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Re:CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum... by rz2k on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:52PM (#34815187)
That seemed like the future ten years ago, but my impression is that the trend has gone the other way. There were a lot of really buzzy courses back then, but the communities don't seem motivated in the same way any more, with a large portion of the students now in pursuit of a certificate rather than intellectually curious. I also think that the reason that many of the popular early courses disappeared, wasn't just that they wee out of date, but that university administrations began to worry that they were giving too much away.

It's also possible that online learning during the pandemic has ended up making online learning in general seem unpleasant.

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Re:CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum... by password11 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:55AM (#34815570)
> but that university administrations began to worry that they were giving too much away.

Personally: in industry, in various software companies I've met about 10-15 grads from Harvard, MIT, and CMU. From meeting them, I assure you that they're just average people, just as dumb as you or I, and that the administration has no great secrets to give away.

At least, not to give away to the average student. Maybe I only met the rejects...

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Re:CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum... by ghaff on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:39AM (#34820059)
>It's also possible that online learning during the pandemic has ended up making online learning in general seem unpleasant.

MOOCs seemed to have outlived their novelty value since before the pandemic rolled around. The fact that paywalls were added to some content and schools probably lost a certain amount of interest as well didn't help.

But of course the pandemic did add a huge amount of (mostly uncurated) video content to the commons.

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