<story><title>Stanford &quot;Intro to AI&quot; course to be offered online for free</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>Previously (with discussion): &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2824780&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2824780&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Stanford &quot;Intro to AI&quot; course to be offered online for free</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steverb</author><text>I can&apos;t wait to see how well this works out. If the results are good it could put another nail in the coffin for classroom only education.&lt;p&gt;Although I foresee a lot of those that register for the free online course dropping out. Most people won&apos;t put a high enough value on a free class, especially if they&apos;re not getting credit.</text></comment>