204 results found
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16 votes
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Website code optimization
How to optimize the code to gain speed, general site performance, improve search engine access, etc...
103 votes -
90 votes
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Ruby and Rails
A simple course teaching the use of programming language Ruby and moving on to building a basic application using the Ruby on Rails framework.
225 votes -
Modern China
This class would explore modern China within the last 10 years.
26 votes -
Ethics in an online world
What behavior is acceptable in an online environment? This class addresses ethical issues as they relate to online behavior.
12 votes -
Urban/apartment composting
How to compost when you don't have a yard (things like building a worm bin, what to use it for, etc.)
4 votes -
Open research methodologies
Similar to a traditional research methodologies course, but with an emphasis on conducting research openly. Would cover open and online tools, data preservation, open notesbook science, current thinking and debates around open research, (open) peer review, authorship and licensing, funding opportunities, as well as covering methodologies and providing a community to support participants in fleshing out ideas into well formed research questions.
76 votes -
3 votes
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Statistics Crash Course with GNU R
Do you still think statistics are difficult and boring? Do you like to understand stats results and graphs? Learn how to run and understand statistics without effort with the open source package GNU R
126 votes -
Data mining with social media
Twitter, StatusNet, Facebook. What can we learn from social media info?
101 votes -
chatroulette university
find someone online to learn wi... NEXT
3 votes -
Basic Electronics Design/Fabrication
The basic concepts of electronics, elements of design, and discussion of skills required for fabrication. Could take the form of a physical project, computer simulation, or diagramming/physics lessons.
79 votes -
16 votes
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6 votes
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Window Farming
Learn how to build a window farm with others.
13 votes -
Cryptozoology
Explore sea serpents, mermaids, loch monsters, bigfoot, the yeti and other mythological beasts through science, text and film!
19 votes -
Courses in Chinese
There are huge amounts of open resources in Chinese - whether the Chinese Top Level Courses, Taiwanese Open CourseWare, stuff translated through MyOOPS or CORE, or all the other stuff existing. Would be great if people began putting together courses on any topic using Chinese open resources, with the discussion happening in Chinese.
18 votes -
Learning Photography - Daily Shoots
This course would be structured much like the http://dailyshoot.com/. P2P course structure, theme assignments and critique/discussion around peers' work.
48 votes -
lesser known data structures
a course to study less well known data structures (probabilistic data structures, skip lists, bloom filters, etc.). see also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/500607/what-are-the-lesser-known-but-cool-data-structures
46 votes