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Launched!
As of today, March 11th 2013, the free online interactive 3D graphics course I’ve been working on has begun, at last. I’ve been laboring in earnest and more than full time on this class since October...
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MOOC Expelliarmus
I spent a few minutes last week skimming through my unread stack of “Communications of the ACM” (CACM) – they were piling up. I enjoy the lighter articles for the most part, especially those on...
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Dinner Bell, Dinner Bell, Ring!
OK, the obscure title can mean any of the following: We launched the Interactive 3D Graphics MOOC last Monday, and dinner follows launch. I’m feverishly working on the second half of the course (today...
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490 links for 70 days
I like to give 7 links for a day, but I’ve been busy the past half year or so with the interactive 3D graphics MOOC. In two days the second half of the course will roll out, and I’ll blab about that...
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Please stop revealing this “dirty little secret”
OK, this post is most definitely non-graphical, but I need to rant a bit. While I wait for the last few elements of the MOOC I worked on to be released, I’ve been reading various opinions on MOOCs....
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“Interactive 3D Rendering” is finally complete!
Short version: the Interactive 3D Graphics course is now entirely out, the last five units have been added: Lights, Cameras, Texturing, Shader Programming, Animation. Massive (22K people registered so...
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Good points, some bad points
The recently and sadly departed Game Developer magazine had a great post-mortem article format of “5 things that went right/went wrong” with some videogame, by its creators. I thought I’d try one...
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512 and counting
I noticed I reached a milestone number of postings today, 512 answers posted to the online Intro to 3D Graphics course. Admittedly, some are replies to questions such as “how is your voice so dull?”...
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Want to learn computer graphics using WebGL from a MOOC during the summer? Learn for free from a master, Ed Angel, at Coursera.
View ArticleHumblebrag on the third anniversary of the MOOC
I just realized today that it’s been three years since the 3D Interactive Graphics MOOC came out. It’s still chugging along, surprisingly enough, getting about 35 signups a day. Of course, completion...
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