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MOOCs are totally fucking worthless. Never take one. I am taking Stanford's introductory machine learning course, and I have realized it's totally fucking worthless. I'm going to complete it anyway because it interests me. Unless you have to go to a physical building and write an exam, it's a waste of time and money. Now I will explain why.
You can cheat your way through the entire course and all of the marking is automated, even the programming assignments. Furthermore, you have to get at least 80% of stuff to progress to the next assignment or quiz, so there is a huge incentive to just plagiarize. Every single quiz and assignment is on GitHub. A retard who knows ctrl C + ctrl V could just google every single question and get 100%.
I would never hire someone whose education was exclusively from MOOCs. If you never sit down in a supervised environment to write a paper exam, there is absolutely no guarantee you learned a goddamned thing.
Stanford is evil for making this course, because it's just a tax on desperate third world students looking to pad their resumes. I'm not one of them, but I pity them, because 100 USD is a lot of money in South Asia. They should be banned from charging for MOOCs.
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>you can cheat your way through the entire course
MOOCs aren't even for a grade in most cases, and you can't earn a degree with them. They are there for you to teach yourself. That's what college should be about, in reality but the situation has gotten complex there.
You cheated yourself.
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what if i already have a master's degree in math, and am seeking some sort of formal qualification to move to a career in machine learning without the time and expense of a full on degree
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>>8749102
>You cheated yourself.
You're so stupid. The point of education is to get better jobs, not mental masturbation. No one else has to take your MOOC course seriously under any circumstances, just like when you beat off to porn.
>>8749106
>formal qualification
It's not a formal qualification, and it never will be, because employers know that you could write a fucking JavaScript bot to pass the course.
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Textbooks too. One time I just copied every answer from the solutions manual without even reading the chapters or problems. Then I said I read it and recommended the book on /sci/.
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>>8749108
well, writing such a bot would demonstrate a fairly solid level of programming knowledge, I'd think, which is exactly what I am trying to establish as my degrees are in math and not computer science
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>>8749131
>writing such a bot would demonstrate a fairly solid level of programming knowledge
It actually wouldn't. You wouldn't need anything more than simple regex.
>>8749131
>I am trying to establish as my degrees are in math and not computer science
What do you mean "you're trying to establish your degree"? Are you in uni or not? What year are you in? Shouldn't you be studying for finals right now?
No one cares about your MOOCs.
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>>8749083
t. disgruntled university bureaucrat realizing that he'll lose his job once the accreditation issue for MOOCs is figured out within the next 2-3 years
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