Q: I'm wanting to do online courses for computer science. I need a laptop to come with the course since I don't have one. Is there any online schools that offer a laptop with their courses?
A: I don't know of any that offer a free computer with a course. There are some that give a computer upon full-time enrollment as a student with their college (and generally, if you drop the courses, they deduct the cost of the computer from your refun
Computers are now an inseparable part of our day to day lives and hence learning how to use computers efficiently is a must. Computer illiteracy is rather negative because a computer is straightaway associated with the simplest of the tasks such as getting a letter done, chatting with a friend for rates that are cheaper than phoning, sending an e-card (a procedure that would have taken days if the greetings are sent via snail mail), finding information online, which would ve been slow and time taking otherwise, etc. A modern day student, middle school or grad-school, would be gone without computers and it is hard to envisage our lives without all the entertainment over these high tech machine friends. Henceforth, one can figure out how significant it is to know how to use a computer properly. For this reason, many institutes offer computer training courses for all age groups and educational grades.
...Stanford University is introducing five free online classes this month, following a successful pilot last fall that drew more than 350,000 participants around the world.
The online classes are part of a university initiative to creatively use new technology to improve education both on campus and off.
"Stanford has been a pioneer in online education for many years, and we are pleased to continue expanding and refining our online offerings to benefit both our own students and students around the world," said Stanford University Provost John Etchemendy .
Three classes will launch on March 12 – Design and Analysis of Algorithms , Natural Language Processing and Cryptography . Two more, Game Theory and Probabilistic Graphical Models , are scheduled to launch on March 19.
Demand has been strong; total enrollment in the five new classes is nearly 335,000.
Last fall, 356,000 people from 190 countries expressed interest in one or more of the first three classes offered, and approximately 43,000 successfully completed a course. Participants came from as close as Stanford's Palo Alto campus and as far away as Ghana, Peru, Russia and New Zealand.
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Students could plug into their courses anytime they have access to a computer. That could mean from home, study hall or a public library. "Just because these are online courses doesn't mean all the work is online," Somrock said. |
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Computer training courses online are available for just any reason, from certification courses for a variety of IT jobs to a computer course on how to repair computers.
