Stanford Engineering Everywhere
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Stanford Engineering Everywhere, or SEE is an initiative started by Stanford University
to offer some of its courses free online. SEE's main program was funded by Sequoia Capital
where it offers instructional videos, reading lists and assignments. The portal is designed to assist both the students and teachers across the world. This is similar to initiatives like MIT OpenCourseWare
, where some of the courses are available for viewing for the online students community at no charge.
, including three course introductory sequence from computer science
. The courses offered are from the fields of databases, artificial intelligence
and computer programming
. The students can register and view the courses, raise queries and submit assignments online. Some of the courses are divided into "basic" and "advanced" categories.
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
to offer some of its courses free online. SEE's main program was funded by Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a Californian venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms", and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms"...
where it offers instructional videos, reading lists and assignments. The portal is designed to assist both the students and teachers across the world. This is similar to initiatives like MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, partly free and openly available to anyone, anywhere. MIT OpenCourseWare is a large-scale, web-based publication of...
, where some of the courses are available for viewing for the online students community at no charge.
Project
SEE is initially offering ten courses from the Stanford School of EngineeringStanford University School of Engineering
Stanford University School of Engineering is one of the schools of Stanford University. The school has had eight deans; the current is James D. Plummer.-Previous Deans:# Theodore J. Hoover 1925-1936# Samuel B. Morris 1936-1944...
, including three course introductory sequence from computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
. The courses offered are from the fields of databases, artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
and computer programming
Computer programming
Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a...
. The students can register and view the courses, raise queries and submit assignments online. Some of the courses are divided into "basic" and "advanced" categories.