You pay $490 and get what exactly? Afaikt the business model is, pay $490 to get exactly the same level of treatment as someone who does not pay a cent but with a piece of paper you can print out confirming you are not a liar?… If it offered credit, that would be one thing, but the fact that is doesn’t is quite telling .(I guess it is impressive that coursera has found a way to print out “certificates” with the John Hopkins logo on even though no-one from John Hopkins will ever see or interact with any of the students though) You don’t get any feedback or assessment, you just get some added signalling value. Still—the courses look interesting if pretty basic.
You don’t get any feedback or assessment, you just get some added signalling value.
Yes, you pay money for signalling.
What’s wrong with that?
Even with my current studies, if I need help with a specific issue I don’t walk to the TA but put the problem up on stackoverflow or another stackexchange website. I don’t need university staff to learn something but I need the university for signaling.
You pay $490 and get what exactly? Afaikt the business model is, pay $490 to get exactly the same level of treatment as someone who does not pay a cent but with a piece of paper you can print out confirming you are not a liar?… If it offered credit, that would be one thing, but the fact that is doesn’t is quite telling .(I guess it is impressive that coursera has found a way to print out “certificates” with the John Hopkins logo on even though no-one from John Hopkins will ever see or interact with any of the students though) You don’t get any feedback or assessment, you just get some added signalling value. Still—the courses look interesting if pretty basic.
Yes, you pay money for signalling. What’s wrong with that?
Even with my current studies, if I need help with a specific issue I don’t walk to the TA but put the problem up on stackoverflow or another stackexchange website. I don’t need university staff to learn something but I need the university for signaling.
Including signaling “thanks” to the university. :-)