Dhawal Shah is creator of Class Central, a popular search engine for online courses.

Dhawal talk about the history of online courses and the Massive Open Online Course revolution of the early 2010s. We also talk about his childhood growing up in India, and how his life changed one day when he won a computer from a Cartoon Network sweepstakes.

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Links we discussed:

Dhawal's article: Here are 850+ Ivy League Courses You Can Take Right Now for Free: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/

Dhawal's article: I uncovered 1700 Coursera Courses that Are Still Completely Free: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-courses-6d84cdb30da/

Dhawal on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhawalhshah

Dhawal's 3 recommended Massive Open Online Courses:

- Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects: https://www.classcentral.com/course/learning-how-to-learn-2161

- University of Alberta's Mountains 101 Course: https://www.classcentral.com/course/mountains-101-7455

- Stanford's Data Structures and Algorithms Course: https://www.classcentral.com/course/algorithms-18869

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