Coursera Relaunches Classic Computer Science Courses

mikejuk writes: Following up a recent Slashdot item on Coursera trashing historically important classic courses and all because they are moving to a new platform with better money making prospects.
The good news is that Coursera have "done the right thing" — although it is still a bit confused and with no announcement it could well be missed.
Coursera has a list of 90 courses that have transitioned to the new platform since the old one shut on June 30th and it includes 25 Computer Science ones and the all important Hinton course on neural networks. Most of the courses are free but there are no certificates of completion or anything else. While they have specified start dates and cohorts of students will be encouraged to complete them within a set number of weeks, without graded assignments there may not be the same impetus as for the original courses or as for newer courses designed specifically for the new platform.