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This definitely wasn't in my 2024 bingo card. What does Accenture (or for that matter Udacity) have to gain from this acquisition?
Now that Sebastian Thrun has succeeded at replacing all American universities with Udacity, he can focus fully on self-driving cars... or little electric aircraft for rich people... or whatever it is that is his next innovation that is guaranteed to succeed by the gullible tech press.
Feels more than a little sad that they just get acquired by a multinational.
Now that Sebastian Thrun has succeeded at replacing all American universities with Udacity, he can focus fully on self-driving cars... or little electric aircraft for rich people... or whatever it is that is his next innovation that is guaranteed to succeed by the gullible tech press.
Out of all the hyped fads on HN a decade ago, MOOCs have fallen even harder than drone startups. What happened to disrupting the overpriced hollow credentialism of higher education?
I paid over $1,000 for one of their “nanodegree” programs. After it ended, they had the nerve to lock all the content, including all my notes and submissions as well as course content like videos and such. I highly recommend anyone avoid them.
I paid over $1,000 for one of their “nanodegree” programs. After it ended, they had the nerve to lock all the content, including all my notes and submissions as well as course content like videos and such. I highly recommend anyone avoid them.
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> An actual MIT degree vs classes taken at MIT OpenCourseware is orders of magnitude more significant. Most people are not autodidacts, so this would be a common perception even without the credentialism.
Pretty much. I feel that most people fall in the category of "it would be nice to have these skills", but they aren't necessarily willing to pay the sacrifice in time and investment for it. Same applies for school really, yeah it would nice if I got an A for algorithmic game theory, and maybe the concepts are kinda interesting from a general level, but the nitty gritty is way too complex and painful for me to put bey…
This seems to put much on any given individual having some necessary bit set which isn’t really how people work.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> An actual MIT degree vs classes taken at MIT OpenCourseware is orders of magnitude more significant. Most people are not autodidacts, so this would be a common perception even without the credentialism.
Pretty much. I feel that most people fall in the category of "it would be nice to have these skills", but they aren't necessarily willing to pay the sacrifice in time and investment for it. Same applies for school really, yeah it would nice if I got an A for algorithmic game theory, and maybe the concepts are kinda interesting from a general level, but the nitty gritty is way too complex and painful for me to put bey…
This is unfortunate to see. I remember when these alt-Ed startups were all the rage and there was a genuine belief that we were on the cusp of a paradigm shift in how we learned. Would love to hear some success stories if anyone has any!
I then tried to learn compilers on something Standford has called LaGunita or whatever and it was closed while I was studying it (and it never worked properly). But I wouldn't finish that course anyway, compilers are hard.
I paid over $1,000 for one of their “nanodegree” programs. After it ended, they had the nerve to lock all the content, including all my notes and submissions as well as course content like videos and such. I highly recommend anyone avoid them.