Edx Announced 7 Free Courses

Just added these to the list on Class Central(<a href="http://www.class-central.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.class-central.com</a>). With these and the addition of new Coursera courses last week, the single page site has grown really long.

What would you choose ? MIT's 6.00x or Hardvard's CS50x ? MIT's one looks more mathematical oriented, and probably a bit more difficult but better quality (I've seen some of the Python videos of MIT's OpenCourseWare)<p>CS50 looks more "fast paced" as it teaches you several paradigms, but I'd rather learn more C than Python.<p>I can't make up my mind. I've programmed a bit, in Python, C and now a bit of C++ (Also a bit of Haskell) but I never took any kind of classes nor studied things like Algorithms or Data Structures in deep.<p>What would you choose ?

Berkeley's presence on both coursera and EdX is an interesting wrinkle -- they've got a quote in another article suggesting they can't control where their professors to decide to put their content: “Ultimately, our faculty will decide where they want to put courses up online, but we find that edX has values and methodologies very closely aligned with ours at Berkeley, so our institutional preference would be to use edX,” said Robert J. Birgeneau, the chancellor of Berkeley.

I really hate it when the post titles are changed but in this case it's justified -- this is edX not MITx.<p>I like that, as with the recent Caltech machine learning course, these courses look like they will really push people.

Too much focus on Computer Science in my opinion. Udacity already covers CS in detail. The only interesting bit is the introductory chemics course, a focus on physics, chemics, biology and engineering could have set edx apart from udacity.

I took CS188 (the AI course) recently and it was really great. Dan Klein is easily one of the favorite CS professors among the students--everyone really loves his class. He is, critically, a great <i>educator</i>. And, naturally, great fun. The lectures were certainly fun to attend even when the material was relatively easy.<p>The online version only has half the material. However, this makes sense; the class is naturally divided into two parts. The first half was focused more on AI and search problems and the second part was more about machine learning. I suspect the only reason it is one class is because it has to fit in the semester system. Online, naturally, it's liberated from this constraint.<p>Anyhow, I definitely recommend this for anyone interested in AI. And even if you're not interested in the field as much, it's a fun course and only lasts three months.

Hey guys!<p>I don't really get the difference between these two: <a href="https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.00x/2012_Fall/about" rel="nofollow">https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.00x/2012_Fall/about</a> <a href="https://www.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/CS50x/2012/about" rel="nofollow">https://www.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/CS50x/2012/about</a><p>Any ideas?

I am confused, why is saas here, the same course is offered at coursera

Love how the picture on that site shows a guy wearing a Georgia Tech shirt at MIT. :)

Anyone know when the actual platform will be open sourced?

Beautiful UI, I love it!

The course images are almost impossible to read on the blackberry.