Web Intelligence and Big Data

The last ten weeks I’ve been taking the course Web Intelligence and Big Data on Coursera. Coursera is a company founded by two Stanford professors that works together with renowned universities to offer their courses online. Students take classes in the form of short videos, they answer quizzes, make homeworks and finally complete an exam. Whether or not it will disrupt higher education in the sense that its founders intended, this new method of learning is certainly a great way to polish up some long-forgotten knowledge or to get an introduction to a new field.