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Re:John Doerr: Coursera 'Could Be Big The Way Google Was' by pitt1980 on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @07:28AM (#4316671)
yeah this,

if your not getting credit, what does the name brand mean?

some people may get a kick out of taking a 'Stanford' class (myself included, I took the original AI class)

those people will get discouraged quick if they go through the whole class and don't have a good outlet for that knowledge

I see two potential outlets, 1 something to put on your resume that will get you a job,

or 2, specific knowledge that will let you complete cool, even marketable project independent of a resume line

1 is a tricky proposition for these classes, until if figures that out, whoever figures 2 out will be the winner

I went all the way through the AI class, even got over 90%, I felt like I understood a decent amount of theory, still a ways from actually being able to go out and complete a project on my own

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