Congrats with the win! (of course there was never any doubt ;)
Yep, sometimes I wonder if one of us psychos out there is subconsciously writing the script for real world...
You can convert your Amazon books by importing them from the Kindle Reader application (free, available on all platforms) into Calibre. It's very easy, google for the instructions. But only non-DRM-ed books; AFAIK the Calibre DRM plugin only works for Windows. Unless you want to go into the trouble of installing a Windows emulator (WINE). (That's how it works for me under Linux, btw.)
I really like the new Coursera format with soft deadlines. It's nice that if you miss a deadline, you can transfer to the next session of the course (next month or so) with all your previous results intact. But even more importantly, all the course content, together with the assignments, is available right away, so you can work through it as fast as possible, while your enthusiasm still lasts ;) No painful wait for the new lectures every week.
Completely self-paced courses, though, are a different matter. It's impossible to implement peer-graded assignments, so there can be only machine graded quizzes... better than nothing, but boring. (Or are there self-paced courses with proper peer-graded assignments?) I don't like peer grading, but it seems to be the only way to leave some room for creativity.
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Date: 2015-11-29 10:40 am (UTC)Yep, sometimes I wonder if one of us psychos out there is subconsciously writing the script for real world...
You can convert your Amazon books by importing them from the Kindle Reader application (free, available on all platforms) into Calibre. It's very easy, google for the instructions. But only non-DRM-ed books; AFAIK the Calibre DRM plugin only works for Windows. Unless you want to go into the trouble of installing a Windows emulator (WINE). (That's how it works for me under Linux, btw.)
I really like the new Coursera format with soft deadlines. It's nice that if you miss a deadline, you can transfer to the next session of the course (next month or so) with all your previous results intact. But even more importantly, all the course content, together with the assignments, is available right away, so you can work through it as fast as possible, while your enthusiasm still lasts ;) No painful wait for the new lectures every week.
Completely self-paced courses, though, are a different matter. It's impossible to implement peer-graded assignments, so there can be only machine graded quizzes... better than nothing, but boring. (Or are there self-paced courses with proper peer-graded assignments?) I don't like peer grading, but it seems to be the only way to leave some room for creativity.