[phoenix-project] Fwd: [Edu-sig] New Python MOOC on Coursera with 100% CC-BY Materials and Book
- From: Ajith Kumar <ajith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: phoenix-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ramesan CV <ramesancv@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:56:45 +0530
Hello All,
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for those who are interested in Python.
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Ajith
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From: Charles Severance <csev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:13 AM
Subject: [Edu-sig] New Python MOOC on Coursera with 100% CC-BY Materials
and Book
To: edu-sig@xxxxxxxxxx
Hi all,
I just wanted to let you know about a new Free University of Michigan
Python course I am teaching on Coursera called "Programming for Everybody".
https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn
The idea of the course is not to be a first Computer Science course - but
instead to be a "programming literacy" / "computational thinking" aimed at
somewhere between middle of high school and freshman in college or adult
learners looking for an "on ramp" for learning about technology.
The course is based on 100% CC-BY materials available from:
http://open.umich.edu/education/si/coursera-programming-everybody/winter2014
We not only provide the slides and sample code uncer CC, but also
ready-to-load course exports from Blackboard and Moodle. There is also an
open source Skulpt-based auto-grader that is part of the course that I host
and make available at no charge as long as I don't run out of resources my
University of Michigan-provided servers.
The book is a heavily adapted variant of Allen Downey and Jeff Elkner's
Think Python book. It is about 80% all new and published as "Python for
Informatics". All the electronic copies (including an iBooks version with
embedded video tutorials) are free and the printed textbook is $8.99 on
Amazon.
http://www.pythonlearn.com/book.php
I am hoping to use the high-profile of Coursera to attract a wide range of
students and teachers from around the world to get a basic introduction to
programming in Python in a way that they can perhaps take their skills and
materials back and teach them locally. I am hoping to create a learning
community that can hep increase the number of high school and community
college teachers who can competently teach a Python class.
I would hope that you might share this with various high school and college
teachers that you think might be interested in participating in the course.
I owe thanks to lots of folks in the Python Edu community who did early
work that I have built upon like Jeff, Allen, and Brad Miller (Skulpt).
Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Charles Severance
University of Michigan
School of Information
www.dr-chuck.com
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