finance. It says the course only starts on Dec 17. What’s the format of this course exactly? Why aren’t the videos all available to watch now (i.e. why not have posted videos from last year)? Is there actual interaction available with tutors, etc?
edit - apologies if this info was available on the site. I had a quick look through the options but couldn’t find any info on what’s actually available with these courses. Intro video for the course also didn’t work.
When classes end, the videos are removed after a certain time period. It functions like a regular class, you have lectures that are posted at scheduled times each week. Most of the classes have a forum for interaction with other students and professors. You get homework and tests (which of course are optional) at assigned intervals and can complete and submit.
My impression is that some or most of these classes are actual classes being hosted at the universities. So you only get the lecture as it happens, just like in college.
How to Reason and Argue is on the site and has the largest enrollment to date. I signed up for it so I can be more like BChad. It went live today
I took data analysis at John Hopkins, it’s really about programming in R. The class doesn’t given enough background info to successfully pass without a good amount of previous experience with R. I’d be willing to bet that less than 5% of the people passed (I didn’t complete the course). There were tons of complaints on the messageboard about the instructor and the fact that it’s a 4 week class, the programming assignments were the biggest obstacle for most.
Anyways, I ordered a couple of books on Amazon to complete he education I don’t receive.
Great stuff. Thanks for the post. Some of these definitely look really interesting, both for new knowledge, and for catching up on improvements in the field since I learned stuff.
Also, rawraw, that was one of the nicest compliments I’ve ever received. Thank you.
@igor555 I had taken John Cochrane’s Asset Pricing on Coursera last year, but it is too high level and not practical enough for me so I gave up. I like the site, but many professors are not used to it and it will take time to be great.
I think that certificates of completion don’t really mean anything now, but who knows about the future. I did see that there were John Hopkins classes that required you to pay to take them.
I just signed up for the Washington Data Science class.