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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by dccoolgai on Friday June 20, 2014 @06:16PM (#7923204)
Thatks where I see huge potential for disruption to higher ed; I think some trusted or recognized source will make a lot of money by offering credentialing... I saw something about 'nanodegrees' from Udacity (or one of those). When the situation reaches the tipping point where it's a signal of mental paucity that you decided to take on 200k of debt for something you could have gotten for a lot less, I wonder what will happen...or how close we are to that point.
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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by sitkack on Friday June 20, 2014 @08:16PM (#7923578)
So we could have a startup that administers 3 day quals and hands out a degree based on passing our rigorous tests? Like passing the bar but from a private firm giving a certification, the education is on your own.
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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by prostoalex on Saturday June 21, 2014 @12:54AM (#7924236)
There's a bunch of testing centers owned by companies like Sylvan or Prometric and used for professional certification courses by companies like Microsoft and Oracle.
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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by walesmd on Friday June 20, 2014 @08:33PM (#7923645)
Udacity Nano Degrees: https://www.udacity.com/nanodegrees
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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by FLUX-YOU on Saturday June 21, 2014 @04:12AM (#7924467)
It's looking like the kind of pilot program we need to get more enterprising self-taught people into dev interviews: backed by big companies to instill faith in the smaller companies, teaching new/relevant skills, capstone project to show off and discuss in an interview.

It does cost though ($200/month), which can be significant out-of-pocket if you're in a low-paying job, and you may not need whatever service that $200 buys you. It's unclear what that goes to, but I'm assuming it's to the coaches.

Still better than American university prices

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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by keithpeter on Saturday June 21, 2014 @06:02AM (#7924611)
Wrap a tutor contact service - sort of Uber for teaching - so that when candidates need a bit of one to one or to have a small group seminar about an especially tricky part of a given online course they can.

You then have something close to the original Universities around 1100 ad or so!

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