edX paywall

[gamstc]

Since the beginning of 2019 edX is no longer giving free access to most of their courses, but "audit" access will now expire after a certain amount of time (sometimes as little as 2 days), unless you upgrade to the "verified track", which is of course paid.

How does this affect your "open source" course list? If edX is no longer "open source", this list is significantly shrinked unfortunately. 😞

[AlexMunoz905]

Thanks for telling us. It sucks that they are doing that but, they gotta make money somehow.

[AlexMunoz905]

Whats the name of the course? I cant find edX on the list.

[gamstc]

edX is the platform where many of the courses on the list are hosted.

BTW: Coursera is now also limiting free aka "audit" access for many courses and specializations. Bye bye, M O OCs 😞

[reevox2]

So then no more free CS degrees. I guess it's GG on this repo.

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edX is the platform where many of the courses on the list are hosted.

BTW: Coursera is now also limiting free aka "audit" access for many courses and specializations. Bye bye, MOOCs 😞

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[ForrestKnight]

Actually, every single one of the edX courses in this curriculum are still free. I'm not sure the validity of Coursera limiting their audit access. Would you mind linking to where you saw that?

[meguimb]

They don't let you finish the course, some of them take x weeks to finish but before that they close your access to the course, I was talking about the Introduction to CS with Python on edx but i see you changed that one, don't know if it's the same for the others

[nunavailabul]

Isn't that just the MIT Open Courseware under the edX banner anyway(is free from MIT)?

[gamstc]

As I mentioned in my initial comment above, they changed their policy for all courses in the beginning of the year (see the link I provided). Here is an explanation from their own Help Center.

[gamstc]

As for Coursera: Here is an example of a course that does not offer auditing anymore at all. In any case auditing always means you do not have access to assessments or even exercises (on edX and Coursera). And I would make the argument that the actual learning happens when you solve exercises, not when you watch a free video, unfortunately. 😕

[johnwarmour]

As I mentioned in my initial comment above, they changed their policy for all courses in the beginning of the year (see the link I provided). Here is an explanation from their own Help Center.

From your link: "If the upgrade option no longer appears or if you do not wish to or are unable to pay, you may instead enroll again in a future session. "

Sounds like it's still free, you just change enrollment date.

[gamstc]

"A future session" on edX means a session that is likely to start within a year or two...

[gamstc]

Here is another example about Coursera: If you look at the comment section, the latest comments from 2019 start describing more and more courses that don't offer the audit option anymore.