Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim

Re:Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U... by StefanBatory on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @03:54PM (#41372215)

There are some people there who are good; but most of the courses there are quite bad. Which ones you tried, if I may ask? I'm curious.

I remember being both Neil Cummings and Max Schwarzmueller courses to be good, but I did them some time ago and when I was never to web development.

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Re:Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U... by hilux on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @04:19PM (#41372503)

You mean - on Coursera?

There was a Python course offered by three profs at Rice University that was A+.

Similar for Dan Ariely's Behavioral Economics class - of course, maybe it was all lies (now it turns out), but entertaining nevertheless.

Andrew Ng's course is quite math-heavy (I haven't done it), but it gets rave reviews.

So many Coursera tech/CS courses are offered by profs at elite universities - there's no way they could be the kind of crap that is standard on Udemy.

What Coursera lacks (compared to the university experience) is personal interaction with a real professor, group projects with smart and focused classmates, and personalized feedback.

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Re:Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U... by StefanBatory on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:11AM (#41377561)

Ah, sorry. I meant for Udemy - I've no real experience with Coursera.

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