Coursera

Coursera
URL	https://www.coursera.org/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
Status	Special case
Archiving status	In progress...
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	coursera-grab
Project tracker	coursera
IRC channel	#cursera (on hackint)

Coursera is a company that offers MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) for free.

On June 30th, 2016, Coursera will switch to a new platform, which will result in the removal of 472 courses. Guides have been distributed to save these old courses.

Someone has created a Google Docs spreadsheet with a list of the courses on the old stack and links which may be useful.

Announcement

"Maintaining two platforms requires significant resources, and in order to focus all of our efforts on further improving the new platform experience, we decided last year to move all active courses to the new platform. Over the past several months, we have worked closely with our partners to transition their courses to the new platform. Last week, we emailed learners who have taken courses on our old platform to notify them that access to the old platform will end on June 30, 2016.

There are a few dozen courses on the old platform that will not migrate to the new platform, and thus will not be available after June 30th. These include courses that are out of date (e.g., medicine and technology courses that do not reflect recent research and development breakthroughs), courses that have been updated and relaunched under another title on the new platform, and a few courses that our university partners have chosen to discontinue for other reasons."

How can I help?

Running a Warrior

You can start up a Warrior and there select Coursera. (If you don't really care what you are archiving, select ArchiveTeam's Choice instead, as at some points ArchiveTeam may priorize another project.)

Running the script manually

If you use Linux and you're a bit familiar with it, you can try running the script directly.

The instructions can be found at github.com/ArchiveTeam/coursera-grab.

Some additional information

Don't forget to replace YOURNICKHERE with your nickname. The number after --concurrent determines how many threads run at the same time. You can increase this number if your resources (RAM, CPU, bandwidth) are sufficient. However, if you constantly see messages about rate limiting, there is no need to increase the concurrency. If you want to stop the script, please do it gracefully if possible. To do so, create an empty file named STOP in the folder of the script (terminal command: touch STOP). The script finishes the current item(s) and stops only after that. (If you kill the script immediately, the items get broken, and they will need to be reassigned to another user.) – Before starting the script again, don't forget to remove the STOP file. If you see "Project code is out of date", kill the script, go to its folder (cd coursera-grab) and issue git pull https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/coursera-grab. After the updating has finished, re-launch the script.

Donating to the Internet Archive

Content downloaded by the ArchiveTeam will be uploaded to the Internet Archive, where it will be stored and be available – hopefully – forever. However, storing it costs thousands of dollars in the long run. So, if you can afford, please consider donating to the Internet Archive, so that this piece of history can be kept for us all. http://archive.org/donate

Do you like our cause?

If you want to help in other projects, want to learn more about ArchiveTeam, or even help in development in general, navigate to the Main Page of this wiki, from there you can reach a lot of information. The Team consists of volunteers working on the projects in their free time, so helping hands (and resources) are always welcome.