MOOCs
3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2018 by Geoff Ralston · across every show →
Everything said about MOOCs, oldest first
Aug 7, 2018
Jun 19, 2019 negative
Rossmann: Most potential top software engineers are not natural autodidacts
“I'm now certain that like the majority of people who could be a great software engineer at a really competitive and selective company the majority of those people are not by default autodidacts who could just go to a MOOC and get all the information they need.”
Jun 19, 2019 negative
Rossmann: MOOCs have an industry standard completion rate of 2% to 5%
“And if you look at Courses that are kind of self-serve, like the MOOCs, you see that it's industry standard to have two, three, four, five percent completion rates, meaning that probably 95% of people are actually not a fit for the type of education that is au…”