Re:New deep learning course by Andrew Ng
by sgslo on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:24PM
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Its a business, do you not expect them to somehow collect revenue on products they have created?
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The basic problem is that Coursera wasn't successful in attaching some meaningful value to their certificates as credentials. And, if the credential isn't meaningful, why on earth would I want to pay a VC-funded company for a PDF that has zero value to me? Taking the course may be worthwhile but a certificate adds essentially nothing to that.
So now they've effectively eliminated just about the only thing that distinguishes them from some YouTube videos and a textbook.
The basic problem is that Coursera wasn't successful in attaching some meaningful value to their certificates as credentials.
The EdX solution to this is that their courses are all endorsed or run by brick-and-mortar universities with considerable investments in their brand that they won't want to tarnish by attaching it to any random certificate.
I'm not sure to what degree EdX has really "solved" this. My impression is there's quite of range of quality and rigor on EdX as well. And, more centrally, most people still don't see EdX certificates as general substitutes for more conventional educational degrees.
Not a degree sure but many e.g. XSeries and MicroMasters are at the level of diplomas.
Re:New deep learning course by Andrew Ng
by Blackthorn on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:50AM
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They've created the courses? Seems to me like it's the professors teaching them that created them. What value is Coursera adding?