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Re:After Decades of Growth, Colleges Find It’s Survival of t... by ForHackernews on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:07AM (#16430427)
Counterpoint: Ng's Coursera machine learning course is outdated now, unlikely to ever be updated, and focuses on applications of old algorithms without teaching the underlying fundamentals.
Re:After Decades of Growth, Colleges Find It’s Survival of t... by avs733 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:12AM (#16430480)
appeal to theory: The issue with education is rarely the currency of content. To assert that models education primarily as an information transfer process, which it isn't...or at least shouldn't be.