Learn for Free

Not just technical skills...


Coursera is one of my favorite places to learn a new topic or even expand my horizons on topics with which I am already familiar.  The pacing of a real class structure, with weekly lectures and homework, applies just enough pressure to keep me motivated throughout the class and permits just enough flexibility to fit it into my real-life schedule.

Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.

https://www.coursera.org/




I believe this is a trend we will continue to advance as more and more colleges and universities open up classes for free.

Open.Michigan is a University of Michigan initiative that enables faculty, students, and others to share their educational resources and research with the global learning community.

http://open.umich.edu/

Software Defined Networking (SDN) class at Coursera

Looking forward to this class starting May 25th, 2015:

https://www.coursera.org/course/sdn

Software Defined Networking

About the Course

This course introduces software defined networking, an emerging paradigm in computer networking that allows a logically centralized software program to control the behavior of an entire network. 

Separating a network's control logic from the underlying physical routers and switches that forward traffic allows network operators to write high-level control programs that specify the behavior of an entire network, in contrast to conventional networks, whereby network operators must codify functionality in terms of low-level device configuration. 

Logically centralized network control makes it possible for operators to specify more complex tasks that involve integrating many disjoint network functions (e.g., security, resource control, prioritization) into a single control framework, allowing network operators to create more sophisticated policies, and making network configurations easier to configure, manage, troubleshoot, and debug.