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All Stanford Online courses delayed until further notice.
- cracadumi 15y agoI dropped my university and moved to Paraguay to take these classes. They'd better fix this problem...
- waterlesscloud 15y agoAnyone know the story behind this delay?
- iamabhi9 15y agoThey cite administrative reasons in the email but no professor or teaching staff has said anything in the open. The twitter accounts of the classes did not say anything clear regarding the reasons.
- teeray 15y ago*cite
- droithomme 15y agoNotably, "Administrative" is not "technical". It suggests bureaucracy issues. I'm a bit paranoid that "administrative" issues are that the school lawyers went crazy and are demanding a system of ID validation and micropayments.
- karlzt 15y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3492031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3492031 AFAIK computer science 101 is the only one that didn't send email.
- snegu 15y agoHCI has also not sent an email, and their website says the class will start on January 30.
- th0ma5 15y agoI too have received this email for a couple of classes that I signed up for, but I have yet to see any other information than this, so the title seems a little premature, at least in phrasing it this tersely, which implies that there is some kind of insurmountable problem, but really there is just no more information.
- warmfuzzykitten 15y agoApparently "all" is an exaggeration, but I have received similar emails from the two courses I signed up for. The telltale paragraph seems to be "Unfortunately, there are still a few administrative i's to dot and t's to cross." So the problem isn't technical, it's likely political.
- farmerliao 15y agoI got one of these as well, from the Algorithm course. Word for word.
- a7x 15y agoMaybe this could be related to the fact that Prof Sebastian Thrun left his tenure job to start his own set of courses . Surely sounds an administrative issue