Coursera’s Preview Mode
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#2is edX still free for auditing?
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#3Simple idea.. delivers value. Gets a monetary evaluation. The product is already too good.. water down the product and paywall what was previously free. All too common of an internet story
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#4> MOOCs never achieved the transformative potential promised during the early hype.
I would disagree, I saw a lot of people, especially in the Data Science field that got up-skilled by back then free Coursera.
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#5> MOOCs never achieved the transformative potential promised during the early hype. I would disagree, I saw a lot of people, especially in the Data Science field that got up-skilled by back then free Coursera.
I both agree and disagree.
In the early days, Coursera was transformative. I took some amazing courses and learned a lot.
...but the vision was always automation and as courses were rerun, the instructors were more likely to be disengaged, and live interaction via the forums fell. Finally when courses went to ongoing enrollment, there were no longer cohorts, and the experience was a correspondence course.
So in the end it was not transformative. It is pretty much just Youtube plus a website plus a payment platform. A less expensive, less interactive, unaccredited version of Phoenix University.
There's nothing wrong with teachers getting paid. It is the standard model. But of course the standard model is the standard model, not transformative.
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#6Simple idea.. delivers value. Gets a monetary evaluation. The product is already too good.. water down the product and paywall what was previously free. All too common of an internet story
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#7Simple idea.. delivers value. Gets a monetary evaluation. The product is already too good.. water down the product and paywall what was previously free. All too common of an internet story
Enshitification because greed.
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#8It's the customary bait and switch.
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#9is edX still free for auditing?
I haven't logged in edX in long time but as per this article it is no longer free.
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#10Never took off because employees care zero that you took a Coursera class. Might as well watch YouTube videos or take local community college classes.