So, I've updated the Completed, Current, and Upcoming courses pages.
Not much to say, except it's noteworthy that my upcoming planning is heavily Courserized. My beginnings in the MOOC world were through edX, and I still prefer its linear approach (resources are arranged in chronological order, while on Coursera they're arranged by resource type) and richer exercise types (formula entry, molecule editors, etc. go well beyond Coursera's simple quizzes and peer-reviewed essays). But while the first courses I've taken from Coursera have been a bit disappointing, I've take a couple great ones since, and after a while I've warmed up to the platform (and its much, much better forum software). Although in reality, what's importance is the vastness and breadth of the course catalog: Coursera's is what, five or six times larger than edX? So, being interested in a somewhat limited range of topics (bio, data analysis, comp. sci, with occasional forays into economics) I'm finding that I've, well, “exhausted the edX catalog” isn't the right term, but conveys the right impression − what I mean is that there are many more courses on Coursera that I'm interested in, and that's purely an artefact of numbers.
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