Hey #AcademicTwitter how do interpret online courses on people's CVs?
E.g., if a student/postdoc's CV says: "I did X online course" — do you consider it the same as/better/worse than an equivalent module in a university degree?
Please reply with your rationale too if possible!
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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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