Online typically means candidate sought it out for themselves => intrinsic motivation, proactive learner. Online can mean less peer discussion, content not aligned with other knowledge, low stakes assessment => weak retention, poor connection. CV => starting point for interview
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Absolutely, I was wondering how you/I might weight these.
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So much implicit in this question! Would "we" accept an online coding course before taking on a UG student for a project (absolutely), before taking them on a coding-heavy masters (maybe?), a PhD (perhaps, if there's enough time to train them as well), as a postdoc (NO!).
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And there's obviously layers and generalizations there as well. I will readily admit that the assumptions I make from how people list such courses aren't at all consistent, and a lot revolves around how I think the course reflects my values (too much to unpack in a tweet).
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Agreed but I had to ask somehow.
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I’ve done both myself and while I’ve learnt a lot from online courses the depth and quality varies a lot - sure it also varies on taught courses but the quality of these at least is typically assessed in some way.
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I've never fully done an online course except occasionally viewing lectures. I have a hunch that the online courses though can be quite strange/tough for self-motivation based on what I know from others.
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I learnt how to write experiments on MATLAB using lecture slides that were available online for psychtoolbox (a MATLAB toolbox for writing experiments in psychology). However, if I was to write that in a CV I would phrase it as 'self-learnt'.But then I don't think taking a course
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whether it's online or in person is interesting in itself. It's interesting to know what you've learnt. E.g. looking at a CV that says they did a course where they used MATLAB does not suggest to me that they know MATLAB.
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100% agreed.
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I imagine on a CV I would weight it as worse simply because the floor for achievement is a lot lower - but if I knew the person, there are some people who I know who I would expect to get more from an online course than a taught one!
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That's a legit bias though.
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for sure. i am not involved in hiring, but broadly i would tend to ignore qualifications versus eg portfolio material in the areas i would be interested in - i know too many people with bad degrees/quals who are super productive and incredibly good!
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a friend of mine who had always been a very weak student at school ended up doing computer science at edinburgh: he had to retake a year because he kept failing a maths course. he found an mit lecture series on that area and went from failing to getting the top 1st in his year
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I always wonder how many people are in the position he was in before he found the material that would let him "get it". it's rather asymmetric: you only need to understand something once...!
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I have had similar problems myself so I totally get it.
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I have done many
@coursera courses for fun. I've found the assessment aspect of those courses to be very poor, even if the lectures/content was excellent. So there is little information conveyed by an online course on a CV, even if the student learnt a great deal. -
That's a worry, true.
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It depends on content and material taught, as well as the method(s) of delivering the course/module, but as a module can be fancy sounding and end up being useless because of what's taught and how it's taught, an online course can be the same.
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I said equivalent to compel you to assume the quality is comparable, but I guess if you think the quality is not comparable because people react/behave differently then you could argue there is no such thing as actually comparable. I probably think that too. Does that make sense?
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Yup. A lot of people take online courses as not as serious as modules, and I've seen people who took a course claim they've mastered the topic. A lot of them have marking, but it's peer marking, so unless someone knows what they're doing it has the potential to turn bad.
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