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"Enrollment is Closed We are sorry"

Yeah me too. Coursera = MCOC = Massively Closed Offline Course.

Imagine wikipedia only allowing people to view the "Scala" page between the hours of 7:30 and 8:30 on alternate tuesdays, otherwise you're outta luck, for completely arbitrary reason.

Very unimpressed with the MOOC trend. Bring back MIT OCW where I can download and watch video lectures whenever I want, forever.

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You can't compare time-based courses to general information provider like wikipedia. Providing content of previously offered courses is controlled by colleges/instructors [1]

[1] http://help.coursera.org/customer/portal/articles/572218-can...

When did they take that down? Thankfully I got the material for the course I was working through downloaded. Why would they do that?

If you were enrolled before just go to your courses page, find fp course and go to archive of your class (with all the content, problem sets, forums, etc).

Would it be okay/possible to post the materials online? I'd be interested in going through the course.

The course material is still available, although you'll need to sign up for a Coursera account. It also looks like they're running another course in March 2013.

https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index

Weird, when I click that link I'm asked to login. When I login it says to check out other courses.

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