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Re:Online Learning Platzi (YC W15) Gives You Useful Tech Ski... by freddier on Friday March 20, 2015 @10:51PM (#9241700)
In the tech industry (design, marketing, programming) we're seeing that companies don't care about credentials when they see an awesome portfolio. Google VP of People Ops said they no longer care about GPAs [1]

On the other hand, one of our students from Spain managed to convince his university to validate one of our courses as credits. So I don't know. But the trend is towards projects > diplomas.

(However, for papers, that's gonna take a while)

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-ho...

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Re:Online Learning Platzi (YC W15) Gives You Useful Tech Ski... by mikermcneil on Saturday March 21, 2015 @11:35AM (#9243007)
yeah that's truly incredible. If I'd spent the first two years of my university education learning from a tool like Platzi, I'd be in an incredible place. Can't wait for @freddier to redo the badass "intro to programming course" in English so I can show it to a few folks I know who struggled to adapt to formal CS education
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Re:Online Learning Platzi (YC W15) Gives You Useful Tech Ski... by spiritplumber on Friday March 20, 2015 @11:49PM (#9241804)
That's awesome news!
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