A preliminary presentation material for the first meetup of Coursera in Tsukuba. Wriiten by N. Kawagashira.

1. Coursera T
sukuba
MOOC m eetup in T
sukuba
Nobuyuki Kawagashira
Oct 5, 2013

2. About m e
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Nam e: 川頭信之 Nobuyuki Kawagashira
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Interested in Data S
cience
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Data m ining com petition in Kaggle,
CrowdS
olving
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Hang gliding
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Will work at U of T
okyo
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CodeIQ question m aker
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@
nkawagashira
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http://d.hatena.ne.jp/infoarchitect/

3. What is MOOC?
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A m assive open online course (MOOC) is an
online course aim ed at large-scale interactive
participation and open access via the web.

4. Other MOOCs
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EdX
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Udacity
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Khan Academ y – High school level
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ItuneU
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Udem y – Everyone can be a teacher
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CodeAcadem y – JQuery, Javascript, PHP,
Python, Ruby

5. Courses I participated
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Machine Learning
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Introuction to Data S
cience
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Philip Klein, Brown U
Maps and Geospatial Revolution
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Bill Howe, U of Washington
Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through
Com puter S
cience Application
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Andrew Ng, S
tanford U
Anthony C. Robinson, Pennsylvania S
tate U
S
ocial Network Analysis
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Lada Adam ic, U of Michigan

6. MOOC's m erits
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Not lim ited in location, tim e, age, sex,
disability, skills, and m oney.
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Free tuition
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Video – repetitive learning
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Autom atic grader
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Discussion groups
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Real world project
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Peer reviewing
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Meetups – this m eeting!

7. Coursera T
okyo
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Meetup on July, 2013.
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NHK interviewed and on air.
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Facebook – Coursera Japan Group

8. Next Coursera T
sukuba?
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S e presentations of Coursera experience
om
Meetup posters in U of T
sukuba & Kashiwa
Cam pus, U of T
okyo
Advertising English or international clubs in
T
sukuba area
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Event? International festival in T
sukuba
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Educational support for Courserian