Monday, September 10, 2012
FIX University OCW )Open Course Ware @ newsRus.com
Dear FIX,
Welcome to Networks FMB!
While coursera website for the course will formally launch on Sept. 17 (the day this course starts at Princeton University), we got a week of preview now, starting today.
Check out the videos on our YouTube Channel (5 modules labeled A to E for lecture 0 the introduction, and 6 modules for lecture 1):
http://www.youtube.com/user/Network20Q/videos?sort=da&flow=grid&view=0
These two lectures will be our Sept. 17 lecture and Sept. 19 lecture, respectively. You know this whole course is structured around 20 Questions about networks in your life, and each Lectures 1-20 is on one question.
While linear algebra and multivariable calculus are prerequisites if you want to understand 100% of the course material, you will see that in all lectures anyone can appreciate the first modules of each lecture video, and perhaps 80% of the last couple of modules too. So, you can just fast forward the more mathematical part if you want, and move on to the next lecture without losing the gist or coherence of the course.
Going forward, we'll always release videos one week ahead of the actual lectures at Princeton (and the most intensive period of coursera forum discussions associated with those lectures).
And we'll have these videos available on coursera and on YouTube (many of you have smartphones or tablets with a YouTube app, you can search for "Network20Q", and be directed to our Channel). So hit "Subscribe" button on YouTube to subscribe to our Channel, and hit the "Like" button too!
Speaking of schedules, homeworks will be released on Wed of each week, and solution provided one week later. We synchronize with Princeton University calendar, so there's a Fall break during the last week of Oct. Plus Nov. 21 is the Wed before Thanksgiving in US, and no class on that day. The last lecture will be on Dec. 5.
We'll be shooting you one email every day this whole week, leading up to the Sept. 17 launch. Each day we'll talk about a feature of the course. Today's about the YouTube videos. You'll see another feature in tomorrow's announcement.
Talk to you then.
Mung Chiang (chiang.coursera@gmail.com)
and Network FMB Teaching Staff at Princeton
(Follow us on Twitter @network20q too!)
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